About CRIA
We’re committed to promoting regional integration in Africa
Professor Asante received a great deal of support at the ECA on the subject of creating an African regional integration centre. Dr. Jeggan Senghor and Dr. Jide Balogun persistently encouraged him to establish an African regional integration Centre on his retirement from the service of the United Nations in August 1997.
Professor Asante received a great deal of support at the ECA on the subject of creating an African regional integration centre. Dr. Jeggan Senghor and Dr. Jide Balogun persistently encouraged him to establish an African regional integration Centre on his retirement from the service of the United Nations in August 1997.
Happily at the LECIAD, Professor Asante teamed up with two dynamic regional integration experts, Professor Lehlohonolo Tlou and Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, to establish the Centre for Regional Integration in Africa (CRIA), which was inaugurated by H.E. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, on 26 June 2013.
To provide cutting-edge, evidence-based research and capacity building to facilitate the adoption of well-informed policy choices for meeting challenges of regionalism in Africa.
To be a premier international, independent think-tank for promotion of regionalism as a key element of African development strategy.To direct the surge of interest on the subject of economic cooperation and integration into constructive and productive channels and provide programmes and guidelines for action.
Offer training to strengthen the capacities of broad range of key actors drawn from the continental and regional economic communities (RECs), business organisations, national public sectors and non-state stakeholders (e.g. media, NGOs, women, youth, etc) in the identification of effective formulation, implementation, review and update of integration policies and programmes;
Convene forums for discourse, dialogue, and debate on critical challenges to the process of sub-regional and regional cooperation in Africa;
Serve as a focal point for research and analysis on issues, problems, and policies relating to sub-regional and regional integration process in Africa with a view to generating necessary data for effective policy formulation and implementation;
Provide consultancy and advisory services to national, sub-regional, regional and international organisations and give technical assistance for promotion of rapid regional economic integration in Africa;
Act as a documentation and resource centre for the collection, storage and dissemination information on regional integration in Africa;