Nairobi, Tuesday, November 13, 2018: Over the past three weeks, COMESA Monetary Institute has carried out three capacity building initiatives to equip staff of Central Banks in several COMESA Member States with skills on various aspects of financial management. The activities included: Training on “Domestication of Basel III with Particular Emphasis on Post Crisis Regulatory
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Lusaka, Thursday, November 8, 2018: Economic growth and development of many COMESA countries remain constrained due to inadequate energy infrastructure. Currently, the total installed capacity for electric power in the 21 COMESA countries is estimated at 70,000 megawatts. Speaking during the opening of the 8th Hydropower for Today Forum in Lusaka, Zambia, 6 -7 November
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Lusaka, Wednesday, November 7, 2018: Statisticians in COMESA have been urged to link statistical systems to the needs of the users to make statistics more relevant and applicable to national development planning. The Permanent Secretary for Development Planning and Administration in Zambia, Mr. Chola Chabala said this during the opening of the Ninth COMESA Committee
Read morePreparations for hosting the global hydropower promotion event in Zambia are complete. ‘The 8th Hydropower for Today Forum’ will be held in Lusaka on 6 – 7 November 2018. It is jointly organized by COMESA and the International Center on Small Hydro Power (ICSHP), based in Hangzhou, China. Other co-hosts are the Ministry of Water
Read moreLusaka, Thursday, October 25, 2018: With the high dependency on agriculture for majority of COMESA Member States, there was need to be vigilant with the threats of climate change that may affect the productivity of the sector, COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe has said. Hence, the top priority for top priority for COMESA, was to
Read moreThe 50 Million African Women Speak project was launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a two-day workshop held on 11-12 October 2018 in Kinshasa. The project’s will be accessed through electronic gadgets such as mobile phones, computers, laptops, iPads and other communication devices. Women entrepreneurs in DR Congo and the region will now
Read moreMalawi is the latest beneficiary of two regional integration projects expected to spur the leather and textile industry in the country. These are: a state of the art Leather Design Studio and a Garments and Textiles Incubation Center. Both projects have been funded by the European Union under the COMESA Regional Integration Support Mechanism (RISM)
Read moreInternational Financial reserves management requires to be conducted using different financial instruments. This ensures that reserves can be liquidated promptly and in an efficient manner to provide the necessary foreign exchange for the implementation of policy objectives related to, for example, meeting balance of payments and debt service needs and/or limiting external vulnerabilities To assist
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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.
