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  Pillars of ATPC
 

1: Providing Fully Integrated Trade Capacity Building for RECs

 

2: Providing Comprehensive Capacity Building for Trade Constituencies

 

3: Mainstreaming Cross-Cutting Items

 
  ATPC Services
 

:: Set up Trade Policy Units in RECs

  :: Undertake Research
  :: Promote Training on Trade Issues
  :: Undertake Information Dissemination
  :: Provide Advisory Services and Technical Cooperation
  :: Facilitate Consensus Building
  :: Create Partnerships for Trade
 

:: Mainstream HIV/ AIDS, Gender and Environment into ATPC Activities

 

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  Did you know that?
 

On average, 95% of the members of a regional economic community in Africa belong to another community.
Source: Aria II, ECA.

 
 
  Interim Economic Partnership Agreements Point to the Classic Regional Trade Agreements after all: Should African countries really be worried?

 

The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements


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Trade Facilitation -Single Window Workshop, 15-16 October 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   
 
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Development Partners Commit over $US1 billion of Funding at North-South Corridor Conference

Africa's development partners have committed more than US $1 billion to upgrade road, rail and port infrastructure under the North-South Pilot Aid Project. The commitment came during the High-Level North-South Corridor Aid for Trade Conference held in Lusaka , Zambia from 6-7 April 2009.

 

ECA launches e-Commerce platform as African trade and transport officials begin discussions on Aid for Trade strategies
Addis Ababa, 12 March 2009 (ECA) – The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will launch the Pan African Alliance on E-Commerce to intensify cooperation and initiate common projects of interest in African countries, as part of a two-day workshop on Trade Facilitation and Aid for Trade opens in Addis Ababa today.

 

Workshop on Trade Facilitation and Aid for Trade: Sustaining Trade Facilitation Gains Through Effective Aid for Trade Strategies
Addis Ababa , 12-13 March 2009

 

ECA and UNCTAD Course Highlighted Key Issues on International Economic Agenda
ECA Press Release No. 10/2009
Cairo, Egypt, 23 February 2009 – Better understanding of the infrastructure necessary to foster competitiveness and the relevance of transportation to trade and key issues in international trade negotiations and regionalism were the focus of the United Nations Economic Commission on Africa's (UNECA) presentations during a three-week workshop held recently.

 

ATPC News [ Version française ]
Januray-March 2009, Vol 1, No. 2
In this edition: Experts Call on ATPC to Support Creation of an African Alliance for Electronic Trade, Africa’s Expectations from Aid for Trade Discussed at Workshop in Bonn, ECA-CA and ATPC strengthen capacity in Cameroon on regional integration issues and instruments in Central Africa, and more...

 

The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) Discusses Africa's Expectations from Aid for Trade at Workshop in Bonn

ECA Press Release No. 40/2008

Addis Ababa - 1 December 2008 – A representative of the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC), which is based at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently attended a workshop in Bonn, Germany to discuss African (member States and Regional Economic Communities (RECs)) expectations from the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative.
 


ECA Executive Secretary urges Africa to find ways of using trade in a proactive and dynamic manner during Doha “Roundtable on International Trade as an Engine of Development”

UN Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Abdoulie Janneh, participated in the Roundtable on International Trade as an Engine of Development during the second day of Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus in Doha.

 


ECA-CA and ATPC strengthen capacity in Cameroon on regional integration issues and instruments in Central Africa.

On 17-19 November 2008, the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) and ECA's Trade Finance and Economic Development Division (TFED) contributed to a capacity-building seminar on the concepts and operating modes of regional integration instruments in Central Africa.

 
Experts Call on the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) to Support the Establishment of an African Alliance for Electronic Trade

ECA Press Release No. 32/2008
Addis Ababa 18 November (ECA) - The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) and the ICT and Science & Technology Division (ISTD) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) participated actively at the International Single Window Conference that was held in Dakar, Senegal, from 5-7 November 2008.

 

"African Trade Policy Centre begins work again with a new regional focus"

ECA Press Release No. 27/2008 
Addis Ababa, 31 October 2008 -ECA)-: The second phase of the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC II) has been launched with programming missions to the Secretariats of the East African Community (EAC) from 8-9 September 2008 and Southern African Development Community (SADC) from 25-26 September 2008. A similar mission is planned to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by the end of 2008. [Version française]
 


First Edition of ATPC II News Launched

ATPC II has launched its new newsletter ATPC II News [Version française]. This edition of the newsletter is dedicated to ATPC II programming missions to the East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariats, and proposals on an African template for the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between African countries and the EU prepared by ATPC and discussed at a workshop in Addis Ababa from 8-10 October 2008. The newsletter also reports on a recent mission of a team from the Gender Equality and African Regional Institution Project (GEARI) to Addis Ababa, and ATPC studies and events on trade facilitation.

 


African Workshop on Economic Partnership Agreements – Reaping the benefits of the EPAs

Taking Stock of the Interim Agreements to ensure African Countries Reap the Benefits of the EPAs
8-10 October 2008, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

:: Statement by Mr. Abdoulie JANNEH
:: Documents

:: Photo Gallery
:: Press Releases ( 19/2008 and 21/2008)

 


The Gender Equality and African Regional Institution Project (GEARI) Undertakes Second Mission to ATPC

A team from the Gender Equality and African Regional Institution Project (GEARI) visited the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) in Addis Ababa from 7-16 October 2008. The GEARI team, composed of Nancy Spence and Constance Kunaka, was received by Mr. Abdoulahi Mahamat, the Officer-in –Charge of the Trade, Finance and Economic Development Division (TFED) and also had several working sessions with ATPC staff members.

 


ATPC II launched with Programming Missions to EAC and SADC Secretariats

As part of activities to launch the second phase of the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC II), a programming mission was undertaken to the Secretariat of the East African Community (EAC) in Arusha, Tanzania from 8-9 September 2008. A similar mission was undertaken to the Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Gaborone, Botswana from 25-26 September 2008. The purpose of the missions was to reach agreements on the modalities for setting up Trade Policy Units (TPUs) at EAC and SADC, and to prepare implementation plans for ATPC II funded activities.

 


ECA/ATPC Organises Workshop on Trade Facilitation and Study Tour to the Port of Djibouti

Addis Ababa, 9 May 2008- The Trade, Finance and Economic Development Division (TFED) of ECA and African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) organized a workshop on trade facilitation as well as a study tour to the Port of Djibouti and two border posts between Ethiopia and Djibouti on 5 and 6 May 2008.