The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa write by Odhiambo, Morris. This book was released on 2016-03-02. The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1963, when the African integration project was born, regional Economic Communities (RECs) have been an indispensable part of the continent's deeper socioeconomic and political integration. More than half a century later, such regional institutions continue to evolve, keeping pace with an Africa that is transforming itself amid challenges and opportunities. RECs represent a huge potential to be the engines that drive the continent's economic growth and development as well as being vehicles through which a sense of a continental community is fostered. It is critical therefore that citizens understand the multi-faceted and bureaucratic operations of regional institutions in order to use them to advance their collective interests.
The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa
The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa write by Ali Zaidi. This book was released on 2016. The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa
The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa write by Morris Odhiambo. This book was released on 2015. The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa
Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa write by Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka. This book was released on 2021. Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC's pursuit of a rationalist and state-centric form of integration for Southern Africa is limited, as it overlooks the contributory role and efficacy of non-state actors, who are relegated to the periphery. The book demonstrates that civil society networks in Southern Africa constitute well-governed, self-organised entities that function just like formal regional arrangements driven by state actors and technocrats. The book amplifies this point by deploying New Institutionalism and the New Regionalism Approach to examine the role and efficacy of non-state actors in building regions from below. The book develops a unique typology that shows how Southern African regional civil society networks adopt strategies, norms and rules to establish an efficient form of alternative integration in the region. Based on a critical analysis of this self-organised regionalism, the book projects the reality that alternative regionalism driven by non-state actors is possible. This book expands the study of regionalism in the SADC, and makes a significant and innovative contribution to the study of contemporary regionalism. Dr Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka is a researcher for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He researches regional integration and development in Africa, with a specific focus on the SADC region. Dr Christopher Changwe Nshimbi is Director, Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) and Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria. He researches migration, regional integration, the informal economy and water governance and sits on regional and international technical working groups on trade, labour and migration, social cohesion and water. Dr Inocent Moyo is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, development and regional integration, urban and cross border informal economies, with a focus on Africa in general and the SADC region specifically.
Regional Economic Communities
Regional Economic Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Economic Communities write by Olutayo, Akinpelu O.. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Regional Economic Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the existence of overlapping regional institutions has presented a daunting challenge to the workings of various Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on the African continent. The majority of the African countries are members of overlapping and, sometimes, contradictory RECs. For instance, in East Africa, while Kenya and Uganda are both members of EAC and COMESA, Tanzania, which is also a member of the EAC, left COMESA in 2001 to join SADC. In West Africa, while all former French colonies belong to ECOWAS, they simultaneously keep membership of UEMOA, an organization which is not recognized by the African Union (AU). Such multiple and confusing memberships create unnecessary duplication and dims the light on what ought to be priority. Various chapters in this book have therefore sought to identify and proffer solutions to related challenges confronting the workings of the RECs in different sub-regions of the African continent. The discourses range from security to the stock exchange, identity integration, development framework, labour movement and cross-border relations. The pattern adopted in the book involves devolution of related discussions from the general to the specific; that is, from the continental level to sub-regional case studies.
