Your blogger attended a P2P learning event in Mombasa last week where the five countries of the East African Community, joined by neighbouring states (Zambia, RDC) and OHADA, shared ideas and exchanged best practices about building the Common Market launched in 2009 between Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group, organiser in partnership with Kenya and donors, had placed the event under the banner of Regulatory Reform and invited experts from the EU and ASEAN to draw lessons from these more integrated groups on how to apply RR principles to manage regulation, harmonize national commercial laws, monitor implementation of reform by the use of scorecards and efficiently inspect enforcement.
All material will soon be online (URL so be communicated here), following the two previous events in Arusha 2008 (on cutting red tape) and Kampala 2010 (multi-level). Participants also gave updates about their respective RR projects and results and called for the development of a regional set of regulatory quality standards similar to the OECD ones. See also press report.
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