International Development written question – answered at on 26 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding her Department has allocated to the (a) Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, (b) East African Community and (c) South African Development Community; for what purposes any such funding was provided; and if she will make a statement.
The UK has the following regional programmes that support the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the South African Development Community (SADC):
The TradeMark Southern Africa Programme (£100 million) which supports economic growth, competitiveness and regional integration in the Tripartite region (consisting of COMESA-EAC and SADC);
The TradeMark East Africa Programme (£85.44 million) which promotes EAC integration, trade and competitiveness;
The Regional Trans-boundary Water Project (£37.3 million) which supports SADC and its member states to develop climate-resilient shared water resources in Southern Africa;
The Scaling up Energy and Environment Partnership with Southern and East Africa (£27.6 million) which enhances energy access to the rural poor in the SADC and EAC regions;
The Climate Resilient Agriculture Project (£38 million) which supports the uptake of climate-resilient agricultural practices in the Tripartite region;
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (£10 million) which provides support to SADC and COMESA among others to increase economic growth through agriculture-led development; and
The Southern Africa Regional Programme on Access to Medicines (£10.7 million) which supports implementation of the SADC pharmaceutical business plan through technical assistance to SADC and its member states.
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