International Assistance: Its Variety, Coordination, and Impact Among Public Corporations in Kenya and the East African Community

1974 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira Sharkansky ◽  
Dennis L. Dresang
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
The Other ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
International Assistance ◽  
Public Corporations ◽  
African Community ◽  
Foreign Governments ◽  
Donor Coordination

The diverse interests of donors and the desires of recipients to shop for the best deals mean that coordination of projects in international assistance causes problems along with promises of greater efficiency. Evidence from East Africa indicates that political competition and lack of candor and comparability in donors' reports limit the effectiveness of efforts at donor coordination. On the other hand, the policies of Kenya and the East African Community permitting virtual autonomy to profitable public corporations in their dealings with foreign governments and businessmen compromise the opportunity to optimize the use of assistance available in a multi-donor situation.

scholarly journals EAC – an Answer for Regional Problems or Failed Solutions in East Africa?

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (56) ◽  
pp. 267-277
Author(s):  
Anna Cichecka
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
East African ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Intergovernmental Cooperation ◽  
African Community ◽  
Regional Problems ◽  
Common Policy

One of the definitions states that regionalism means a common policy or project aimed at increasing informal links and economic, political and social transactions which strengthen integration processes, intensify intergovernmental cooperation and create regional identity among the community. According to the above, it was assumed that firstly, states in a group are stronger and more effective and secondly, that regionalism and regionalization may be regarded as a way to solve some regional problems and to contribute to the development of individual states. This narrative became especially attractive for underdeveloped and dysfunctional regions as it offered an opportunity for changes. As a result, a quantitative increase in regional initiatives started. The article is dedicated to the integration processes in the East Africa region. The main aim of the paper is to examine the situation in East Africa, regarding the role that the East African Community has played in this area. Moreover, an attempt has been made to analyze the integration model adopted by the organization and find out if the EAC is able to solve the main regional problems or rather to propose a failed solution and maintain dysfunctional patterns in the organization.

Public Corporations in Single–Country and Regional Settings: Kenya and the East African Community

1973 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis L. Dresang ◽  
Ira Sharkansky
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
East African ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Public Corporations ◽  
Public Corporation ◽  
African Community ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
The Impact

This essay draws from the experience of Kenya and the East African Community to ascertain the impact of single–country or regional ownership on the commercial performance of public enterprises. The advantages of the larger resource base of a regional community are mooted by the problems of mobilizing those resources. A fledgling public corporation can secure assistance most readily when owned by one state. It is also clear that traits of a corporation independent of its regional or single–country status affect commercial success. The essay concludes with a discussion of the limited contribution public corporations make to further levels of regional integration.

East Africa politics mars region's crisis role

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
East African ◽  
Content Type ◽  
East African Community ◽  
African Community ◽  
Step Down

Significance Opposition parties reject the new dates, stating that their main demand is for Nkurunziza to step down before polls take place. The new dates adhere to East African Community (EAC) recommendations to delay elections. While the regional bloc may have more influence over Burundi than other external players, it will struggle to play an effective diplomatic role in ending the political crisis. Impacts A prolonged crisis will worsen a poorly performing economy, which is heavily dependent on foreign support. Belgium, the largest donor, may cut further bilateral support should Nkurunziza secure a third mandate. Economic disruption continues to hurt agricultural supply chains across the country, risking food security.

scholarly journals Regionalism and Regional Politics of African States (on the Example of the Countries of the East African Community)

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
V.R. Filippov
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
East African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
African Community ◽  
High Level

The subject of the study was the East African Commonwealth, an economic association that currently unites Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Southern Sudan. Particular attention is paid to the integration processes in Africa in the post-colonial period, the doctrine of federalism in the political discourse of African countries, the causes of the crisis and the dissolution of the EAC in the seventies of the last century, as well as the economic and political reasons for reintegration of YOU. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the EAC from an economic alliance to a political one and the prospect of forming a federative state on the basis of the SAC. The author identifies the factors that led to the economic consolidation of the EAC, as well as those determinants of development of the commonwealth, which make it extremely difficult to form a unified federal state in East Africa. It is concluded that the further regionalization of the African continent and the realization of the federal project in East Africa will be hindered by such factors as the high level of conflict in the EAC member countries, tribalism, cultural, confessional and linguistic heterogeneity, and the ambition of leaders and political elites.

scholarly journals Improving access to quality medicines in East Africa: An independent perspective on the East African Community Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. e1003092
Author(s):  
Alexander R. Giaquinto ◽  
Alberto Grignolo ◽  
Lawrence Liberti ◽  
John C. W. Lim ◽  
Tomas Salmonson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
African Community ◽  
Regulatory Harmonization

scholarly journals Commentary: mobile laboratories for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics: what Europe could learn from the East African Community to assure trade in times of border closures

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Gehre ◽  
Hakim Lagu ◽  
Emmanuel Achol ◽  
Michael Katende ◽  
Jürgen May ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Mobile Laboratory ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Laboratory Network ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
African Community

