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News Archive |
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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. |
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 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. |
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 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... |
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 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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 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 |
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 "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] |
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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. |
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Taking Stock of the Interim Agreements to ensure African Countries Reap the Benefits of the EPAs
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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