Activities

ECA's African Capital Markets Development Programme has planned the following activities for its current phase:

1. Three sub-regional workshops aimed specifically at building capacity in the existing capital markets. The workshops are intended to bring together the CEOs of the capital markets, senior policy makers from central banks, ministries of finance, regulatory authorities, and senior capital market practitioners from the private sector such as investment houses, stock broking firms, merchant banks, as well as leading capital market experts from academia.
   
   
2. Training Manuals will be commissioned from leading capital market practitioners to aid the running of the workshops. These will be in-depth studies of the operations of African capital markets and will provide policy recommendations to capital market practitioners on how to address the challenges facing them. These Manuals are separate from the papers and presentations that invited experts will prepare at the workshops.
   
   
3. ECA will hold a Regional Forum in 2004, with participation from all African countries, whether they have capital markets or not. This will be a forum for bringing together ideas and suggestions gathered from the workshops. This Forum will also be used to promote the development of capital markets to those African countries that do not currently have one.
   
   
4. A number of Technical Papers on some of the challenges facing African capital markets will be commissioned from leading experts. The Report and Policy Recommendations of these Technical Papers will be debated at the Forum.