Yaounde, 9 December 2020 (ECA) – Transforming Central Africa’s transport corridors into all-encompassing development corridors is crucial for moving to the region’s next development and integration frontier, especially at the dawn of free trade in Africa but it is a more complex proposition which needs continuing engagement with State and non-state parties.
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Visitor/audience link to the event: https://live.kudoway.eu/br/110217058925
Yaounde/Addis Ababa, 8 December 2020, ECA – The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) are organizing a webinar with the financial support of the European Union to discuss the role e-commerce can play in the era of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Yaounde, 4 December 2020 (ECA) – How can Central African countries reconfigure existing transport highways which interconnect them, while building and linking new ones in a way that engines and supports structurally transformative economic activities along and near these routes?
Meeting link: https://bit.ly/dev-corr
For decades, the notion of corridors in Africa in general, and in Central Africa in particular, has been solely about transport networks consisting of major roads essentially linking areas of raw material production to ports of export and linking these same ports to areas of consumption of imported finished products. As a result, the criteria that prevailed in the selection of corridors did not always include the dimension of profitability and economic potential.
This expert group meeting (EGM) will review the ECA-GSMA joint study on “The Role of mobile services in enabling e-commerce in Central Africa and policy implications” and provide comments towards its finalization. The group of experts will, specifically:
Yaounde, 15 November 2020, (ECA) – A timely call to observe the years 2021 to 2030 as The Decade for Economic Diversification in Central Africa has been squarely heeded to by senior state officials across the sub-region led by the Minister of Planning, Statistics and Regional Integration of the Republic of Congo – Ingrid Olga Ghislaine Ebouka-Babackas.
Yaounde, 13 November 2020 (ECA) – A major paradigm shift in formal and hands-on training is required in Central Africa if the region is to successfully diversify its economies, ministers, dons, development experts and senior UN officials have agreed.