Private Sector
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2024-03-28T08:43:39ZZambia: infrastructure public-private partnership diagnostic study report
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Zambia: infrastructure public-private partnership diagnostic study report
This diagnostic study assesses Zambia’s public-private partnership (PPP) readiness by examining critical questions that are part of a scorecard organised by thematic headings. The scorecard, developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, constitutes a formidable tool for evaluating a country’s readiness to undertake successful PPPs.
2023-02-01T00:00:00ZUganda: infrastructure public-private partnership diagnostic study report
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49963
Uganda: infrastructure public-private partnership diagnostic study report
This Uganda diagnostic study provides an overview of typologies, challenges, opportunities and risk mitigation for public-private partnerships in infrastructure projects. It is one of the significant outputs of the United Nations Development Account (UNDA).
2023-03-01T00:00:00ZScoping study on infrastructure public–private partnerships in Africa with a focus on Cameroon, Côte d’ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia
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Scoping study on infrastructure public–private partnerships in Africa with a focus on Cameroon, Côte d’ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia
This report examines the status of PPPs in Africa, focusing on six target countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia) and on the prospects for regional and “people-first” PPPs. This report lays the groundwork for more in-depth country diagnostic studies.
2023-03-01T00:00:00ZKenya: infrastructure public-private partnerships diagnostic study report
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49961
Kenya: infrastructure public-private partnerships diagnostic study report
This study examines the current situation for public private partnerships (PPPs) in Kenya and reports on PPP possibilities and prospects. Kenya, as well as Africa as a whole, has significant infrastructure requirement and funding gaps.
2023-02-01T00:00:00ZCameroon: infrastructure public-private partnerships diagnostic report
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49960
Cameroon: infrastructure public-private partnerships diagnostic report
This Cameroon diagnostic study provides an overview of the types, challenges, opportunities and risk mitigation for public-private partnerships in infrastructure projects. It is an output of the United Nations Development Account (UNDA) project Public-Private partnership to Catalyse Infrastructure Development and Innovative Financing for Industrialization in Africa.
2023-03-01T00:00:00ZCôte d’ivoire: partenariats public-privé dans les infrastructures
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Côte d’ivoire: partenariats public-privé dans les infrastructures
Cette étude diagnostique fournit un aperçu des partenariats public-privé (PPP) dans les projets d’infrastructures en Côte d’Ivoire-y compris de leurs types, leurs difficultés, leurs opportunités et l’atténuation des risques associés. Elle rassemble des données de plusieurs secteurs des infrastructures en vue de comprendre pourquoi certains d’entre eux sont plus performants dans le cadre de PPP. Elle examine également le soutien politique et institutionnel accordé aux partenariats public-privé – examen de la réglementation dans différents secteurs d’infrastructure. Elle analyse documentaire des rapports de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), de la Banque mondiale et du Fonds de conseil en infrastructure publique-privée.
2022-10-01T00:00:00ZCôte d’ivoire: infrastructure public-private partnerships
https://hdl.handle.net/10855/49958
Côte d’ivoire: infrastructure public-private partnerships
This diagnostic study gives an overview of public-private partnership (PPPs) in infrastructure projects in Côte d’Ivoire—and their types, difficulties, opportunities, and risk mitigation. It gathers data from various infrastructure sectors to determine why some infrastructure sectors do better under PPPs than others.
2022-10-01T00:00:00ZLibérer le potentiel du secteur privé pour stimuler la croissance verte et la création d’emplois verts en Zambie
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Libérer le potentiel du secteur privé pour stimuler la croissance verte et la création d’emplois verts en Zambie
Le secteur privé en pleine expansion en Afrique, y compris les micro-entreprises, les petites et moyennes entreprises, est bien placé pour stimuler la croissance verte et la création d’emplois qui en découle. Pour que cela se concrétise, le secteur privé doit réorienter ses investissements vers des entreprises et des pratiques vertes et durables. Cela lui permettra de jouer le rôle qui lui revient en aidant les pays à lutter contre la menace et les risques croissants que représentent les niveaux élevés de pauvreté, l’accélération des changements climatiques, la raréfaction et la dégradation des ressources et la perte de capital naturel, y compris la biodiversité. Le présent rapport a pour objet de renforcer la base de connaissances sur les entreprises vertes
et durables, et notamment leur rôle dans la croissance verte et la création d’emplois. Il renforce l’argumentation en faveur des interventions de l’État et d’autres mesures prises pour libérer la croissance verte et la création d’emplois tirées par le secteur privé en Zambie. Le rapport met l’accent sur les possibilités de développement des investissements des entreprises
vertes dans quatre secteurs différents : l’énergie, l’agriculture, l’industrie manufacturière et la gestion des déchets. On trouve dans le rapport un examen des entreprises et des investissements verts existants ainsi que les mesures, les incitations et les conditions nécessaires pour stimuler l’investissement vert, la croissance verte, la création d’emplois verts et assurer la résilience face aux chocs, en particulier ceux qui sont liés aux changements climatiques, à la dégradation du capital naturel, y compris la perte de biodiversité, et à la raréfaction et à l’épuisement des ressources.
