STRATEGY AND BUSINESS PLANNING WORKSHOP FOR

THE NEPAD, REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND TRADE

DEPARTMENT

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Tunis, Tunisia
5-7 July 2007

STRATEGIES, PRIORITIES AND EXPECTATIONS

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA

Dr. Robert M. Okello, Director

NEPAD and Regional Integration Division
 Outline

Africas Development Challenges

Mandate of ECA
Strategic Framework
Programme Structure
NEPAD and Regional Integration Division
Partnership
Collaboration with ADB

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 Africas Development Challenge
Phases of Africas Development
Period Characteristic Global Factors Africas Response
Regional Initiatives
1960 1970 Commodity Boom Institution Building
Political Independence OAU
ADB
1970 1980 Oil Crisis
Military Rule Cold War

1980 1990 SAPs Lagos Plan of Action

Africas Lost (1980)
Decade UNTACDA I and
IDDA I
PTAs: COMESA,
SADC, ECCAS, UMA
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 Phases of Africas Development (Cont.)

Period Global factors Africas Response

Characteristic Regional Initiatives
1990 2000 Globalization Abuja Treaty AEC (1991
Turn - Around - Rio (1992) UNTACDA II and IDDA
- Cairo (1994) II
- Beijing (1995) Cairo Agenda for
- Copenhagen (1995)
relaunching Africas
development (1995)

2000 Present More Globalization NEPAD

Renaissance claiming - MDG (2000) AU
the 21st Century - Doha (2001)
USA
- Monterrey (2002)
- Johannesburg (2002)
- Paris (2005)
- G 8 Focus on Africa
- UNGA Focus on Africa

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 Mandate of ECA
Original current

-Promotes the economic and The Commissions mandate and role are
social development of its consistent with and complementary to those of AU
member States and AfDB. ECA contributes to:

-Promoting regional integration in support of the

- Foster intra-regional
integration,
- Promote international
cooperation for Africa's
development.
African Union vision and priorities.
-Meeting Africas special needs and emerging
global challenges.- Assist and facilitate the work
of the African Union (AU) and the regional
economic communities.

- Strengthening the partnership with the African

Union Commission, the African Development
Bank (AfDB)

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 Mandate
Within its general mandate, ECA has played and continues to
play the role of:

Advocacy and catalyst for spearheading development in

Africa

Articulating issues, producing policy responses and incisive

publications to guide and orient member States
development efforts on a number of key issues and problems

Building capacities through training, seminars, workshops,

advisory services, and provision of technical assistance
Monitoring and analysing countries economic performance,
including providing them with early warning signs and
corrective measures to get their economic fundamentals on
track
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 Strategic Framework
The United Nations Summit outcome Document
defining new areas of development focus
The UN Secretary Generals Management Reforms

The exercise on Review of Mandates in the UN

system
The new Cooperation Agreement between the
United Nations and the African Union: 10 year
Capacity Building Plan for the AU
The need to ensure better coherence of UN support
to Africa, and
The Need for enhanced partnership.
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 Strategic Framework (Cont.)

The ECA 2007-2009 Business Plan

Achieving the MDGs

Integrating for development

Benefiting from globalisation

Strengthening institutions and capacity for

development

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 Strategic Framework (Cont.)
Strategic orientation and repositioning

Two key areas of concentration now underpin

ECAs strategic orientation:

Promotion of Regional integration in support of the

African Union vision and priorities, and

Meeting Africas special needs and the emerging global

challenges. These special needs and challenges include:
MDGs, globalization, gender equity, NEPAD and
APRM, sustainable development, statistics, ICT and
governance

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 Strategic Framework (Cont.)

