Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

IGAD Secretariat, Avenue Georges Clemenceau, P.O. Box 2653, Djibouti, Djibouti

Phone : +253 354050 / Fax : +253 356994

Web site : www.igad.org

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa was created on 25 November 1996 in Djibouti (the Republic of Djibouti) to supersede the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD) founded in 1986. The IGAD is one of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs). RECs are regional groupings of African states organized into a legal entity by treaty, with economic and social integration as their main objective. The African Union currently recognizes eight RECs, each of which plays a key role in African integration.

The IGAD mission is to assist and complement the efforts of the Member States to achieve, through increased cooperation:

• Food Security and environmental protection

• Promotion and maintenance of peace and security and humanitarian affairs, and,

• Economic cooperation and integration.

The Member States are : the Republic of Djibouti; the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; the Republic of Kenya; the Republic of Somalia; the Republic of Sudan; the Republic of Uganda.