The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is the largest regional economic community (REC) in Africa, with a combined population of more than 560 million people in its 21 Member States, and a combined GDP over USD 600 billion. Although a primarily trade-focused regional bloc, gender equality and economic empowerment of women are…
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Introduction The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional grouping of 21 African States which have agreed to promote regional integration through trade development and transport facilitation. More information can be obtained from the COMESA website www.comesa.int. The COMESA received funding from the European Union under the 11th European Development Fund…
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Introduction The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional grouping of 21 African States which have agreed to promote regional integration through trade development and transport facilitation. More information can be obtained from the COMESA website www.comesa.int. The COMESA received funding from the European Union under the 11th European Development Fund…
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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional grouping of 21 African States which have agreed to promote regional integration through trade development and transport facilitation. More information can be obtained from the COMESA website www.comesa.int. The COMESA received funding from the European Union under the 11th European Development Fund for …
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The COMESA has received funding from the 11th European Union (EU) Fund (EDF) to assist in implementing the Regional Enterprise Competitiveness and Access to Markets Programme (RECAMP) which aimed at the development of the private sectors through enhancing private sector competitiveness in the COMESA region. This programme is in line with the EU Strategy Documents…
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The Thirty Seventh Council of Ministers meeting adopted a three- year customs and trade facilitation work program (2018 – 2020) which prioritized the development of harmonised criteria for granting the status of Authorised Economic Operator in line with the Customs Management Regulation (CMR) and WCO SAFE Framework and guidelines. The COMESA Member States have agreed…
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Overall programme background Regional integration often imposes significant economic costs of adjustment, which can place constraints and challenges on Member States seeking to further their regional integration participation. Against this observation, Articles 60 and 150 of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Treaty provide for the establishment of a special Fund for…
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Climate Change is regarded as a key environment and development challenge for the 21st century. Affecting every continent, Climate Change impacts threaten to undo progress made toward poverty reduction and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Governments agree that Business-As-Usual development will not suffice — countries need a new way forward that helps their…
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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) became a member of the NDC Partnership in August 2019 and has since been awarded a grant to support three (3) Member States namely: Eswatini, Zambia and Zimbabwe with Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) revision and implementation processes. The NDC Partnership is a global initiative to help…
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The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) became a member of the NDC Partnership in August 2019 and has since been awarded a grant to support three (3) Member States namely: Eswatini, Zambia and Zimbabwe with Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) revision and implementation processes. The NDC Partnership is a global initiative to help…
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