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AfDB, AfCFTA secretariat partner to stimulate industries to compete on global scale

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AfDB, AfCFTA secretariat partner to stimulate industries to compete on global scale

The African Development Bank has partnered with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to stimulate industries across the continent.

This was disclosed by the African Development Bank Group President, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, in Abidjan, Cote d’voire on Friday.

According to him, the bank will mainstream the AfCFTA’s into its country and regional integration strategies.

What AfDB is saying about the initiative

The AfDB President said that the Bank will integrate the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) into its country and regional integration strategies.

“The implementation of the free trade area will become a key component of the Bank’s lending program. We want to have a critical mass of AfCFTA-aligned investments.”

Adesina explained that the bank would support the AfCFTA Secretariat in implementing its various trade and industrial workstreams.

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“We have a responsibility to ensure that that the African Continental Free Trade Area is an industrial hub. The zone should become an area for manufacturing, not merely for trading,” Adesina added.

He said the Bank would work closely with the AfCTA Secretariat to ensure that Africa produces at scale.

“We require a large industrial manufacturing zone that generates income and competes on a local and global scale,” the African Development Bank chief said.

The AfCFTA Secretary-General, Wamkele Mene also said the Secretariat would help member states remove trade barriers to boost intra-African trade.

He said, “But we cannot do so without the support of the African Development Bank. We would just be a trading hub with no real output.”

The AfCFTA chief said that the Africa Continental Free Trade Area provided Africa with a great opportunity to develop the necessary infrastructure to support trade and benefit small and medium enterprises.

“We want the initiative to run as an African initiative supported by our heads of state and our development finance institutions,” Mene said.

Adesina assured the AfCTA chief of the Bank’s long-term support for the continental initiative. He said it would provide institutional support, particularly in the areas of industrialization, finance, infrastructure, and logistics.

The Bank and the Secretariat are to put together an Africa industrialization forum for more directed Bank support.

Both leaders agreed to draft a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their relationship and facilitate effective collaboration.

The African Development Fund, the Bank group’s concessional lending arm, provided support for the establishment of the AfCFTA Secretariat in Accra, Ghana through a $5 million institutional grant to the African Union.

Several senior management officials of the Bank participated in Friday’s meeting, including Senior Vice President Bajabulile “Swazi” Tshabalala, Vice-President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Khaled Sherif, Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization Solomon Adegbie-Quaynor, Special Adviser to the President on Industrialization Professor Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, and Director of the Industrial and Trade Development Department, Abdu Mukhtar.

Source: nairametrics
Via: norvanreports
Tags: AfDBAfrican Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)African Development BankBanksregional integration strategies.
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