The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) is a steering organ mandated by the ECA Council of Ministers to supervise the activities of subregional offices, including that for Eastern Africa.
It meets every year in view to:
- Consider the report on activities of the SRO-EA
Consider medium-term plans of action, programmes of work, as well as strategic orientations for the Subregion. - In addition, the Committee is a forum for exchange of views among experts from member countries, regional economic communities and researchers on economic and social conditions of the Subregion in view to defining modalities of cooperation and formulating recommendations for the integration and development of countries in the Subregion.
The 13th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts in 2009 will take place at a time when the world economy is mired in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis has already had a severe impact on global commodity markets with far-reaching implications for the prospects of the developing world at large. Economic growth in Africa is expected to decelerate in 2009, as the contagion effects of the global economic slowdown spreads through weakened export demand, lower commodity prices and a decline in investment flows to the region. [more].
Opening Speech by the Minister of National Development of Seychelles
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Aide Memoire[Format:
] [Language: English | French]The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) is a steering organ mandated by the ECA Council of Ministers to supervise the activities of subregional offices, including that for Eastern Africa....
Sub-Regional Office - East Africa
The Subregional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA) covers 13 countries, namely:
Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. It also works in
partnership with Regional Economic Communities, mainly: the Common Market for
Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Intergovernmental Committee on
Development (IGAD), the East African Community (EAC), the Indian Ocean
Commission (IOC), the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL)
and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). Other
institutions are also partners to SRO-EA, such as: the Transit Transport Coordination
Authority/Northern Corridor (TTCA/NC), the Port Management Association of Eastern
and Southern Africa (PMAESA), the Eastern Africa Sub-Regional Support Initiative
for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), the Nile Basin Initiative, the African Union
and United Nations Agencies.
Provisional Agenda[Format:
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] [Language: English | French] Programme of Work[Format:
] [Language: English | French] Progress Report 2008-2009[Format:
] [Language: English | French]The present report gives details of the status of implementation, as of April 2009, of the Work Programme of ECA Subregional Office for Eastern Africa for the 2008-2009 biennium as approved by the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly...
Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting : “Harmonization of ICTs Policies and Programmes in Eastern Africa subregion and Prospects”
Aide Memoire
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UNECA is convinced that regional co-operation is vital for economic development of its 13 Member States. To this end, Member States have made steady progress towards the economic integration and development of a common market. And all RECs recognize the input of Information and Communication Technology in accelerating economic growth. The development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the establishment of a common sector policy have therefore been given high priority in the subregion by various RECs and are considered as essential building blocs of regional economic integration...
Provisional Agenda
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Harmonization for National Development Policies and ICT Programmes within the Context of Regional Integration
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e-Government Training Course Aide Memoire
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e-Government Training Course Provisional Agenda
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e-Government Training Course
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NICI Training Course
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Economic Report 2009[Format:
] [Language: English | French]The publication of the 2009 Economic Report on the Social and Economic Conditions of the Eastern Africa subregion coincides with the convergence of the food-fuel-financial crises, - compounded by climate change- constitutes a real threat to human and economic development for the world in general, and Africa in particular...
Progress Report on NEPAD[Format:
] [Language: English | French]In 2002, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as the framework within which the international community, including the United Nations system, would channel its support to Africa’s development. In this regard, the UN system developed a comprehensive structure at the global, regional and country levels to support the initiative and ensure maximum results. In its capacity as the regional arm of the UN, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) was assigned the responsibility for coordinating UN support to NEPAD at the regional and sub-regional levels (General Assembly resolution 57/7 of 2002)...
The State of Regional Integration in East Africa[Format:
] [Language: English | French]Economic integration is often defined as removal of economic barriers between two or more economies. The ultimate goal of regional integration is to merge some or all aspects (depending on the stage of evolution) of the economies concerned, removing any demarcation over which actual and potential movement of services, goods and production factors are relatively low (Pelkmans, 2006)...
Enhancing Domestic Resources Mobilization through Fiscal Policy[Format:
] [Language: English | French]The theme of “Enhancing Domestic Resources Mobilization through Fiscal Policy” was adopted by the 2008 Conference of Ministers of ECA as the main focus of the 2009 Conference...
Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting : “Assessing the Subregional Office for East Africa and Regional Economic Communities Multi-Year Programmes”
Aide Memoire[Format:
] [Language: English]The ECA work undertaken under the ECA Subregional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA) subprogramme since the beginning of the 2008-2009 biennium has emphasized the formulation and implementation of harmonized macroeconomic and sectoral policies and programmes as the basis for ECA support to the efforts to achieve the development objectives of regional integration in Eastern Africa.
Provisional Programme of Work
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[Format:
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