Nairobi, Saturday, August 18, 2018: A total of 199 out of 204 non-tariff barriers to regional trade that have been reported among the COMESA Member States since the establishment of the Tripartite NTB Online Reporting Mechanism in 2008, have been resolved. This represents a success rate of 97.5%. That notwithstanding, a disturbing phenomenon is that
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Nairobi, Thursday, August 16, 2018: Trade and Customs experts from the 21 COMESA Member States holds their 34th meeting, Friday, August 17, 2018 at the Hilton Hotel in Nairobi. The meeting will consider the reports of the third Trade and Trade Facilitation Sub-Committee and the Fourth Heads of Customs Sub-Committee that have been meeting at
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Nairobi, Wednesday, August 15, 2018: The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has urged COMESA to consider establishing a institution to deal with counterfeits and dumping in the regional market. At a meeting between COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe and the KAM team led by Acting CEO of KAM Mr Tobias Alando, they expressed concern that
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Nairobi, Monday, August 13, 2018: Heads of Customs from COMESA Member States began a two-day meeting in Kenya to deliberate on the prepared reports on customs and trade facilitation matters. On the agenda of the Customs experts is discuss Draft Regulations on the electronic certificate of origin; Draft COMESA Regional Authorised Economic Operator Programme implementation
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Lusaka, Monday 13 Aug, 2018:The designing process of the 50 Million African Women Speak (50MWS) Digital Platform for women entrepreneurs has commenced following the kick-off workshop held from 31 July -10 August 2018 at the COMESA Secretariat in Lusaka, Zambia. Officials from COMESA, East African Community (EAC), Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS), African
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Ambassadors from the European Union Delegation and the Embassy of Egypt based in Zambia held separate bilateral talks with the new Secretary General Madam Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe in her office. The Ambassador of Egypt who is also Permanent Representative to COMESA H.E. Ahmed Mostafa was the first to pay a courtesy call on the SG
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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.