The Ministers encouraged member States to mainstream the Minimum Integration Programme into their national development programmes and , in that regard , called upon the African Union , the regional economic communities , ECA , the African Development Bank ( AfDB ) and development partners to scale up their support for the implementation of the Minimum Integration Programme and domestication of regional integration instruments into national policy , legal and regulatory frameworks . They further encouraged member States to continue to support ECA , the African Union Commission and AfDB in publishing the report entitled Assessing Regional Integration in Africa ( ARIA ) , which contains a comprehensive analysis and assessment of progress in regional integration on the continent .