2023-06-01T00:00:00ZUnleashing the potential of the private sector to drive green growth and job creation in Zambia
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Unleashing the potential of the private sector to drive green growth and job creation in Zambia
The growing private sector in Africa, including micro-, small- and medium-enterprises, is well positioned to boost green growth and associated job creation. For this to materialize, the private sector needs to redirect investment to green and sustainable businesses and practices. This would enable the private sector to play its rightful part in assisting countries to combat the growing
threat and risks posed by high levels of poverty, accelerating climate change, resource scarcity and degradation and loss of natural capital, including biodiversity. This report is intended to strengthen the knowledge base on green and sustainable businesses, including their role in green growth and job creation. It builds the case for policy interventions and
other measures to unlock private sector-led green growth and job creation in Zambia. The report focuses on the potential to upscale green business investment in four selected sectors: energy, agriculture, manufacturing and waste management.
The report documents and examines existing green businesses and investment and the measures, incentives and conditions needed to spur green investment, green growth, job creation and to ensure resilience to shocks, particularly those related to climate change, degradation of natural capital, including biodiversity loss, and resource scarcity and depletion.
2023-06-01T00:00:00ZECA to partner with private sector in effort to spur growth in Africa, says Songwe
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ECA to partner with private sector in effort to spur growth in Africa, says Songwe
The Economic Commission for Africa will soon be partnering with the private sector to ensure the sector plays a role in delivering growth and prosperity in Africa. In remarks during a meeting with the Fifth Committee, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly responsible for administrative and budgetary matters that is currently in Addis Ababa, ECA Executive Secretary Vera Songwe said the private sector has a critical role to play as the engine of economic growth in Africa. Ms. Songwe gave the committee a strategic overview of work of the ECA, on-going efforts to restructure the organization, including regional Commissions, and related issues. She highlighted topical issues on the ECA’s focus, including supporting member States to implement Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the African Union’s 50-year development plan, Agenda 2063; post-Cotonou Agreement negotiations; migration; climate change; gender; agriculture; energy; trade and regional integration, especially following the recent signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in Kigali, Rwanda, by 44 countries. The committee later toured the ECA’s award-winning Print Shop, the iconic Africa Hall that is undergoing renovations for better utilization of this famous landmark venue.
2018-04-01T00:00:00ZEthiopia and ECA sign agreement to kick-start Africa Hall renovations
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Ethiopia and ECA sign agreement to kick-start Africa Hall renovations
The Economic Commission for Africa and Ethiopia on Friday signed an agreement marking the beginning of renovations to modernize the iconic Africa Hall, the birthplace of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) which is now the African Union. ECA Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, and Ethiopia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hirut Zemene Kasa, signed the agreement to pave way for the renovations which will cost $57 million resulting in the modernization of the hall’s facilities to international standards. Ms. Songwe thanked the government of Ethiopia and UN staff for working tirelessly on the renovation project which she said would not only transform Africa Hall into a rejuvenated, state-of-the-art facility, but also contribute towards preserving and restoring historical and cultural values embedded in its architecture and ensure it serves more African citizens than before. For her part Ms. Zemene Kasa said Ethiopia will work with the ECA on the timely delivery of the project. The two leaders said they were both committed to ensure there were no slippages so that the transformed Africa Hall is delivered on schedule in 2021. ECA’s Director of the Public Information and Knowledge Management Division, Jimmy Ocitti, gave a brief history of the Africa Hall before the signing ceremony, describing the hall as ‘perhaps the single most significant building in the history of Africa’s independence’.
2018-04-01T00:00:00ZAfrica sovereign credit rating review: 2022 End of year outlook
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Africa sovereign credit rating review: 2022 End of year outlook
This 6th edition of the African Union – African Peer Review Mechanism (AU-APRM) end of year Sovereign Credit Rating Review Report presents an analysis of the long term foreign currency sovereign credit rating actions in Africa by the three dominant international credit rating agencies (CRAs) – Moody’s, Fitch and S&P Global (S&P) – during the second half of 2022 (2022H2) and makes recommendations to both CRAs and African governments on how credit ratings can be improved. The continent faces a number of challenges to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063 ‘The Africa We Want’. Amongst these challenges is the high borrowing costs, which is keeping most African states out of the financial markets, and this has been exacerbated by the risk of unsustainable debt levels as cited in the ratings actions.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZAfrica Urged to enhance Capacity Building in the Land Sector
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Africa Urged to enhance Capacity Building in the Land Sector
The training helped practitioners to realize that the current set-up of wealthy landowners and poor people on the land is not actually a ‘normal’ arrangement and reflect on the tools that are needed to enable us to imagine a new dispensation around land. The training allowed us to question assumptions. When, as a government, you look at investors from other countries coming in for land deals, you don’t tend to look at the costs in terms of identity, culture and the actual meaning of the land for the community.
