Aide-memoire : committee on regional cooperation and integration Ninth session Addis Ababa, 7 – 9 December 2015

Abstract

The eighth session of CRCI had focused on concrete policy actions and measures required to enhance progress in trade, regional cooperation and integration, and ensure that Africa advances in its transformative agenda. The meeting reiterated continued support on both the Action Plan for Boosting Intra African Trade, and the envisaged establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), thereby paving the way for the establishment of the African Common Market and the African Economic Community in accordance with the vision of the Abuja Treaty. The ninth session will therefore have as its theme “Enhancing Productive Integration for Africa’s Structural Transformation” and thus provide a platform for member States to deliberate on this topical and important issue, including ways and means of promoting and accelerating productive integration and its ancillary components of trade and market integration, economic diversification, competitiveness, infrastructure, regional and continental value chains development, and the financing and investments needed to meet these strategic objectives.