1. INITIATIVES ON MEASURING GOVERNANCE, PEACE AND SECURITY STATISTICS 23-25 May 2012 Nairobi, Kenya

2. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Started 1982 as PTA, became COMESA 1994 H/Q in Lusaka Zambia WHAT IS COMESA?

3. BURUNDI, COMOROS, DJIBOUTI, D R CONGO, EGYPT, ETHIOPIA, ERITREA, KENYA, LIBYA, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, MAURITIUS, RWANDA, SEYCHELLES, SUDAN SWAZILAND, UGANDA, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE COMESA MEMBER STATES

4. COMESA GOAL To create an internationally competitive region with high standards of living through: Integrating the region by removing barriers to trade and investment Free circulation of people, goods and services Infrastructure development Harmonising policies

5. COMESA STATISICS UNIT In line with the goal of COMESA of increasing trade (Volume and value) among its member states, COMESA’s small Statistics unit was tailored to measure the achievement of COMESA strategic objective Has been compiling merchandise trade data to measure trade among its member states Measuring the flow of trade of various commodities among its member countries & the outside world.

6. COMESA STATISICS UNIT With support from development partners (AfDB) ICP programme, other Statistics being compiled National accounts Statistics (Harmonisation) CPI Infrastructure Statistics Each of the above thematic areas has an Expert attached

7. COMESA’s mandate on Peace & Security  COMESA, an organization that thrives to accomplish regional trade integration for its member countries, has come to realize that without sustainable peace, the regional trade integration agenda will struggle to fully meet its targets since priorities and resources shift once a country is absorbed in conflict.

8. Current Activities PCRD Democracy and Governance Counter Terrorism CPMR Strategy for ESA Conflict Early Warning and Response Trading for Peace

9. COMESA CONFLICT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (COMWARN)  Developing and early warning system intended to assist COMESA forestall conflicts at a very early stage possible  Intended to add value to the Continental Early warning System  Focusing on identifying and addressing structural factors by use of historical data  Developing an index which we shall call COMESA peace prosperity index as our target variable

10. COMESA CONFLICT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (COMWARN)  As a first step, conducted conflict vulnerability assessments in all COMESA19 Member States  Met with a selected group of Experts to review the reports an identify the indicators  A group of 78 indicators identified

11. COMESA CONFLICT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (COMWARN)  Demographic  Economic  Political  Security  Social  Environment  Historical

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