2019-10-01T00:00:00ZAfrican ministers to discuss innovative ways to close identity gap in fifth CRVS conference
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African ministers to discuss innovative ways to close identity gap in fifth CRVS conference
All is set for the Fifth Conference of African Ministers responsible for Civil Registration (COM5) which takes place in Lusaka, Zambia. The conference aims to provide strategic and policy guidance on pathways towards holistic, innovative and integrated civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) and digital identity management systems to help close the identity gap in Africa where more than 500 million people have no legal identity. The conference will include discussions on new and emerging initiatives: The United Nations Legal Identity Agenda and the digital identity initiative in Africa, both of which rely on a functioning and efficient CRVS system.
2019-10-01T00:00:00ZMedia has an important responsibility to unpack Africa’s Free Trade Story
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Media has an important responsibility to unpack Africa’s Free Trade Story
The critical role of the media in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) underlined an intense workshop organized by the Economic Commission for Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. The AfCFTA is set to create one of the world's largest single markets, accounting for over $4 trillion in spending and investment across the continent and the media is a crucial stakeholder in creating a conducive public discourse on this agreement, which can support making its potential a reality. This workshop is part of a more extensive project aimed at deepening Africa's trade integration through effective implementation of the AfCFTA.
2019-10-01T00:00:00ZLa 6ème édition de l’atelier pratique « Connected African Girls » à l’honneur pour sa participation inclusive
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La 6ème édition de l’atelier pratique « Connected African Girls » à l’honneur pour sa participation inclusive
Le présent document contient sur les jeunes filles stagiaires en codage et technologie se sont réunies pour célébrer la fin de la 6 édition de l’atelier pratique de codage hybride « Connected African Girls ». L’atelier pratique de codage de sept jours a été organisé par la Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA) en partenariat avec le Gouvernement hôte de la République unie de Tanzanie, ONU FEMMES, l’Union internationale des télécommunications et le Centre Omuka à Dar es Salaam, Tanzanie, le 4 septembre 2022 (CEA). L’atelier a accueilli des centaines de jeunes filles âgées de 12 à 25 ans ayant un vif intérêt pour les domaines STEAM à Dar es Salaam, tandis que des milliers se sont joints virtuellement de toute l’Afrique.
2022-09-01T00:00:00ZSeychelles receives training on IPRT to support alignment of National Development Plans with SDGs and Agenda 2063
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Seychelles receives training on IPRT to support alignment of National Development Plans with SDGs and Agenda 2063
The primary objective of the training is to improve the development planning capacities of Seychelles and to understand the functionalities of the IPRT which include alignment of national development plans with the 2030 SDGs Agenda and Agenda 2063, and monitoring the progress towards the implementation of both agendas.
2022-09-01T00:00:00ZGovernment of Niger and ECA hold a training workshop on ECOWAS Vision 2050
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Government of Niger and ECA hold a training workshop on ECOWAS Vision 2050
The Government of Niger, through the ECOWAS National Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), is organizing from September 6 to 7, 2022 a training of trainers workshop on the ECOWAS Vision 2050. The objective of this meeting is to contribute to a better implementation of the new ECOWAS Agenda 2050 in Niger. For his part, the ECOWAS Country Representative, Mr. N'Dri Guillaume Gnamien, welcomed the organization of this workshop which is part of the ECOWAS Commission's work to popularize the Vision 2050 so that people take its ownership for an effective implementation. As for the Director of the ECA Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, Ngone Diop, she reiterated ECA's continued support for Niger's important endeavors to accelerate its transformational, inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development in an integrated ECOWAS region.
2022-09-01T00:00:00ZThe 6th edition of the Connected African Girls Coding Camp commended for inclusive participation
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The 6th edition of the Connected African Girls Coding Camp commended for inclusive participation
Young girl trainees in coding and technology gathered to celebrate the conclusion of the 6th edition of the Connected African Girls hybrid coding camp. The workshop hosted hundreds of young girls between the ages 12 to 25 with keen interest in the STEAM fields in Dar es Salaam, while thousands joined virtually from across Africa. Trainees completed their 7 days learning and interaction in four practical workshops on animation, gaming, IoT, robotics, and 3D printing, in addition to classes on Gender-Based Violence, UN SDGs, Agenda 2063 and personal development skills. This edition was especially commended for its improved accessibility to trainees with special needs, where 15% of its attendees had access to special assistance to ensure inclusive participation. In total twenty projects were pitched out of which five teams were recognized for their outstanding performances.
2022-09-01T00:00:00ZTogolese government and UNECA launch logo design contest for the African Centre for coordination and research in Cyber security
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Togolese government and UNECA launch logo design contest for the African Centre for coordination and research in Cyber security
The government of the Togolese Republic, under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Digital Transformation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in the facilitation of the Lomé Declaration, launched the contest for the logo design for The African Center For Coordination And Research In Cybersecurity (ACCRC) in Lomé, Togo to be launched in December. The center will be a central regional hub for cybersecurity information and intelligence based in Lomé (Togo) and will act independently and objectively in expertise and activities related to promoting cybersecurity and the investigation of cybercrime in the African continent.
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