AFSEC Strategic Plan 2025 - 2029

AFSEC Vision

AFSEC’s vision is to...

To be the reference point for electrotechnical standardization and conformity assessment for sustainable trade and development for Africa

AFSEC Mission

AFSEC’s Mission is to...

To Develop, adopt and promote the use of harmonized Standards and Conformity Assessment Systems to enhance inter-Africa trades of products and services, ensure the safety, efficiency, reliability and interoperability of electrical, electronic and information technologies and facilitate reliable energy access for sustainable development.

AFSEC Mandates

Mandates

Recommending

Recommending harmonized standards for implementation.

Harmonizing

Harmonizing existing standards to African conditions.

Developing

Developing the conformity assessment of electrical equipment.

Identification

Identification and prioritization of standard’s needs.

Identifying,

Identifying, in case of need, draft standards to be developed by AFSEC.

Strategic Goals

Strategic Goal 1:

Support AU Agenda 2063

  • To deliver outputs that are relevant to and support the objectives of the AU Agenda 2063 and to respond to the needs of the Regional economic Communities, through relevant and effective electrotechnical standardization and Conformity Assessment,

Strategic Goal 2:

Cooperation with the African Continental Free Trade Agreement AfCFTA

  • Including cooperation with related parties in the development and effective implementation of obligations under Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) aiming to facilitate trade by removing different technical obstacles and opening new markets.

Strategic Goal 3:

Collaborate with partners and stakeholders

  • To identify related standards that can be harmonized, and generate necessary interest among African countries to utilize the standards, after reviewing them for adoption as AFSEC Harmonized Regional standards,

Strategic Goal 4:

Competence of NSB/NECs

  • aiming to foster the all stakeholders in standardization processes and Conformity Assessment through their NECs by creating systems which can attract Industry , academia and power utilities to participate through Technical committees, grooming expertise in the development of standards

Why Harmonized Standardization is important for the African Continent

Why Harmonized Standardization is important for the African Continent

  • Improve cost effective sustainable access to electricity.
  • Improve technical skills covering electro-technical fields.
  • Develop informed users of electro-technical Standards.
  • Increase the efficiency of the industrial processes achieving considerable savings in the design and improving quality products and services.
  • Support conformity systems for improved quality products.
  • Facilitate the trade on the African continent by removing the different technical barriers thus opening up new markets and furthering economic integration and economic growth within AfCFTA (annex 6 TBT).
  • Provide the framework to promote harmony; by collective cooperation among IEC full members and IEC affiliates in Africa.
  • Contribute to the improvement of the health and safety of persons and to the protection of the environment in Africa.