DST Patrick Ocailap leads Uganda’s delegation to Zimbabwe for the 63rd EXCOM meeting.

The Macroeconomic & Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) successfully held its 63rd Executive Committee (EXCOM) meeting at the MEFMI Headquarters in Harare, Zimbabwe.

 In attendance was the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury - Mr. Patrick Ocailap, EXCOM Chair, Governor of The Bank of Mozambique, Mr Rogerio Zandamela, Vice Chair, who is the Bank of Tanzania Governor, Mr. Emmanuel Tutuba, ex officio member, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr. John Mushayavanhu, as well as Permanent Secretaries from Zambia and Mr. Maketo Mulele, The Kenya National Treasury was represented on the Committee by the Director, Resource Mobilisation, Mr Amos Cheptoo

Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, Patrick Ocailap while in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 18^th -21^st August,2025) while attending the Executive Committee Meeting for Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute (MEFMI) of Eastern and Southern Africa with other member discussed and considered a number of issues including; the Audited financial statements, financial sustainability, relevance of the Institute and Member States subscriptions.

The recommendations from the Executive Committee will go to the Governors, who are the Finance Ministers of 14 Member States of the Institute.

Mr. Patrick Ocailap (M) with other delegates during the meeting in Harare

MEFMI is a regionally owned capacity development organisation with 14 members countries.

The mandate of MEFMI is to build sustainable human and institutional capacity and also foster best practices for prudent macroeconomic and financial management.

It also supports sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction in member countries.

Uganda is a founder member of MEFMI. Other members are: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The group photo