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IGAD

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
IGAD was created in 1996 to supersede the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD) which was founded in 1986. The IGAD mission is to assist and complement the efforts of the Member States to achieve, food security and environmental protection, promotion and maintenance of peace and security and humanitarian affairs, and economic cooperation and integration, through increased cooperation among the Member States [Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan, and Uganda].

The objectives of IGAD are to:

• Promote joint development strategies and gradually harmonize macro-economic policies and programmes in the social, technological and scientific fields;
  
• Harmonize policies with regard to trade, customs, transport, communications, agriculture, and natural resources, and promote free movement of goods, services, and people within the region.
• Create an enabling environment for foreign, cross-border and domestic trade and investment;
• Achieve regional food security and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disasters and their natural consequences;
• Initiate and promote programmes and projects to achieve regional food security and sustainable development of natural resources and environment protection, and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disasters and their consequences;
• Develop and improve a coordinated and complementary infrastructure, in the areas of transport, telecommunications and energy in the region;
• Promote peace and stability in the region and create mechanisms within the region for the prevention, management and resolution of inter-State and intra-State conflicts through dialogue;
• Mobilize resources for the implementation of emergency, short-term, medium-term and long-term programmes within the framework of regional cooperation;
• Promote and realize the objectives of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the African Economic Community;
• Facilitate, promote and strengthen cooperation in research development and application in science and technology.