The Board of Directors of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), in its 2^nd meeting in 2005, had approved the allocation of the sum of USD 370,000 as a grant to finance a training program in the field of Coordination and Economic Integration for African Union Commission cadres and some of the Regional Economic Organizations operating in Africa. This grant was approved in response to a request by the AU Commission, which comes in line with BADEA's ever increasing attention to training program since 1997.

 The program consists of twin training sessions; one for Anglo-phones and the other for Franco-phones African countries. Each group will have 20 participants, and the training will be conducted by IDEP Organization which is located in Dakar, capital of the Republic of Senegal. The policy of BADEA is to assign conduction of such training program to Arabic and African training institutes.

 The training for Anglo-phones has already started in Dakar on October 2^nd and will be concluded on November 3^rd. The participants come from different Regional African Organizations namely: 5 from AU Commission; 4 from COMESA; 4 from IGAD; 3 from SADEC; 2 from ECOWAS, and 2 from Sahel & Sahara Organization. The Francophone training program will be convened later during the period 13^th. Nov to 15^th Dec. 2006.  

 The training program aims at meeting the needs of the AU Commission and those of the African regional economic organizations in upgrading the abilities of participants to work for African coordination and economic integration which are the key elements for economic and social development in Africa. The training program tackles the theoretical background and the applications for these issues, and handles the problems and challenges facing the transformation of the African economy into a healthier one.

 Similar training program for 40 participants from AU Commission were financed by BADEA back in 2004. The first was convened for Anglo-phones (Jan 19^th – Feb 20^th), and the other for Franco-phones (Mar 22^nd – Apr 23^rd). Both programs were real success in as much as course contents and program organization were concerned.