The ECA Sub Regional Office for North Africa (SRO-NA) will hold its 30th Intergovernmental Committee of Experts meeting in March 2015 under the theme: “Implementing Agenda 2063 – Planning, Mobilizing and Financing for Development”
ECA and AMU Secretariat General organized on December 11, 2013 in Rabat (Morocco) a working meeting dedicated to the issue of financing of regional integration. The objective was to present the study report carried out by ECA on the feasibility of a self-financing mechanism for AMU.
The African Project for the Implementation of the 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA) has been developed by the African Group on National Accounts (AGNA) to address the current challenges African countries face in producing timely and quality national accounts, in support of good economic governance, regional integration, and sustainable development. The Project is a continental, joint and coordinated effort of pan-African Institutions (ECA, AUC, and AfDB), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Afristat, and Member States.
While the international community is assessing the implementation of the MDGs, measuring progress towards the achievement of the sustainable development and the gap to be bridged, in particular by taking into account emerging challenges, North Africa is not only asked to contribute, but also impulse, this international dynamics by participating actively to the elaboration of the new vision of the world, in the continuity of the dynamics launched by Rio+20,
Regional integration is a key aspect of the economic development of the countries of North Africa. Trade is an important element of this. It is clear that trade within the region is one of the weakest in Africa. The Arab Maghreb Union has not quite managed to create the strong momentum for promoting trade, called for by its member countries.
Rabat, 21 November 2014 (ECA) – To ensure that growth is both sustainable and beneficial to all strata of society in Africa, countries on the continent, including North Africa, must adopt industrial policies that are germane to their own local contexts and set up strong institutions with the mandate of formulating and pushing through such policies. These are the major recommendations of the Economic Report on Africa 2014 launched at the University Mohamed V, in Rabat, Morocco on 21 November 2014.