Pan-African News Political News Africans in Government East African Countries Continue Making Progress on Effort to Unite
| East African Countries Continue Making Progress on Effort to Unite | ||
| Africans in Government | |
| Tuesday, 17 March 2009 07:13 | |
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - The East African Community (EAC) secretariat, in collaboration with the East African Law Society, this week will convene a forum meant to promote the participation by civil society and ordinary people in the regional integration process.
The forumm dubbed "Strengthening Civil Society in the EAC: Sharing Experiences with Other Regional Economic Blocs,” will be held in the Tanzanian northern town of Arusha on Friday and Saturday, according to the secretariat. "The idea is to drum up support in efforts to strengthen civil society to ensure that needs and aspirations of East Africans are taken care of in the proposed economic integration process," the secretariat added. Some 100 delegates and representatives of civil society organisations in the region are expected to attend the forum to be opened by EAC secretary general Juma Mwapachu. The forum will also attract participants from the West African Civil Society Organisation Forum (WASCOF) and the Southern African Development Community-Council of NGOs and the Addis Ababa Centre for Citizen Participation at the African Union. The participants will share views on the integration, challenges and lessons learnt by civil society in other regional blocs and come up with practical recommendations for the EAC. "We recognise that the road ahead requires the adopting of strategies, while drawing lessons from ECOWAS, COMESA, SADC and the African Union,” the EAC secretariat said. Source: APA |
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