Yaounde/ Dakar/ Geneva/ Addis-Ababa, 9 March 2021 (ECA) – Understanding the challenges of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreements “is a question of putting an end to the paradox of an Africa which abounds in natural resources but whose populations are struggling to get out of poverty , said Ms Brusil Miranda Metou, Secretary General of Cameroon’s Ministry Trade, on Monday 8 March, 2021.
Ms Metou was addressing some fifty experts and representatives of the Cameroonian private sector who are participating in an online training to fully grasp the objectives, scope and negotiation process of the AfCFTA as well as its expected impact on the socio-transformation of Cameroon.
Libreville/Yaounde, 25 January 2020 (ECA) – In collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has kick-started a process to enable Gabon reap unprecedented development gains from its rich rain forests and other natural resources. This, through the sustainable transformation of, and a methodical audit of such endowments.
Experts of ECA s Office for Central Africa and advisors in the Gabonese Ministry of Water, Forests, the Sea and Environment, on Friday rounded-off a two day online meeting to fully explicate the stakes of a US$1million two-year project in this regard, funded by the Joint SDG Fund (JSDGF), to involved parties from several other ministries, the private sector, development organisations and conservation NGOs.
Yaounde, 19 December 2020 (ECA) – The alarmingly high rates of food importation in Central Africa should be a phenomenon of the past, economists and agriculturalists argued Thursday.
This, because all countries of the subregion are abundantly blessed with arable land and ecological zones favorable for animal protein production, necessary for developing strong agricultural value chains that should bring greater prosperity to the subregion in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
The assertion came out of an online session to review of a scoping study by the Subregional Office for Central Africa and the Private Sector Development and Finance Division of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), titled “Making the most of the African Continental Free Trade Area through in-depth analyzes of regional value chains and strategic agro-industrial clusters in Central Africa.”
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Yaounde, 14 December 2020 (ECA) –A new report by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) has outlined practical measures that Governments and key stakeholders in the mobile telephony sector can adopt to boost the subregion’s sustainable development through electronic commerce.
The report titled
The Role of mobile services in Enabling E-commerce in Central Africa and policy
implications” was reviewed in an online meeting today by experts from government, the private sector, academia, the development community and civil society from Africa and Europe, Monday.
It encourages Central African States to overhaul their overall business environment in order to facilitate transactions in the sector which can bring about socially inclusive economic growth.