Departments
About Economic Development, Integration and Trade
About Economic Development, Integration and Trade
The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) promotes the work of the AU in the area of economic integration and private sector development and engagement.
The DEA is mandated to:
- initiate and promote policies and strategies to strengthen regional coordination and cooperation on economic integration initiatives
- Support private sector development and investment
- Mobilise development funding
- Implementing Agenda 2063 programmes for the African Economic Platform (AEP) and African Financial Institutions: African Investment Bank and Pan African Stock Exchange; the African Monetary Fund and the African Central Bank.
- Promote the establishment of an African economic and monetary union
- Propose policy solutions for resolution of Africa’s debt problem;
- Provide a framework for harmonised statistics.
- Organise the Congress of African Economists and meetings of the Specialised Technical Committee (STC) on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration.
- Support the establishment of the AU Institute for Statistics and the Statistics Training Centre.
Structure
Commissioner for Economic Affairs
Victor Harison, Madagascar (elected July 2017)
Director:
Divisions
Activities
July 10, 2023 to July 12, 2023
The African Union Commission in collaboration with the East African Community Secretariat is organising the
July 06, 2022 to July 08, 2022
Commemoration of the African Integration Day. Theme: ‘Deepening African Economic Integration in the Era of De-Globalization’
January 07, 2019
“Building a Strong Community of Innovative and Forward Looking Leaders in Official Statistics”.
Department Resources
September 19, 2020
The African Union Commission (AUC) envisions “an integrated continent that is politically united based on the ideals of Pan Africanism an
June 24, 2020
Highlights of the cooperation with the GIZ-project “Support to the African Union on Migration and Displacement”
June 24, 2020
Violent extremism is a global issue.