Abstract Background The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 mutants might lead to European border closures, which impact on trade and result in serious economic losses. In April 2020, similar border closures were observed during the first SARS-CoV-2 wave in East Africa. Main body Since 2017 the East African Community EAC together with the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine BNITM established a mobile laboratory network integrated into the National Public Health Laboratories of the six Partner States for molecular diagnosis of viral haemorrhagic fevers and SARS-CoV-2. Since May 2020, the National Public Health Laboratories of Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and South Sudan deployed these mobile laboratories to their respective borders, issuing a newly developed “Electronic EAC COVID-19 Digital Certificate” to SARS-CoV-2 PCR-negative truck drivers, thus assuring regional trade. Conclusion Considering the large financial damages of border closures, such a mobile laboratory network as demonstrated in East Africa is cost-effective, easy to implement and feasible. The East African Community mobile laboratory network could serve as a blueprint for Europe and other countries around the globe.

scholarly journals Focus on psychiatry in East Africa

2002 ◽  
Vol 181 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Njenga
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
African Community ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Court Of Appeal ◽  
Legislative Assembly

East Africa is made up of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, all previous colonies of the British Empire which attained their independence in the early 1960s. At the time of independence, the East African community held the three countries together. Political expedience broke up the community in 1977 but greater wisdom and economic reality have brought the three countries back together in December 2001, in the form of a common Legislative Assembly and Court of Appeal. A Customs Union is expected soon, ahead of full political integration.

History of regional integration in East Africa: the case of East African Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (05) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Claire Ayuma Amuhaya ◽  
Brian Mugabe ◽  
Augustin Ndayisaba
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Community

Prospects for free movement in the East African Community

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Oucho
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
African Community ◽  
Afrique Australe ◽  
Afrique De L’Est

This article traces the evolution of regional integration in East Africa, discussing its nature, scope, triumphs, and challenges. It reviews the Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Community Common Market (PEEACCM), which develops aspects of free movement policy that were implicit in earlier editions of the EAC regional integration. The article then addresses the several challenges that exist to free movement in the EAC as it endeavors to usher in the larger Southern and East Africa COMESA–EAC–SADC Tripartite Agreement and even wider continental-level coordination. It concludes that a managed migration policy rather than free movement might be more appropriate. Spanish Este artículo traza la evolución de la integración regional en África del Este, discutiendo su naturaleza, alcances, triunfos y desafíos. Se revisa el Protocolo para el Establecimiento del Mercado Común de la Comunidad de África del Este (conocido como Protocolo de Mercado Común), el cuál desarrolla aspectos de la política de libre circulación que estaban implícitas en las previas ediciones sucesivas a la integración regional en la Comunidad de África del Este (CAE). Posteriormente, el artículo aborda los diversos desafíos que existen para la libre circulación en la CAE en contraste con los esfuerzos de la misma CAE por ser la vanguardia en el amplio Acuerdo Tripartita COMESA-CAE-SADC, que abarca países del sur y del este de África, y en la coordinación a nivel continental aún más amplia. El autor llega a la conclusión de que una política de gestión de la migración en lugar de libre circulación podría ser más apropiada. French Cet article retrace l'évolution de l'intégration régionale en Afrique de l'Est (AE), en discutant de sa nature, de sa portée, des succès et des défis qui se posent à elle. Il examine le Protocole portant sur la création du Marché commun d'Afrique orientale communautaire (PEACCM en anglais), qui développe des aspects de la politique de libre circulation qui étaient implicites dans les éditions précédentes des accords d'intégration de l'AE. L'article aborde ensuite les nombreux défis qui se posent à la libre circulation dans la CAE, comment les CAE s'efforcent également d'inaugurer la plus grande Afrique australe et orientale de l'Accord tripartite COMESA-EAC-SADC et de la coordination encore plus large au niveau continental. Il conclut qu'une politique de gestion des migrations pourrait être plus appropriée que la libre circulation.

Economic Co-operation in East Africa

1969 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-287
Author(s):  
Donald C. Mead
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Common Market ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Community ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
African Community ◽  
The Common ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Direct Concern

This article explores the prospects for co-ordinated co-operative economic advance in East Africa. Its frame of reference reaches wider than simply an analysis of the 1967 Treaty.1 This broader viewpoint is important for two major reasons. In the first place, there are a number of aspects of economic interdependence which are not covered at all in the Treaty; the implication is that these will be of no direct concern to the institutions of the new East African Community (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania). For example, the level of the external tariffs of the three countries is obviously crucial to the operation of the Common Market; among other reasons, this is because the maximum permissible transfer tax is defined in terms of the external tariff. Yet the committee responsible for setting external tariffs is not linked in any direct way with the institutional set-up in Arusha; it seems likely that decisions of the tariff committee will not be subject to discussion or appeal through these community institutions.

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