North Africa

Webinar: AfCFTA and COVID19 mitigation in North African trade strategies

Rabat, 12 October (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa office for North Africa, will hold on Wednesday 14 October 2020 a webinar on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the mitigation of the COVID-19 Impact on trade strategies in North Africa.

Since its appearance in late 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic has severely disrupted trade flows and business operations worldwide, affecting African economies and making it critical for national economies to prioritize regional approaches to development.

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ECA trains Tunisian leaders on use of IPRT tool to facilitate development monitoring

Tunis, 5 October 2020 (ECA) – The Economic Commission for Africa and the Directorate general for multilateral cooperation at the Tunisian Ministry of Economy, Finances and Investment launched on Monday 5 October a two-day workshop on the Application of the Integrated Planning and Reporting Toolkit (IPRT).

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Trade facilitation in North Africa for enhanced regional economic integration: challenges, opportunities and the way forward

Over recent years, the issue of trade facilitation has emerged as an important element of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade debates. The growing importance of this issue has reflected the important structural changes in global production and trade over the last few decades.

Best Practices on Employment Creation (North Africa)

North African economies have achieved a reasonable growth trend and made huge progress in terms of human development in the past two decades, however, formal private sector job creation has not kept up with the rise in young labor force in the region.

This situation is expected to become even more difficult due to the global economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its negative impact on employment across the world including in North Africa.

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Achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda (SDGs) and the African Union 2063 agenda in North Africa

EVENT POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBC

 

Five years after their launch, Implementing the UN Agenda 2030 (SDGs) and the African Union‘s Agenda 2063 remains a major goal in North Africa.

This webinar will present and review the ECA Office for North Africa’s study of the in-depth assessment and analysis of both development agendas’ implementation in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia.

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Innovation and New Technologies in North Africa in the Context of COVID19

COVID-19 has brought many changes across the world, disrupting North Africa’s connections to global value chains and impacting strategic sources of foreign currency. The pandemic has also triggered a deep reorganisation of national strategic priorities, accelerating digitization and generating a strong need for systemic change across the economic fabric.

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