Addis Ababa, 7 May 2018 (ECA) – The Economic Commission for Africa and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) will hold on 13 May in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) a panel discussion on capacity imperatives and training systems needed for countries to implement the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).
Accra, 2 May 2018 (ECA) - Over 40 delegates from 33 African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries were joined by representatives from the regional economic communities, the private sector, U.S government officials, the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and trade experts in Accra, Ghana for the AGOA Capacity Building and Skills Development Workshop.
The workshop was organized by the ECA African Trade Policy Center, the African Union Commission, and the Government of Ghana.
Addis Ababa, 17 April 2018 (ECA) - The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) hosted in collaboration with the Walvis Bay Group, the second African Corridor Management Alliance (ACMA) board meeting on the 11th of April in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Addis Ababa, 18 April 2018 (ECA) – A two-day workshop to review draft chapters of a book that documents the evolution of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) kicked off on Wednesday, 18 April 2018, at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The workshop is organized by the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) in collaboration with the Centre for Trade Policy and Law (Carleton University, Canada).
The purpose of the present policy brief is to analyse Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy in the context of trade and development cooperation with Africa and explore the areas in which policy and programming synergies may offer opportunities for increased African-Canadian engagement.
Africa and India are increasingly becoming more prominent partners in each other’s trade with significant growth in the market shares of their respective imports and exports. The advent of globalization and increased trade integration has strengthened trade between the two partners. There is recognition on both sides of the importance of the other as a market and as a long-term trade partner, especially with regard to global value chains.
Kigali, 21 March 2018 (ECA) - “With the signature of the Kigali Declaration for the Launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area, Africa makes a giant stride forward in continental integration, in the pan-African vision, and in the development of our continent”, said Vera Songwe, the Executive Secretary of the ECA.