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NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade
Up one levelThe community of practice under this thematic area will reflect the consistently stated desire of African countries for greater integration of the continent and within the global economy. ECA has been supporting the process of regional integration as part of Africa’s strategy for economic transformation and for integration into the global economy. In this critical area, ECA will monitor progress in integration-building capacities for implementing the Abuja Treaty for Establishing the African Economic Community, promoting NEPAD initiatives particularly in infrastructure development, sectoral issues, and peer learning. ECA’s commitment to the strengthening of infrastructure on the continent lies in its strong belief that sound interregional and overseas transport and communications contribute to the facilitation, promotion and expansion of international and intra-regional trade.
Support to NEPAD/AU
In its capacity as the regional arm of the UN, ECA has been assigned the responsibility of coordinating the United Nations support to AU/NEPAD at the regional and sub-regional levels. In that regard, the role of ECA aims at facilitating the coordination of the United Nations system-wide support to the implementation of NEPAD and other related programmes and initiatives at the regional and subregional levels, using the frameworks of ECA in the subregions, the regional economic communities, the thematic clusters under the United Nations action plans in support of NEPAD.
Regional Integration
Regional integration and infrastructure are priority areas of NEPAD; hence, this service line will handle related issues including institutional aspects of regional integration, transport, energy, mining, water, natural resources and intra-Africa trade in order to bring about coherence in ECA’s support to a very important sector for African countries. This service line will also take account of the interlocking relationship between the various aspects of regional integration and will be supported in this regard by all other service lines.
Trade
The world economy is characterized by an increasing value of trade and financial flows facilitated mostly by improved scientific processes and technological links. Africa is regarded as being marginalized from these flows and processes and ECA will provide support to African countries by helping them to gain better outcomes from globalization, including improved access to markets, scientific knowledge and ICTs. ECA has very strong capacities on trade issues including international negotiations, mainstreaming development in trade and vice-versa, identifying policies that could help African countries deepen their export capacities among others. These capacities have enabled the ECA, through the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) to provide technical support to the African countries in multilateral (WTO) and bilateral (EPA) negotiations. ECA also has extensive experience in providing technical support on trade to African countries. The technical support is underpinned by a strong desire to help African countries identify policies to build export capacities to exploit the market access likely to result from the negotiations. To ensure the attainment of desired outcomes, the ECA complements the technical work and support to African countries with strong advocacy. The advocacy element has been assured through the building of very strong collaborations with regional and international organizations.
The Climate for Development in Africa Programme (ClimDev) is an African development programme to integrate Climate Risk Management (CRM) into pertinent policy and decision processes throughout the continent. Climate & Sustainable development in Africa - Knowledge Sharing Network
E-learning, is part of ECA’s continuing efforts to enhance
staff capacity to support professional development. This section links up with ECA's Library and will focus on
encouraging members to share best practices and foster knowledge dissemination
in a wide range of development areas.
This section provides space for the peer review of various documents, reports and publications. Peer review is an important mechanism that contributes to high quality, credible publications, and ensures objectivity and quality assurance in the research and publication process.
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