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REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY MODEL

This Program is designed to focus on the regional integration efforts of post-independent East Africa. It will unravel previous attempts to achieve integration leading to the EAC of 1967. What did it achieve? What did it not achieve? Why did it collapse? All these and other related questions are asked and answered. The Program goes further to look at the post-1977: what informed the need to engage into fresher attempts for integration? The Program looks in-depth at the faces of the current EAC integration model by discussing the critical issues i.e., The Customs Union, The Common Market, The Monetary Union and The Political Federation. The Program goes further to examine whether EAC integration is on course to achieve its objectives, the challenges being faced, whether they can be resolved and how. The training enables participants to understand whether the EAC model is consistent with international best practices for Regional Economic Integration. The Program takes stock of the costs and benefits of EAC integration to inform whether the EAC has a future or not.

PROGRAM CONTENT
•What is Regional Economic Integration
•What does it aim to achieve
•The Principles guiding Regional Economic Integration Schemes
•The Background of the East African economic Integration Model and Approach
•The Phases of EAC Integration
o The Customs Union
o The Common Market
o The Monetary Union
o The Political Federation
•The Critical Components of each of the Four Phases of EAC Integration
•What has been achieved to-date
•What has not been achieved and why
•What is the Future of EAC Integration
•International Best Practices in Regional Economic Integration
•Will EAC achieve its Regional Economic Integration Dream
•Cost and Benefits of EAC Integration