Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

Autorité intergouvernementale pour le développement

Founded

1996-03-21 Nairobi Kenya

History

Aims

Promote joint development strategies and gradually harmonize macro-economic policies and programmes in 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 and establishment of residence; create an enabling environment for foreign, cross-border and domestic trade and investment; achieve sub-regional food security and encourage and assist efforts of member states to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disasters and their consequences; initiate and promote programmes and projects for sustainable development of natural resources and environment protection; develop and improve a coordinated and complementary infrastructure, particularly in the areas of transport and energy; promote peace and stability in the sub-region and create mechanisms within the sub-region for inter and intra-state conflict prevention, management and resolution through dialogue; mobilize resources for the implementation of emergency, short, medium and long-term programmes within the framework of sub-regional cooperation; promote and realize the objectives of COMESA and the African Economic Community; facilitate, promote and strengthen cooperation in research, development and application in the fields of science and technology.

Events

Activities

Structure

Languages

Annual Budget

Finance

Relations with Inter-Governmental Organizations

Accredited to the Conference of the Parties of: E-XE3486 - Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Secretariat of the UNCCD). Regional Economic Community of: D-XD8572 - African Union (AU). Member of: E-XM3547 - Africa Partnership Forum (APF). E-XJ0805 - Intergovernmental Organizations Conference (IGO Conference). Adheres to: E-XJ4994 - Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC).

Links with:

• D-XD0017 - African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC);
• F-XF0121 - African Development Bank Group (ADB Group);
• F-XF2245 - African Economic Community (AEC);
• E-XE9583 - African Forestry and Wildlife Commission (AFWC);
• E-XE4596 - African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW);
• D-XD6386 - African Telecommunications Union (ATU);
• U-XG5650 - Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA);
• D-XD4566 - Comité permanent inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS);
• U-XK0872 - Disaster Management Training Programme (DMTP);
• F-XD6196 - East African Community (EAC);
• E-XE5963 - ECA Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA Kigali);
• E-XE6080 - ECA Subregional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA Lusaka);
• E-XE2442 - European Commission (EC);
• F-XF9809 - Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS);
• E-XJ0141 - Great Lakes Initiative on AIDS (GLIA);
• IGAD Hydrological Cycle Observing System;
• H-XE1086 - Inter-Agency Working Group on Desertification (IAWGD);
• E-XE3867 - Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR);
• F-XF1393 - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD);
• E-XE0390 - International Development Research Centre (IDRC);
• F-XF4542 - Islamic Development Bank (IsDB);
• F-XF2007 - Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA);
• F-XN5321 - Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS);
• H-XF5912 - Pan African Telecommunications Network (PANAFTEL);
• E-XE0071 - Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD);
• E-XM2250 - Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States (RECSA);
• F-XF2522 - Southern African Development Community (SADC);
• G-XG6910 - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida);
• H-XE1436 - Trans-African Highway Bureau;
• E-XE4161 - UNEP;
• E-XE3382 - UNDP;
• B-XB3383 - UNESCO;
• E-XE3016 - UNHCR;
• E-XE4174 - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA);
• E-XE0621 - United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC);
• G-XG2898 - United States Agency for International Development (USAID);
• H-XE0968 - WHO Pan African Emergency Training Centre (PTC-Addis);
• F-XF4622 - World Hydrological Cycle Observing System (WHYCOS);
• B-XB3556 - World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

• Observer status with: Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC)
• Observer status with: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Observer status with: United Nations (UN)(General Assembly)

Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations

Memorandum of Understanding with: F-XJ4810 - African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF); F-XJ5089 - Nile Basin Discourse (NBD). Member of: F-XF4781 - Réseau de prévention des crises alimentaires (RPCA). Partner of: F-XM7167 - Global Resilience Partnership (GRP). Links with: E-XM4542 - Africa Leadership Institute (AFLI); F-XF7038 - The Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI); F-XJ3541 - Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC); E-XE2038 - Inter Africa Group (IAG); E-XC4494 - International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE); F-XJ0741 - Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS); U-XE1624 - Staff Association for the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa. Links indicated by: D-XG9790 - Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA).

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Type II Classification

Subjects ^*

• Living Conditions → Food Security
• Commerce → Investment
• Commerce → Trade
• Nation State → Intergovernmental
• Nation State → Authorities
• Economics → Economic
• Development → Development

UN Sustainable Development Goals ^**

UIA Org ID

XF4199