The Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have been identified by the African Union as the key vectors for the successful regional integration in Africa. It is therefore critical that the RECs develop the necessary capacity to support the regional integration agenda of the continent. It is to assess progress towards the development of this capacity that, the African Development Bank Group, as part of its support to capacity development in Africa and to ACBF as the premier capacity development institution of the continent, agreed to support an update and a further improvement of the exercise conducted by ACBF in 2006. The exercise is co-financed by the ACBF and the African Development Bank Group under the Nigeria Trust Fund.