Education and Accreditation is one of COECSA’s main programme pillars. This includes four (4) key areas; Accreditation, Examinations, Training and Curriculum, Train the Trainers (TTT) .It is the mandate of the college’s Education and Accreditation committee to oversee the implementation of all education related programmes.

Research is one of the main objectives of COECSA. A recent study on the trends of publication in Ophthalmology in ECSA region showed that though the number of publication in steadily rising, we are still behind the other low income countries even within Africa. The COECSA Research and scientific committee is committed to see that more ECSA ophthalmologists participate in research, more papers are published from the ECSA region and the research agenda is dictated and owned by the ECSA ophthalmologists.