Trade

The world economy is characterized by an increasing value of trade and financial flows facilitated mostly by improved scientific processes and technological links. Africa is regarded as being marginalized from these flows and processes and ECA will provide support to African countries by helping them to gain better outcomes from globalization, including improved access to markets, scientific knowledge and ICTs. ECA has very strong capacities on trade issues including international negotiations, mainstreaming development in trade and vice-versa, identifying policies that could help African countries deepen their export capacities among others. These capacities have enabled the ECA, through the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) to provide technical support to the African countries in multilateral (WTO) and bilateral (EPA) negotiations. ECA also has extensive experience in providing technical support on trade to African countries. The technical support is underpinned by a strong desire to help African countries identify policies to build export capacities to exploit the market access likely to result from the negotiations. To ensure the attainment of desired outcomes, the ECA complements the technical work and support to African countries with strong advocacy. The advocacy element has been assured through the building of very strong collaborations with regional and international organizations.

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