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R. S. Muhongo
African Union Mining Vision that facilitates regional value chains in
between African countries, and the Common Market Protocol that facilitates the free movement of the domestic workforce within the East
African region, a regional content policy can be created for the efficient
and effective domestic integration into the nascent oil and gas industry.
A regional content policy in East Africa would facilitate the creation of
regional linkages that could pool talent in the region, making the countries operate on larger economies of scale. This can be through a regional
procurement scheme that would standardize goods and services at an
internationally competitive price, quality and delivery.
73 The regional
content policy will also address institutional failure, countries like Kenya,
Tanzania and Uganda that are ‘party states’ have a tendency of regulatory
capture due to lack of transparency and heavy infiltration of corruption
in governmental institutions.
74 The move of regulating local content
policies from a national to a regional scale creates an accountability
sentiment due to the increased numbers of stakeholders.
The thought of developing a regional content policy in East Africa
must sound absurd and ambitious, since the cooperation of Kenya,
Tanzania and Uganda has ever collapsed in the 1970 s. The collapse of
the first East African Community was mainly due to different ideologies that were the underpinning framework of governance at the time,
Kenya and Uganda were capitalistic countries while Tanzania was a
socialist country this led to clashes within the interests of the region.
75
Furthermore, Kenya was accused of having the lion’s share of the EAC
by Tanzania and Uganda; such accusations led to the break-up of
the first EAC.
76 But currently, the new EAC has more members not
only Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda but also South Sudan, Rwanda and
Burundi. Furthermore, East Africa has currently developed infrastructure
on a regional scale such as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline and the
73 Los, Bart, Marcel P. Timmer, and Gaaitzen J. de Vries. “How global are global value chains? A
new approach to measure international fragmentation.” Journal of Regional Science 55.1 (2015):
66–92.
74 Lodge, Tom. “Corruption in African Politics.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2019).
75 Cooksey, Brian. “Tanzania and the East African Community: A comparative political
economy.” Discussion Paper 186, European Centre for Development Policy Management,
Maastricht (2016).
76 Ibid.
R. S. Muhongo
African Union Mining Vision that facilitates regional value chains in
between African countries, and the Common Market Protocol that facilitates the free movement of the domestic workforce within the East
African region, a regional content policy can be created for the efficient
and effective domestic integration into the nascent oil and gas industry.
A regional content policy in East Africa would facilitate the creation of
regional linkages that could pool talent in the region, making the countries operate on larger economies of scale. This can be through a regional
procurement scheme that would standardize goods and services at an
internationally competitive price, quality and delivery.
73 The regional
content policy will also address institutional failure, countries like Kenya,
Tanzania and Uganda that are ‘party states’ have a tendency of regulatory
capture due to lack of transparency and heavy infiltration of corruption
in governmental institutions.
74 The move of regulating local content
policies from a national to a regional scale creates an accountability
sentiment due to the increased numbers of stakeholders.
The thought of developing a regional content policy in East Africa
must sound absurd and ambitious, since the cooperation of Kenya,
Tanzania and Uganda has ever collapsed in the 1970 s. The collapse of
the first East African Community was mainly due to different ideologies that were the underpinning framework of governance at the time,
Kenya and Uganda were capitalistic countries while Tanzania was a
socialist country this led to clashes within the interests of the region.
75
Furthermore, Kenya was accused of having the lion’s share of the EAC
by Tanzania and Uganda; such accusations led to the break-up of
the first EAC.
76 But currently, the new EAC has more members not
only Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda but also South Sudan, Rwanda and
Burundi. Furthermore, East Africa has currently developed infrastructure
on a regional scale such as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline and the
73 Los, Bart, Marcel P. Timmer, and Gaaitzen J. de Vries. “How global are global value chains? A
new approach to measure international fragmentation.” Journal of Regional Science 55.1 (2015):
66–92.
74 Lodge, Tom. “Corruption in African Politics.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2019).
75 Cooksey, Brian. “Tanzania and the East African Community: A comparative political
economy.” Discussion Paper 186, European Centre for Development Policy Management,
Maastricht (2016).
76 Ibid.