UN Women Regional Director Ms. Izeduwa Derex-Briggs visited the COMESA Secretariat, Thursday, 17 August 2016 to discuss modalities of implementing an MoU signed between the two organizations in April 2016. Ms. BrUN Women Regional Director Ms. Izeduwa Derex-Briggs visited the COMESA Secretariat, Thursday, 17 August 2016 to discuss modalities of implementing an MoU signed between
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Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya has sent congratulatory messages to the Presidents of Rwanda and Kenya on their re-election during their respective countries’ polls conducted on August 4th and 8th respectively. In the congratulatory message to President of Rwanda, H.E Paul Kagame, the Secretary General expressed confidence on continued consolidation of stability and implementation of developmental
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COMESA is in a process of setting up a modern railway technology known as the Futran System. This is an automated system that can take a payload of up to 10 tons. Initial testing of the system is currently bring done with a 3-ton payload at the Milotek external test facility in South Africa. The
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Representatives of five African Regional Economic Communities (RECs), energy regulators, power pools and two regional centers for renewable energy from Eastern and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (EA-SA-IO) met in Lusaka, August 16-17 to discuss the implementation of a new regional energy project. The meeting was the first of the Steering Committee of the
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Lusaka, Friday, August 11, 2017: The Regional Association of Energy Regulators for Eastern and Southern Africa (RAERESA) this week held a regional sensitization workshop on renewable energy guidelines as a way of promoting harmonized renewable policy and regulatory guidelines among Member States. The workshop had 45 participants from 15 Member States namely; Burundi, Congo DR,
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Nairobi, Thursday, 10 August 2017: COMESA has issued a preliminary statement on the Kenya General Elections. In the statement, the Election Observers Mission Leader Ambassador Dr Simbi Mubako, said the successful deployment and use of the elections technology known as the Kenya Integration Electoral Management Systems (KIEMS) was one of the best practices observed. “The
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| H.E Hery Rajaonarimampianina, President of the Republic of Madagascar and Chairman of the COMESA Authority |
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
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.
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.
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 Legal and Corporate Affair Division of COMESA, which is also the office of the Legal Counsel is the legal advisory arm of COMESA
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 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
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.
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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.