COMESA Reviews

4.4

83% would recommend to a friend

(7 total reviews)

61% positive business outlook

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7 reviews
5.0
May 11, 2024

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Pros

Regional Exposure: Working with COMESA provides exposure to various countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, enriching your understanding of diverse cultures and economies. Networking Opportunities: You'll have the chance to network with professionals, policymakers, and stakeholders across member states, expanding your professional contacts. Impactful Work: Your role in communications can contribute to promoting regional integration, economic growth, and development across member states, offering a sense of purpose in your work.

Cons

Bureaucracy: Like many international organizations, COMESA may have bureaucratic processes that could slow down decision-making and implementation of communication initiatives. Complexity: Dealing with multiple member states with different languages, political systems, and priorities can add complexity to communication strategies and coordination efforts. Limited Resources: COMESA's budget constraints may limit the resources available for communication activities, potentially affecting the scale and impact of your initiatives. Geographical Challenges: Travel requirements and logistical challenges related to covering a vast geographical area can be demanding, affecting work-life balance.

2.0
Aug 1, 2023
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it was a good practical job

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it was a good experience

5.0
Sep 22, 2022

Conducive and enabling working environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

COMESA is an intergovernmental organisation of 21 Member States. Its main agenda is deepening regional integration through trade. Thus an employer, it give you an opportunity to work with multistakeholders from government, private sector, civil societies, donors and development partners accross a broad range of sector. It is a good place for learning and grow your career in international development agenda.

Cons

COMESA being an intergovernmental organisation rely on the member states to approve anything that the secretariat undertake. Since Member states are sovereign entities, the secretariat can not impose anything to them. Decisions have to be made once everyone agree or at least the majority. Thus, this can cause delays in programme implementation. Another downside, the secretariat is still runned in analog manner. Most of the process and approval are done manually.

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