Virtual Workshop with Students, Staff and other stakeholders of the COMESA Masters Programme in Regional Integration (Kenyatta University and University of Mauritius)
Focusing on two ECA Publications
The 10th Edition of the Report on Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA X) on the theme: “Services Trade Liberations and integration within the AfCFTA”
and The Report on “Governing the interface between the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs)”
7th April 2022 (08:00 – 13:30 Lusaka, Zambian time which is + 1 hour for Ethiopian time)
The workshop aims at showcasing and discussing the key findings and recommendations of the two reports (ARIA X and Governing the AfCFTA – RECs interface) with students, lecturers and other stakeholders of the COMESA’ strategic Masters programme on Regional Integration with a view of facilitating uptake and implementation. The analyses provided by the reports have the potential to contribute to deepening understanding of various nuances in Africa’s regional integration efforts, including concrete policy interventions that could increase the prospects of successfully implementing the AfCFTA and RECs level FTAs, as well as improving Africa’s overall integration environment. It would be an excellent platform for robust engagement with students enrolled in this strategic programme, most of whom are already practitioners or alternatively, are prospective practitioners in various government departments, regional integration organizations and private sector institutions dealing with diverse issues of integration. It is also hoped that the seminar will be able to pitch the ARIA X and Interface Reports as dependable resource materials for the research efforts that the students of the COMESA MA Programme on Regional Integration would be engaging in.
The workshop would be done using a virtual platform, accessible via MS Teams: Registration Link to be shared
Contact persons:
Zewditu Befekadu (befekaduz@un.org);
Vital Habinshuti (vital.habinshuti@un.org),
copying: Francis Ikome (ikome@un.org); and Dr. Christopher Onyango (conyango@comesa.int).