Innovative finance: building forward to the Sustainable Development Goals : concept note

Abstract

The Africa Business Forum is convened each year in Addis Ababa, the diplomatic capital of Africa, on the margins of the ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union. The Forum is intended to promote a continuing dialogue between the African private and public sector on current matters of strategic importance to the African continent. The AfCFTA Adjustment Facility will ensure African leadership and African control, and prioritize the mobilization of African funding to address African challenges. There will also be engagement, however, with like-minded international partners that will support our objectives under the AfCFTA Agreement. The key importance of the AfCFTA pharmaceutical initiative, consisting in its ability to enlist the private sector in playing a critical role in addressing market distortions in the health sector, was amply demonstrated by the findings of the feasibility and pooled procurement reports.