Tag: RECs
Critical Issues in the Negotiations of the Continental Free Trade Area
02 Mar 16 PublicationsOn 15 June 2015, the African Union Assembly launched the negotiations to establish the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017. Experience of existing Free Trade Areas (FTAs)&nb...
2016 Conference of Ministers: Towards an integrated and coherent approach to implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Agenda 2063 and the SDGs
01 Mar 16 NewsMinisterial Conference
The Ninth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Pla...
Mobilizing African resources for Agenda 2063
09 Feb 16 NewsA question of capacity
Discussions for the UN Agenda 2030 have set high expectations for domestic resource mobilisation as a self-sustaining development finance strategy. Agenda 2...
Commissioner Acyl articulates the dire need for Africa’s structural transformation in line with the Agenda 2063
03 Feb 16 NewsThe Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission (AUC) held a press briefing on 27 January 2016 on the margins of the 26th African Union Summit of Heads of S...
AU Ministerial Retreat of the Executive Council brainstorms on the implementation of Agenda 2063
25 Jan 16 NewsMembers of African Union (AU) Executive Council converged in the Tigray region of Mekelle, on 24 January 2016, within the framework of their third Ministerial Retreat, holding unde...
Trade, Industry and Infrastructure in Africa: A Summary of the Paper-Trail from 2008-2015
20 Jan 16 PublicationsAlthough the idea that Africa’s next stage in development requires industrialization is decades old, the current process of linking industrialization to the continent’s trade r...
AU and RECs discuss border management
26 Nov 15 NewsRepresentatives from Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and the African Union Border Programme (AUBP) met in Zambia to discuss Border Management in Africa.
This was the second m...
AUC and RECs harmonizing their M&E systems of the first Ten Year Implementation Plan of the Agenda 2063
23 Nov 15 NewsThe technical meeting of the African Union Commission (AUC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on the convergence of Mo...
Intra-African trade and Africa Regional Integration Index: Progress report on intra-African trade
16 Nov 15 NewsA regional integration agenda has been part of Africa’s strategy for economic transformation for more than three decades, and in some cases for almost a century.
African leaders...
WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade: Request for observer status by ARSO and IGAD
27 Oct 15 NewsRequest for observer status by the African Organization for Standardization (ARSO) to the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade: Submission from Uganda
The delegation ...
General Assembly praises African Union’s Agenda 2063, post-2015 sustainable development goals as comprehensive blueprint for Africa’s advancement
19 Oct 15 NewsSpeakers praised the African Union’s ambitious 50-year “Agenda 2063”, which together with its first 10-year implementation plan, the Addis Ababa funding scheme, and the ...
Background note on Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want
13 Oct 15 NewsThe Foundation of Africa Union Agenda 2063
Fifty years after the first thirty-three (33) independent African states gathered in Addis Ababa to form the Organization of African Uni...
First African Maritime Conference resolves to request the AU to consider “A Single African Maritime Transport Market” among the Agenda 2063 flagship projects
13 Oct 15 NewsUnderstanding the opportunities and challenges and making the African Maritime a reality is a must, if Africa aspires to a better and secured future in the context of Agenda 2063. ...
Africa’s trade relations: Old friends, good friends and new friends
07 Oct 15 PublicationsAfrican countries’ trading relationships have been changing in recent years. Trade with their traditional trading partners, the European Union and the United States (their ‘old...
Helen Clark: Speech at the UN GA Side Event, “Towards TICAD VI: Africa’s Transformation through Industrial Development and Agenda 2063”
29 Sep 15 NewsThe TICAD VI High-Level pre-event was held on the margins of the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA, on 28 September 2015. The objective was to discuss Afri...
Trade Remedies as part of the Continental Free Trade Area
10 Sep 15 PublicationsThis paper discusses the possibilities for including suitable trade remedies provisions as part of the Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), which will be negotiated in order to...
Signed Agreement Establishing a Tripartite Free Trade Area Among COMESA, the EAC and SADC
01 Jul 15 NewsThe Heads of State and Government of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) met ...
AU Declaration on 2015 Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development Towards Africa’s Agenda 2063
25 Jun 15 NewsWe, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, having met at our Twenty Fifth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 14 to 1...
25th Assembly of the African Union Commits to Mainstreaming Women as the Continent begins to Implement Agenda 2063
19 Jun 15 NewsHeads of State and Government of the 54 member states of the African Union (AU) met in Johannesburg, South Africa from the 14th to 15th June. The Assembly meeting was the last in t...
ECOWAS lags as other RECs seal pact on CFTA
18 Jun 15 NewsPreparatory to the 2017 establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in Africa, three Regional Economic Communities (RECs) – the Common Market for Eastern and Southern A...