Lilongwe, Friday, June 15, 2018: COMESA has successfully launched the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MWS) project, a women economic empowerment initiative, in Malawi. This followed engagement between COMESA and stakeholders conducted on 12-14 June 2018 in Lilongwe, Malawi. Over 30 stakeholders from the Government, Private Sector, NGOs and Women Associations in Malawi participated. The
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Lusaka, Friday, June 15, 2018: The timetable of the 20th COMESA Heads of State and Governments Summit and other Policy Organs meetings has been issued. The Summit will take place in Lusaka, Zambia on 18 – 19 July 2018. It will be preceded by meetings of ministers and technical officials starting from July 9, 2018.
Read more →Youth will take centre stage at the World Export Development Forum 2018, taking place in Lusaka, Zambia, on 11-12 September where business leaders, policymakers and youth from around the world will explore a range of trade-related issues, including agribusiness, investment and the African Continental Free Trade Area. Themed ‘Scaling Up through Trade’, this year’s annual
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Lusaka, Tuesday, June 12, 2018: The Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and Ethiopia have approved the environmental release of insect resistant genetically modified cotton varieties for cultivation. The Swaziland Environment Authority (SEA) and the Ethiopian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change granted the landmark approvals in May and June respectively. The Bt-cotton varieties approved,
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Lusaka, Friday, June 8, 2018: COMESA and International Organization for Migration (IOM) today signed a co-delegation Agreement on the implementation of the small scale cross border trade initiative in five border posts within the region. The programme is part of a broader COMESA-European Union Delegation Agreement of 13.4 million euros signed in May 2018 to
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| H.E Hery Rajaonarimampianina, President of the Republic of Madagascar and Chairman of the COMESA Authority |
The objective of the unit is to contribute to the impact, efficiency and effectiveness of COMESA Member States “trade reforms and regional integration initiatives so that they can fully benefit from regional and international trade opportunities, reduce poverty and achieve their (MDG) development objectives.
Corporate Communications Unit backstops all communication activities that COMESA undertakes, both within and outside the organization. It works to maintain consistent flow of information between COMESA and its diverse publics across the region and beyond by raising public awareness on regional integration initiatives and galvanizing broad support for the realization of the vision of the
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The final objective of cooperation in Trade, Customs and Monetary Affairs is to achieve a fully integrated, internationally competitive and unified single economic space within which goods, services, capital and labour are able to move freely across national frontiers.
COMESA has recognized infrastructure development as a priority and strategic focus area that requires special attention. The Strategic Objective to be pursued is, therefore, to effectively address constraints related to the improvement of infrastructure and services in the region in order to reduce the cost of doing business and also and to enhance competitiveness, through fostering physical regional connectivity and deepening infrastructure integration.
The Division of Administration offers a key support service to the COMESA Secretariat. The mandate of the division is to provide Member States, Executive Management, Secretariat and other stakeholders with the Administrative services and advice they need. The Division is there to provide a high level of service and support on issues related to Human Resources, Conferencing, Procurement and General Services which will allow other Divisions and Units to efficiently and effectively execute their programmes and deliver on their mandates
In the area of Information Technology, COMESA’s main intervention is to promote the use and awareness of Information Technology to lead to the Information Society and to contribute to socio-economic integration.
The Legal and Corporate Affair Division of COMESA, which is also the office of the Legal Counsel is the legal advisory arm of COMESA
Role Purpose: To provide Member States, Management, Secretariat and other stakeholders with financial services and advice they need and ensure that all the resources both budgetary and extra budgetary are properly accounted for in an efficient, secure and appropriately controlled financial environment
The Gender and Social Affairs Division in the COMESA Secretariat, exists to provide leadership, direction and oversight of the implementation of the COMESA Gender Policy in the Member States and at the Secretariat. The Division sets out to achieve this purpose through mainstreaming of gender as a crosscutting issue within the Secretariat and the COMESA programmes and overseeing the implementation of the Social and Cultural Affairs activities.