Expected outcome:
Increased regional integration and effective integration into the global
economy

Accelerated progress towards achieving the MDGs, including poverty

reduction, sustainable development and gender equity
Improved macroeconomic policies, political and economic governance

Enhanced development of ICT and participation in the knowledge

economy

Improved statistical capacity of member States to enable planning for

achieving the MDGs and for monitoring progress, and

Strengthened and better-networked institutions and centers of

excellence to build Africas capacity for sustained development.
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 Strategic Framework (Cont.)
The subprogrammes are focused on the following themes:

Subprogramme 1. Trade, finance and economic development

Subprogramme 2. Food security and sustainable development

Subprogramme 3. Governance and public administration

Subprogramme 4. Information and science and technology for
development
Subprogramme 5. Economic cooperation and regional integration

Subprogramme 6. Gender and women in development

Subprogramme 7. Subregional activities for development
Subprogramme 8. Development planning and administration African
Subprogramme 9. Statistics

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 Strategic Framework (Cont.)
Strengthening of ECAs Subregional Offices
A major part of this strategic orientation and repositioning
consists of strengthening ECAs five Subregional Offices by
decentralizing more staff and resources to them, so that
ECA can have a stronger Subregional presence and
proximity to its member States.

The ECA five Subregional Offices (SROs) are:

SRO for North Africa based in Rabat, Morocco
SRO for West Africa based in Niamey, Niger
SRO for Central Africa based in Yaound, Cameroon
SRO for Eastern Africa based in Kigali, Rwanda, and
SRO for Southern Africa based in Lusaka, Zambia.
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 Strategic Framework (Cont.)
Mandate of SRO

Lead in shaping ECAs agenda and its implementation at the

Subregional level

Promote and support specific Subregional priorities and programs

Operate Subregional nodes for knowledge management and

networking.
Act as privileged partners of the RECs

Partner with African Union Commissions Subregional offices and

institutions
Engage member States through UN Country Teams, and

Participate in joint AU-ADB-ECA programmes on regional

integration
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 ECAs NEPAD and Regional
Integration Division (NRID)

Main objectives:

Strengthen the process of regional integration in Africa

through promoting intra-regional and international
trade as well as physical integration, with particular
emphasis on the transport and communications sector.

Strengthen the United Nations system support for the

implementation of NEPAD at the regional and
Subregional levels

Support to NEPAD Secretariat

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 ECAs NEPAD and Regional
Integration Division (NRID) (Cont.)
Expected accomplishments of NRID
Strengthened national capacities for policy-making in the area of regional
integration.

Increased national capacities to adopt policies and programmes for

rationalizing and streamlining the regional economic communities and other
institutions of regional integration in Africa

Enhanced coherence, coordination and cooperation among United Nations

agencies in support of the implementation of NEPAD at the regional and
Subregional levels

Improved cooperation and coordination between United Nations agencies

and African continental organizations (African Union, African Development
Bank and the regional economic communities) for the effective
implementation of NEPAD at the regional and Subregional levels.

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 ECAs NEPAD and Regional
Integration Division (NRID) (Cont.)

NRID Sections

Regional Integration Section

Infrastructure Section

NEPAD Support Unit.

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 ECAs NEPAD and Regional Integration
Division (NRID) (Cont.)

Major Areas of Work

Promotion of Regional Integration

Institutional Support to RECs

Assessment of Regional Integration in Africa

(ARIA)
Support on trade issues

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 ECAs NEPAD and Regional
Integration Division (NRID) (Cont.)

Major Areas of Work (Cont.)

Infrastructure and Natural Resources Development
Transport: SSATP; Almaty Programme for Landlocked Least
Developed Countries; Yamoussoukro Decision on African Air
Transport; Road Safety

Energy: Capacity Building for Integrated Resources Planning

(IRP) for Energy/Electricity in Africa.

Water: Africa Water Development Report; UN Inter-Agency

Group on Water; African water information clearing houses;
Climate for Development (ClimDev) Africa Programme.

