Management and selected staff from COMESA Secretariat held a two-day retreat to finalise the 2026-2030 Medium Term Strategic Plan to replace the current one which has ran its course.

Assistant Secretary General for Administration and Finance Dr Dev Haman addressed the team and encouraged all to actively participate and match interventions to needs of Member States, while ensuring all inputs into the MTSP are feasible and contribute to COMESA’s core mandate.

“We need to make sure that our inputs are contributing to our main mandate of market integration,” Dr. Haman urged staff, and challenged them to ensure the MTSP is focused.

“It is good to dream, but let’s limit those dreams into those that are actionable,” he said. “Let’s not be overambitious, let’s not keep carrying things we cannot do,” Dr. Haman said. He further noted the importance of collaboration with partners.