Lusaka, Thursday, September 29, 2016: More than 25 participants from 15 Member States drawn from research communities, Government ministries, private sector, farmer-organizations and regional economic communities have begun a two day symposium on climate smart agriculture. The objective of the symposium is to enhance regional collaboration and informed decision-making for adaptation to climate change in
Read more →Bujumbura, Wednesday, September 28, 2016: President Pierre Nkurunzinza of Burundi says peace, security and stability in the region needs to be enhanced as it underpins the success of regional integration. Speaking when he received the Secretary General of COMESA Sindiso Ngwenya in Bujumbura, the President said the ongoing mediation process by the East African Community
Read more →Lusaka, Tuesday 27 September 2016: Stakeholders began a two day consultative dialogue in Lusaka, Zambia to review a proposed instrument to facilitate movement of business persons using a COMESA Business visa. The dialogue is between governments, the private sector, immigration experts and the diplomatic corps. It will look at what the COMESA Business Council (CBC)
Read more →The Sama Group of Companies of Egypt has offered 10 undergraduate scholarships to COMESA nationals in any discipline at Sinai University which is part of the group. Five of the scholarships are specifically for Ethiopia nationals while the rest will be taken up by other member States on a first come first served basis. Chairman
Read more →Cairo, Sunday, September 25, 2016: Egypt has confirmed its participation in the forthcoming 19th COMESA Summit and policy organs meetings scheduled to take place in Madagascar from 10 – 19 October 2016. This was done during a meeting in Cairo, between the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Tarek Qabil (picture right) and the Secretary General
Read more →Lusaka, Thursday, 22 September 2016: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat have launched a flagship training programme on the signature and ratification of the COMESA Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons, Labour, Services, Right of Establishment and Residence (otherwise known as the Free
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| H.E Ato Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia 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.
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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.
