Africa Regional Integration Index AUC-ECA

1. Africa Regional Integration Index AUC-ECA Stephen Karingi Director Regional Integration and Trade Division UNECA

2. Outline Background on Regional Integration in Africa Key milestones in measuring RI -Abuja Treaty Progress in the implementation of RI by the RECs Proposed Africa Integration Index-objectives and expected outputs Selected sectors and their indices Methodology Next Steps

3. Background • Charter of the Organization of African Unity • The Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community • The Constitutive Act of the African Union • The treaties and protocols establishing the RECs Africa’s future and aspirations regarding regional integration are embodied in:

4. Key milestones of the Abuja Treaty

5. Progress to date All RECs are supposed to be in the Third Stage at this Moment

6. Efforts to Accelerate RI Process Despite the benchmark of the Abuja Treaty-progress in RI remain low The AUC/ECA reports on RI (ARIA) -However, these lack mechanisms to monitor and track progress The AU Conference (Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire) called for the enhancement of the monitoring and evaluation of Africa’s integration through indicators In response, the AUC and the ECA has embarked on this exercise of developing RI index

7. Objectives Objectives and Expected Outputs Outputs Yardstick to governments for measuring progress towards RI Governments to accelerate their efforts in implementing RI activities/programmes Sharing of best practices (RECs/countries) A set of indicators to measure progress of regional Integration Policy recommendations to governments in the implementation of RI activities

8. Selected indicators Political & Governance Free Movement of persons Trade Statistics • Harmonized boarder operations hrs • No of non tariffs barriers removed • Countries using single windows • Value of inter –African trade • Countries joining regional banks • Ratification on charter on statistics • Independence of NSOs • Harmonization of statistics practices • No of data bits produced per year • Visa free entry • Laws on rights of residence & • establishment • Countries issuing visa upon arrival • Time taken to issued a visa • Cost of visas by MS • Legislative act of end violence against women • Government intervention in Judicial systems • Transfer of powers in elections • Review of APRM by MS 8 Selected Sectors of Focus

9. Selected indicators Infrastructure Industry Investment Energy • Repatriation of earnings from business • Use of foreign investment code • % of foreign owned firms • Mainstreaming of AIB protocols into national strategies • Value of annual investments in oil and gas • Value of imports/exports of energy products to the RECs • Spending of energy projects in MS • Levels of intra-Africa • Country’s level of investments in research • Joint venture firms in MS • No of industrial zones in MS • Length of Trans-African Highways • Use of standard gauges at port • No of flight connections in countries • Registered carrier flights 8 Selected Sectors of Focus

10. Methodology The AUC and ECA worked on draft indicators with reference to the MIP, plus external experts Distinguishing implementation of MIP and RI index Selected indicators in line with Abuja Treaty and other similar treaties Selected indicators also based on availability of data Focus was also made on sectors being implemented in the RECs

11. “ • Score for each REC will be calculated as the mean average of the scores for its member countries. • Score for the continent will be calculated as average of all African countries' scores." Computing Scores--Aggregation Indicators are scaled between zero and one- calculate as: (raw value for country– raw value for lowest ranked country) Score = (raw value for highest ranked country – raw value for lowest ranked country)

12. Next Steps Present at AU-ECA Conference of Ministers at end March 2014 in Abuja Seek endorsement by Ministers for the index and/or incorporate feedback Data collection Desk research Data from the RECs Data from member States

13. The END Thank You!!!