Economic Development and Regional Integration

OUR ENGAGEMENT:

The Heads of State and Government of Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region during the signing of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region, undertook to jointly promote a prosperous, integrated economic space, to improve the standard of living of its populations and to contribute to the development of the region by implementing the Programme of Action for Economic Development and Regional Integration with the aim of:

  • Promoting cooperation and economic integration by harmonizing and coordination national and regional policies with relevant regional economic communities so as to improve stability and economic competitiveness and to reduce poverty
  • Developing common infrastructure in the areas of energy, transport and communications
  • Promoting local regional integration by strengthening multi-sectoral cooperation and solidarity among the border populations of neighbouring states
1. The Regional Action Program of the promotion of Economic Development and Regional Integration comprises three sub-programs and fifteen priority projects.

The sub-programs are the following:

  • Cooperation for poverty reduction
  • Establishment of a Region Support Mechanism for Micro-Finance Institutions;
  • Food Security Project; and
  • Trans-Border Development Basins
2. Harmonization and strengthening of cooperation policies:
  • Revival of CEPGL and its specialized agencies; and
  • Certification of natural resources.
3. Infrastructure Development:
  • Northern Corridor;
  • Trans-African Highway (Mombassa-Lagos);
  • Lobito Corridor project;
  • Southern Corridor project;
  • Pre-feasibility study of the Northern Corridor railway extension;
  • Feasibility study on the rehabilitation and navigability of the River Congo basin;
  • Rehabilitation and connectivity of the Inga Dam;
  • Feasibility study on the regional oil pipeline;
  • Methane gas project (Kivu regional pipeline project);
  • East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy).
The Protocols are:

OUR PROJECTS AND PARTNERS:

OTHER PROGRAMS

The International Conference
on the Great Lakes
Region - ICGLR​

For Peace, Security, Stability and Development

The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region - ICGLR

For Peace, Security, Stability and Development