• Legislative link to UN ECOSOC – it is a subsidiary commission of ECOSOC
• Member States agree on regional standard setting

Committees

• Committee on Macroeconomic Policy, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Development;
• Committee on Trade and Investment;
• Committee on Transport;
• Committee on Environment and Development;
• Committee on Information and Communications Technology;
• Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction;
• Committee on Social Development;
• Committee on Statistics

• Review and analyse regional trends;
• Identify priorities and emerging issues and consult on regional approaches, taking into consideration subregional aspects;
• Promote regional dialogue, including its subregional synergies, and an exchange of experiences on policies and programmes;
• Consider common regional positions as inputs to global processes and promote regional follow up to their outcomes;
• Propose issues for consideration by the Commission as possible resolutions;
• Monitor the implementation of Commission resolutions;
  
• Promote a collaborative approach to addressing the development challenges of the region, where appropriate, between Governments and civil society, the private sector and the United Nations and other international institutions at the regional and subregional levels.