| ECA-SA Work programme 2012-2013
ECA-SA seeks to strengthen the capacities of member States for regional integration along specific priorities of the Southern African sub-region, and the overall NEPAD framework and other internationally agreed development goals, including Millennium Development Goals.
Expected accomplishments
Enhanced capacity of member States, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and other intergovernmental organizations to formulate and implement harmonized macroeconomic and sectoral policies and programmes to address key integration priorities in Southern Africa, including infrastructure and services; trade, investment and finance; mining and energy; food security and sustainable development; gender and development; and the achievement of the MDGs.
Strengthened capacity of SADC and other key stakeholders to implement multi-year programmes. Further strengthen information and knowledge networking with key stakeholders involved in sub-regional development activities.
Outputs
During the biennium 2012-2013, the following outputs will be delivered:
(A) Servicing of intergovernmental and expert bodies:
i. Substantive servicing of meetings: annual session of the intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Subregional Office for Southern Africa (one in 2012, one in 2013);
ii. Parliamentary documentation: report on key economic and social developments and prospects for regional integration in Southern Africa (one in 2012 and one in 2013); progress report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other regional and international agendas and special initiatives in Southern Africa (one in 2012 and one in 2013); annual report on the work of ECA in Southern Africa, including the status of implementation of the multi-year programmes (one in 2012, one 2013);
iii. Other services provided:
a) Ad hoc expert groups: review of the report on Regional Integration in Southern Africa: topical issue on regional integration in Southern Africa (2012); topical issue on addressing challenges of tripartite free trade area (FTA) between SADC, EAC and COMESA (2013); topical issue on the challenges and opportunities of climate change on agriculture and food security in Southern Africa (2012); topical issue on gender policy harmonization in Southern Africa (2013); review of the report on Regional Integration in Southern Africa: topical issue on policy, programme and protocol harmonization between SADC and COMESA in the framework of the multiyear programmes of collaboration (2012); natural resource management in Southern Africa (2013);
b) Assistance to intergovernmental bodies and/or United Nations representatives/rapporteurs: annual meeting of the subregional coordination mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to AU and its NEPAD programme, especially in the context of the Multi-Year Programme with RECs (one in 2012 and one in 2013); functional support to the work of United Nations country teams as well as to the work of the thematic clusters of the United Nations Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) (bi-annual);
(B) Other substantive activities:
i. Recurrent publications: regional integration in Southern Africa (one in 2012, one in 2013);
ii. Non-recurrent publications: topical issue on regional integration in Southern Africa (2012); topical issue on challenges and opportunities in climate change on agriculture and food security in Southern Africa (2012); topical issue on gender policy harmonization in Southern Africa; natural resource management in Southern Africa (2013);
iii. Booklets, pamphlets, fact sheets, wall charts, information kit: major development policy recommendations emanating from research and studies in Southern Africa; electronic brief on major activities of the SRO-SA, including other subregional initiatives(2012/2013);
iv. Special events: promoting the NEPAD/APRM codes and standards on corporate governance in Southern Africa(2012);
v. Technical materials: observatory on regional integration in Southern Africa; virtual knowledge networks and management of thematic workspaces for Communities of Practice; web-based information site on SRO-SA activities; maintenance of Southern Africa statistical database; (2012/2013)
(C) Technical cooperation:
i. Advisory services: advisory services, upon request, to member States, SADC, COMESA, intergovernmental organizations and civil society organizations towards the implementation of activities on the multiyear programme with SADC and COMESA and on priority development issues to strengthen regional integration in Southern Africa in the context of the UN ten-year capacity building programme for the AU, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the MDGs (2012/2013);
ii. Group training (seminars, workshops, symposia): three-day seminar for 20 professionals on results-based management for COMESA and SADC (2012); three-day workshop on topical issue on intra-SADC agriculture and food trade (2013); workshop for subregional institutions on the planning, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating ICT programmes (2012); three-day training workshop for decision makers, professionals and other stakeholders on mainstreaming regional integration into national development plans (2013);
iii. Field projects: institutional support to SADC and COMESA and member States to address institutional and human capacity building to facilitate regional integration and to roll out the eSADC initiative (1); strengthening of the Zambia-Malawi-Mozambique Growth Triangle initiative (2012/2013).
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