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NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade
The community of practice under this thematic area will reflect the consistently stated desire of African countries for greater integration of the continent and within the global economy. ECA has been supporting the process of regional integration as part of Africa’s strategy for economic transformation and for integration into the global economy. In this critical area, ECA will monitor progress in integration-building capacities for implementing the Abuja Treaty for Establishing the African Economic Community, promoting NEPAD initiatives particularly in infrastructure development, sectoral issues, and peer learning. ECA’s commitment to the strengthening of infrastructure on the continent lies in its strong belief that sound interregional and overseas transport and communications contribute to the facilitation, promotion and expansion of international and intra-regional trade.
Sustainable Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and Gender
This community of practice will ensure that ECA continues to place due emphasis on issues such as eradication of poverty as well as the need to place African countries on the path of sustainable economic growth, while accelerating the empowerment of women. African countries have made real effort to integrate the MDGs into their national development plans and budgets. However, given the current trends and contexts, with few exceptions, it is generally feared that Africa as a continent may not meet most of the MDG targets within the set timeframes. Hence one of the focus of this community of practice will be in ECA’s work on MDGs that will revolve around growth and poverty reduction, sustainable development and food security, gender and social development. Moreover major challenge for African countries is to reach and sustain high levels of economic growth. Key to reaching this objective are factors such as stable and conducive macroeconomic policies and access to development finance. This community of practice will also tackle these issues under this broad thematic strategy.
Statistical development, ICT, & Sectoral priorities
This community of practice will focus on supporting the establishment of strong statistical systems in African countries and enabling proper tracking of the progress made in attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. ECA’s work programme on statistics will focus on: monitoring progress of statistical capacity building; strengthening the coordination and harmonization of statistical development activities; supporting the implementation of National Strategies for the Development of Statistics; and providing technical assistance and capacity building to member States.
Governance and Public Administration
The community of practice on “Governance and Public Administration" will underline the centrality of good governance to improving Africa’s development prospects due to the crucial role of institutions in development, and the importance of promoting participatory approaches to development. Focus in this thematic area would be in promoting and monitoring progress towards good governance in all its dimensions and will also support the APRM, promote the institutional effectiveness of governance institutions, encourage participatory development and support actions to strengthen the African media.
Observatory on Regional Integration
The Observatory On Regional Integration intends to help fulfill the needs of a platform to provide holistic information and knowledge about Africa’s integration agenda and processes so as to provide a means by which stakeholders can probe and scrutinize what transpires within regional economic commissions (RECs) and institutions of regional integration, and thus facilitate the popularization and democratization of the integration process. The observatory thus strengthens the process of harmonization of programs among RECs, enhances the participation of civil society and all stakeholders in Africa’s integration process, and promotes accountability of member States and their regional institutions, in particular RECs, in the fulfillment of integration objectives. It promotes a multi-stakeholder dialogue and interaction, between the RECs themselves on one hand, and among other institutions in the integration arena, on the other.
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