Lusaka, Thursday, November 24, 2016: A high level cyber-security training and awareness workshop for senior policy makers and experts has been conducted in Burundi. Its aim is to equip them with the skills to produce effective cyber security strategies, policies, legislation and institutions. The training which targeted policy makers, lawyers and Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Read more →Lusaka, Thursday, 24th November 2016: The COMESA Business Council will hold its 10th Annual General Meeting, Friday 25th November 2016. The meeting  will bring together the CBC membership, apex private and the public sector stakeholders from the 19 COMESA countries and development partners including the USAID. Among the key items in the agenda of the meeting is the validation of
Read more →Lusaka, Tuesday, November 22, 2016: A new Joint Partnership Forum that brings together development partners based in Zambia and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been established. The objective of the forum is to coordinate identification, prioritization and support to regional integration programmes to avoid duplication of activities. The first forum
Read more →Hyderabad, Friday, November 18, 2016:Â Country delegates from five COMESA States that grow cotton completed a one week experience-sharing and learning tour of biotechnology cotton farming, regulation and commercialization in India. Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia participated in the study tour which comprised of Members of Parliament, biosafety regulators, researchers and journalists. The study
Read more →Lusaka, Zambia: COMESA and the United States Agency for International Development(USAID) met in Lusaka on 14th November 2016 and discussed ways of implementing the recently signed US$77 million dollars Regional Development Objectives Grant Agreement (RDOAG). USAID East Africa Mission Director Karen Freeman, who was leading a team of experts in legal, technical, planning and finance
Read more →Lusaka, Zambia: The Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe has appointed a new Special Representative to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). His Excellency Hidenobu Sobashima presented his Letter of Credence to Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya during a ceremony in Lusaka on Thursday 17 November 2016. “I am determined to do my
Read more →
 |
|---|
| 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 Institutional Affairs 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.
Mauris adisciping fringila turpis intend tellus ornare etos pelim. Pulvunar est cardio neque vitae elit. Lorem vulputat paentra.
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.
