• COMESA and the African Union will jointly mobilize the necessary resources to ensure its success.
• Kenya is set to become the second country in COMESA, after Zambia to undergo structural vulnerability and resilience assessment.
• COMESA will support the recruitment of a consultant who will be identified by Kenya
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has expressed hope that Zambia’s lessons will provide enough incentives to hasten Kenya to incorporate the use of COMESA/African Union (AU) Structural Vulnerability Assessment and Resilience Assessment framework into the national early warning system.

Speaking in Livingstone, Southern Province, COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe assured Kenya, that COMESA and the African Union will jointly mobilize the necessary resources to ensure its success.

Ms. Kapwepwe says COMESA will support the recruitment of a consultant who will be identified by Kenya once the country agrees to volunteer to the process.

“Apart from equipping your situation room, which shall be done by the AU, we shall also support the meetings and workshops as well as the recruitment of a consultant who will be identified by Kenya once the country agrees to volunteer to the process,” she said

“We shall also readily provide you whatever technical support that you shall need to ensure that the process is successful.”

According to COMESA, Kenya is set to become the second country in COMESA, after Zambia to undergo structural vulnerability and resilience assessment as part of capacity building to prevent occurrence of conflicts.

“COMESA has been implementing an early warning system (COMWARN) that provides forecasts on the structural drivers that could lead countries towards higher or lower levels of peace and prosperity.”

The model, which is anchored on the COMESA Peace and Prosperity Index has the overall goal of supporting member states to build resilience.