The analysis of the challenges facing Africa and the comparative advantage of ECA in the regional landscape dictates a need to refine the Commission’s programme priorities to avoid duplication, promote complementarities, eliminate inconsistencies and place the required emphasis on important sectors. While maintaining its analytical and knowledge-sharing capacity across the full range of development themes and sectors, and developing stronger partnership and more dynamic networking with core stakeholders, it is also clear that ECA must focus its “operations” on a more limited set of sectors and themes where its competence and contribution are widely acknowledged.