Overview of regional integration in Africa

This chapter highlights developments in Africa’s regional integration efforts in key areas across the RECs and broadly at the continental level. These include efforts towards continental market integration through the Tripartite FTA initiative involving COMESA, EAC and SADC, and more broadly through the AU Summit Decision to fast-track a CFTA; the Minimum Integration Programme (MIP); the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA); continental financial institutions; the African Charter on Statistics; the Africa Mining Vision (AMV); the African common position on migration; and peace and security. The chapter concludes with a discussion on mainstreaming regional integration at the national level, which is an important catalyst for achieving Africa’s regional integration.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development