NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative

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NEPAD-OECD Roundtable on Strengthening Investment Climate Assessment and Reform in NEPAD Countries, Lusaka, Zambia, 27-28 November 2007

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: 

• To support African government efforts to develop an integrated policy roadmap based on concrete measures for improving the investment climate in African countries;
• 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,
• 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.

Conferences

• 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 OECD-NEPAD Africa Investment Initiative
• PowerPoint presentation of the OECD-NEPAD Africa Investment Initiative
• OECD-NEPAD Statement
• Policy Framework for Investment
• OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure
• OECD African Economic Outlook 2007 www.oecd.org/dev/publications/africanoutlook
• Investment for Development - 2006 Annual Report
• 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
• Middle East and North Africa Investment Programme www.oecd.org/mena/investment
• South East Europe Investment Compact www.investmentcompact.org
• 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 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