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Bookmark this page www.oecd.org/daf/investment/africa
The Communiqué on Africa adopted by G8 Heads of State in July 2005 at Gleneagles stated that "African countries need to build a much stronger investment climate: we will continue to help them do so, including through the promotion of a stable, efficient and harmonised legal business framework", noting "the improvement of the investment climate through the OECD/NEPAD Investment Initiative".
The Initiative, launched in Johannesburg in November 2003, aims to foster sustainable growth, employment creation and poverty reduction by advancing private sector development in African countries. The Initiative has three distinct objectives:
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To support African government efforts to develop an integrated policy roadmap based on concrete measures for improving the investment climate in African countries;
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To raise the profile and image of Africa as a place in which to invest, to facilitate regional co-operation among African countries and to give an African voice in international dialogue on policies for investment; and,
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To strengthen and support African countries’ own capacity to design, implement and advance a result-oriented national reform agenda to improve the investment climate.
The Initiative uses the Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) and other tools and instruments to identify where the obstacles to investment lie, to assess where the priorities for reform need to focus and as a basis for building capacity in African countries for investment climate assessment. The Executive Heads of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and NEPAD Secretariats endorse further exploring the use of the PFI in support of the APRM process.
For further information, see the overview and PowerPoint presentation.
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) www.unctad.org
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Contact information
Requests for further information, including details on how to participate in the Initiative and its Steering Group can be addressed to the NEPAD and OECD Secretariats.
From the NEPAD secretariat:
Mr Karim Khalil, Co-ordinator
e-mail karimk@nepad.org; Tel: +27 (11) 313 3625; Fax +27 (11) 313 3583
From the OECD secretariat:
Mr Jonathan Coppel, Executive Programme Manager
e-mail: Jonathan.Coppel@oecd.org; Tel: +33 (0) 145241447; Fax +33 (0) 144306135
Mr Toru Homma, Project Manager
e-mail: Toru.Homma@oecd.org; Tel: +33 (0) 145248448; Fax +33 (0) 144306135
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