Africa
We assist African countries to achieve sustainable development by providing policy advice, technical assistance and mobilizing international support for the continent.
Africa
We assist African countries to achieve sustainable development by providing policy advice, technical assistance and mobilizing international support for the continent.
Africa is attracting investment in strategic industries. The challenge is turning it into broader industrial development
Africa’s next development chapter will depend not only on the volume of investment, but also on how effectively it is transformed into jobs, technology transfer, industrial upgrading and economic diversification.
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- Support to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
- Illicit Financial Flows
- Productive capacities
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- Productive capacities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Support for the development of the Cotonou-Niamey Corridor (Benin section)
- Mainstreaming climate-resilient blue economy in the BCLME Region
- Attracting finance and investment for the energy transition in Africa
- Promoting participation of SMEs in regional value chains
- Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows
- Measurement of IFFs and policy formulation in Ghana, Namibia and Zambia
- EU-UNCTAD joint programme for Angola: Train for Trade II
- Developing programmes to build productive capacities and enhance linkages with China
- Facilitation of transit transport and trade in West Africa
- Coherent strategies for productive capacity development in African LDCs
- Investment incentives for local production of essential antibiotics in East Africa
Meetings
11 August 2026
Webinar on financing development: external flows of financial capital to developing countries and their cost
Online, Ethiopia
23 – 24 July 2026
Technical workshop to advance transit, transport and digitalization reforms along the Cotonou–Niamey Corridor
Cotonou, Benin
24 – 25 June 2026
National validation workshop on the Vulnerability Profile of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda
15 June 2026
High Level Thematic Policy Engagement: Positioning Services as a Pathway to Structural Transformation in LDCs
3rd Floor Conference room, UNDP RSCA office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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