NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative

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The NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative aims to support African countries in improving their capacity to strengthen the investment environment for growth and development in accordance with the UN Monterrey Consensus, taking advantage of OECD's peer learning method and investment instruments of co-operation such as the Policy Framework for Investment (PFI), the most comprehensive multilaterally-backed investment policy instrument.

The Initiative's work has helped NEPAD countries to improve the investment related content of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and enhance capacities to implement investment climate reforms in sensitive sectors such as water and transport infrastructure (see the roundtable web pages for reports: Kampala, 2008; Lusaka, 2007; Brazzaville, 2006).

Strong African ownership drives the Initiative. It is guided by a Steering Group, chaired by NEPAD Executive Head with vice-chairs from South Africa and Japan, and composed of all major NEPAD actors, OECD countries and donors, Regional Economic Communities, NEPAD Business Group and NEPAD Business Foundation, African Partnership Forum, OECD Development Assistance Committee, Investment Climate Facility, World Bank, UNCTAD and other partner organisations.

The Initiative will continue its role as a facilitator of region-wide dialogue on investment policy. In its second phase (2009-11), it will go further to focus on PFI-based peer reviews of pilot countries' investment policies, using two OECD tools: the OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure, as the basis for policy frameworks for regional infrastructure investment; and the OECD Risk Awareness Tool , the basis of multi-stakeholder dialogue on doing business in weak governance zones.

Conferences

• NEPAD-OECD High-Level Meeting and Expert Roundtable, Johannesburg, South Africa, 11-12 November 2009
• NEPAD-OECD High-Level Meeting on Advancing Investment Policy Reform in Africa, Kampala, Uganda, 10-11 December 2008
• NEPAD-OECD Roundtable on Strengthening Investment Climate Assessment and Reform in NEPAD Countries, Lusaka, Zambia, 27-28 November 2007
• Conference on Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption: New Frontiers in Public-Private Partnerships, Brussels, Belgium, 14-15 March 2007
• NEPAD-OECD Roundtable on Mobilising Private Investment in Africa in Support of Development: Laying the Foundations for Sustained Progress, 12-13 December 2006 - Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
• NEPAD/OECD Investment Policy Roundtable on Investment for African Development: Making it Happen, Entebbe, Uganda, 25-27 May 2005
• NEPAD/OECD Conference on Alliances for Integrity – Government and Business Roles in Enhancing African Standards of Living, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-8 March 2005
• OECD-Africa Investment Roundtable, Johannesburg, South Africa, 19 November 2003

Documents and links

Documents

• Overview of the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative  
• Investment in Transport Infrastructure, December 2008
• OECD-NEPAD Statement, November 2003   

OECD policy tools

• Policy Framework for Investment
• OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure
• Promoting Private Investment for Development: the Role of ODA
• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises  
• OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises in Weak Governance Zones 
• OECD Convention Against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions 
• Public Sector Transparency and the International Investor 
• Checklist for Foreign Direct Investment Incentive Policies 
• FDI for Development: Maximising Benefits, Minimising Costs

Links

• NEPAD website www.nepad.org
• African Development Bank www.afdb.org
• European Commission http://ec.europa.eu
• OECD Middle East and North Africa Investment Programme www.oecd.org/mena/investment
• OECD African Economic Outlook www.africaneconomicoutlook.org
• Other OECD work on Africa www.oecd.org/africa  
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) www.unctad.org
• World Bank www.worldbank.org
• World Bank Doing Business Database www.doingbusiness.org
• World Bank Public Private Dialogue www.publicprivatedialogue.org

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 Victor Mathale, Advisor
e-mail victorm@nepad.org; Tel: +27 (11) 313 3384; Fax +27 (11) 313 3583

 

From the OECD secretariat:
Mr Karim Dahou, Executive Programme Manager
e-mail: karim.dahou@oecd.org; Tel: +33 (0) 145241938; Fax +33 (0) 144306135
Ms Kerri Elgar, Project Manager
e-mail: kerri.elgar@oecd.org; Tel: +33 (0) 145249371;  Fax +33 (0) 144306135

Ms Nana Shodu, Project Coordinator
e-mail: nana.shodu@oecd.org; Tel: +33 (0) 145241781;  Fax +33 (0) 144306135