Current EAC efforts to develop regional infrastructures are complemented at the continental level by such initiatives as the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA), established in 2005 and mandated to support and promote increased investment in infrastructure in Africa from both public and private sources. In addition, with the implementation of the EAC Common Market Protocol, regional infrastructural projects will be well defined.
  Ladies and Gentlemen, it is worth noting that the overriding rationale for regional integration is development, with all the benefits that come with it. Theoretically, integration fosters growth through different channels such as increasing innovation through economies of scale and through technological spillovers and elimination of replication in research and development.