Mining: Integrating mining and mineral issues in development;

Promotion of mineral clusters; Advisory services to countries
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 ECAs NEPAD and Regional
Integration Division (NRID) (Cont.)
Major Areas of Work (Cont)

Support to NEPAD Strategic Partner

Regular work programs - ECA specifically takes into account NEPADs

objectives in the preparation of its biennial work programs and budget
Responding to specific requests from NEPAD organs and related structures
as a continuous strategic partner of NEPAD (5 Year Evaluation)
Creation of continent-wide initiatives such as the African Development
Forum, the Big Table meeting, and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
Learning Group, that have helped advance Africas development agenda.
The NEPAD Support Unit in NRID was designed to strengthen ECAs
support to NEPAD and its role of coordinating and operationalizing UN
support to NEPAD. The establishment of the unit is already beginning to
have
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 Special Initiatives

The Big Table

A platform senior policymakers from Africa and
OECD for informal discussions of issues for sustained
growth and poverty reduction, the critical importance
of African leadership and commitment and the
importance of mutually reinforcing partnerships
between the continent and its development partners to
achieving effective outcomes.
African Development Forum
provides a platform for all stakeholders, member
States, the private sector, civil society and
development partners, to engage in candid and
constructive dialogue and build consensus on major
challenges facing the African continent.
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 ADF
Meeting Theme Major Outcome
No
I Oct. The Challenge to Africa NICI Plans implemented in many African
of Globalization and the countries. RICI being developed with RECs
1999 Information age

II Dec AIDS: The greatest Consensus Statement formed basis of AU Heads

2000 Leadership Challenge of States and Government Abuja Declaration on
HIV/AIDS and other Related Infections
Diseases; the GA Special Session on HIV/AIDS;
and CHIGA (2001)

III March Defining Priorities for Consensus Statement informed AU decisions on

2002 Regional Integration accelerating progress in Regional Integration

IV Oct. Governance for a Measuring and Monitoring Good Governance in

2004 progressing Africa Africa; Africa Governance Report used in APRM

V Nov. Youth and Leadership in Launching of the African Youth Charter

2006 the 21st Century

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 Big Table
Meeting Theme Major Outcome
No
I Nov. International Development Africa PRSP Leaving Group
2000 Goals and PRSs established 2nd Generation PRS

II Oct. Governance and the African APRM is successful

2001 Peer Review Process Implementation of NEPAD

III Jan. Mutual Accountability and Agreement to monitor development

2003 Development Aid Effectiveness aid effectiveness in African countries
and OECD countries. First report on
mutual Review of Development
Effectiveness produced in 2005

IV Feb. The Challenge of Effective Action Plan for Managing natural

2007 Management of Natural resources
Resources for Growth and
Poverty Reduction in Africa
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 Partnerships

Partnership with UN system

UN Regional Consultations Mechanism for inter-

agency coordination to support both the NEPAD
agenda and key priority issues of the AU Commission.

Tripartite ECA/AUC/ADB collaboration

Joint Secretariat to foster much stronger and seamless

partnership with the African Union Commission and
the African Development Bank based on a shared
vision of Africas development objectives as
embodied in NEPAD and AU priorities

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 Partnerships
Bilateral ECA-AfDB Partnership

2006 ECA and AfDB Executives, senior and technical staff met
again in Golden Tulip Hotel, in Tunis agreed on the following areas
of collaboration:

Knowledge Management, Capacity Building and Statistics

Governance, Post Conflict, Fragile States

Agriculture, Natural Resources, Energy, Environment/Water and

sustainable development

Regional Integration, RECs issues, Trade and Private Sector

Promoting gender equality and womens empowerment

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 Possible Areas of Collaboration
with ADB
ARIA IV on intra-African trade and subsequent ARIA series

Evaluation of NEPAD

Capacity building for mainstreaming regional integration

and NEPAD at national level
Studies, workshops/seminars on trade facilitation

Support to the implementation of the NEPAD Medium to

Long Term Strategic Framework (MLSF) for infrastructure
development.
International Investment Conference on Infrastructure and
Natural Resources Development in Africa
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 THANK YOU !

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