Cooperation Agreements

CRCICA is active in signing cooperation agreements, partnerships and alternative hearing facility agreements with a number of notable international and regional organisations, Chambers of Commerce and arbitral institutions, including major arbitral institutions such as the ICC, ICSID, the SCC (Stockholm), and the AAA, as well as others located in Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Italy, Kuwait, Poland, Romania, Sudan, and the UAE. CRCICA has signed since its establishment more than 90 Cooperation agreements to date.

Since its establishment, the Centre has concluded dozens of institutional cooperation agreements, partnerships, and alternative hearing facility agreements with a number of notable international and regional organisations and arbitral institutions.

CRCICA is Africa’s institutional representative in the Belt and Road Initiative on Arbitration concluded in 2017 with the Beijing International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) and the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC).

On 4 July 2012, CRCICA entered into a cooperation agreement with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where CRCICA became an alternative hearing centre for CAS. At the time, it was the first institution in Africa and the sixth institution around the world to be considered as a CAS Alternative Hearing Centre (click here for the press release).