Regional integration

APDI shares the common believe that regional integration in Africa is the one of the most efficient way to eradicate the poverty misery which dominates the affair of the continent. 
In fact, the concept of regional integration is not new or foreign to Africans. 
Rather, its practical implementation is what has proved to be a tussle for the leaders of the Africa since the inauguration  in 25th May, 1968 ushering the formation of the Organization of African unity (OAU). 
Despite the challenges on the part of our Leaders in making the concept of regional integration a reality and of which same has drained the interests of most Africans therein, our association believes that the concept must not be abandoned. We seeks to join the common effort to make the concept of regional integration a reality, however with a different approach.
Our approach aims to make a paradigm shift from those approach or strategy knowingly used by the managers  of the continent.
 As an infant association, our initial focus is on properly structuring the foundational ground on which regional integration can be laid, which principally borders on making the concept known to the masses of Africans and also dealing with those elementary obstacles which work against the concept i.e., mindset and attitude of Africans. That propelled the association to set up this website to harbour deeply written philosophical topics and works of other academic scholars on the subject of unity in Africa: Pan-Africanism, regional integration and other related topics, what facilitates and militates against it.  The paradigm shifts also involves inculcating while motivating the private individuals and traders to push for the concept in Africa in place of the government. With the general perception surrounding the concept of regional integration as a foreign imported government agenda , this association seeks to wash out that perception by undertaking projects which would in the long run encourage the private industries in Africa to invest and promote cross-border trade on a large scale.  
To that end, those projects undertaken by APDI as one means to lay down the said foundation would at the same time  propel investment in human capital as a means to facilitate economic growth across the continent of Africa. 
At the beginning , these projects would be largely one of commerce with limited social-related projects. The commercial projects undertaken would be strategic ones broken down into short and long-term projects. The short-term commercial projects, based on the available resources of the association, would be geared towards investment in commercial activities as well as that of commercial ideas harbored by genius and passionate young ones within the continent and furthering leading hands to small-scale manufacturing (industry) business to be able to expand into large-scale industries.  The expansion of the said industries into large-scale industries would involve enlarging the capital of the industries to import the necessary raw materials and human resources from within the continent as well as exporting to its fellow African countries and potentially reliable countries outside the African continent. And those would be the long-term objectives of the projects.
The profit recouped from the commercial projects would be subsequently reinvested in other projects (this time around either social, health, research, commercial, or others). 
As part of the internal organization and management, part of the profit derived therein would seek to aid the association in its internal funding as well as render it financially independence and sound to be capable of executing its objectives.
 Conscious enough of the temptation of the monetary profit to induce  the leadership as well as the members of the association for their individual gains otherwise for the purpose of furthering the main objectives at hand, the strategic plan is to carry out the projects in partnership with those who we seek to invest in their business adventure.  This would lessen the temptation on the part of the members to act in breach of its objectives as well as in excess of the powers imposed on all companies limited by guarantee under the Ghanaian law.
As a whole, we believe the projects undertaken would contribute towards the reduction of high rate of unemployment in Africa as well as helping in the industrialization of our continent; the foundation for the promotion of Pan-Africanism and regional integration.