African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI)
Decisions
100.
Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa
(ACTESA)
Council made the following decisions:
Decisions
103.
(a) Gratitude be conveyed to the World Bank for its continued
technical and financial support for ATI’s membership
expansion; and
(a) Urged
ACTESA to cover all Member States when
implementing its programmes;
(b) African countries, especially COMESA Member States,
which are not yet ATI members consider joining the Agency
and by doing so bring the benefits of ATI’s products to
investors and the business communities in their respective
countries.
(b) Adopted the ACTESA Five-Year Development Strategy
(2012-2016);
(c) Directed ACTESA to develop an action plan for the
implementation of the strategy;
(d) Directed ACTESA to develop a Charter to govern the
operations of the agency; and
Federation of National Associations of Women in Business in
Eastern and Southern Africa (FEMCOM)
Decisions
101.
Council made the following decisions:
(e) Directed ACTESA to develop a monitoring and evaluation
mechanism to track performance and assess the
effectiveness of the strategy.
Council made the following decisions:
(a) Increase resources for effective and efficient operations of
the FEMCOM Secretariat and activities; and
Regional Integration Support Mechanism (RISM) Indicators
(b) COMESA should consider increasing funding for hiring of
professional staff at FEMCOM Secretariat.
Decisions
104.
Council made the following decisions:
(a) Approved the Integration Indicators that are in line with the
MTSP, as set out in the table below;
Competition Commission
(b) Urged Member States to finalise their baselines against the
MTSP monitoring system;
Decision
102.
Council made the following decisions:
(a) That Member States without national competition legislation
should enact competition laws in line with COMESA
regulations.
(c) Urged Member States to constitute, formalise and notify the
Secretariat of their national inter-ministerial co-ordinating
committees; and
(d) A workshop on preparation of requests under next call for
submissions be held before the end of 2011.
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