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Hub & Spokes Project – Enhancing Trade Capacity Development in ACP States
REG/FED/024-329

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Agreement No.REG/FED/024-329-Hub & Spokes Project – Enhancing Trade Capacity Development in ACP States was signed on 27 May 2013 and has been allocated 12.0 million to be implemented in 72 months.

Additional Contributions:

  • Commonwealth Secretariat: €2.5 million
  • Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF): €1.2 million

Implementation Mode:

Direct Management (Contribution agreements between the EC and the COMSEC and OIF)

Objective

The project’s purpose is to reinforce the capacity of ACP States and regions in the areas of trade policy and trade negotiations and to foster a genuine south-south capacity building model in which ACP trade experts are deployed in foreign ACP States and regions.

Expected results:

  • Key ACP stakeholders trained on trade policy issues;
  • Effective trade policies drafted and relevant international trade agreements successfully negotiated and implemented;
  • National and regional trade networks established and strengthened;
  • Collaboration with donor partners strengthened tom maximize benefits of Aid for Trade opportunities

The Programme is ongoing

The implementation of the programme is expected to end in May 2019.

Beneficiary countries

Regional Trade advisors: AU commission, COMESA Secretariat, EAC Secretariat, OECS Secretariat,  SADC Secretariat, PIF Secretariat, CARICOM, UEMOA,ECOWAS, CEMAC

National Trade advisors: Burundi, FS of Micronesia, Guyana, Malawi, Mauritius, Samoa, Kiribati, Marshal Islands, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Uganda, Kenya, Lesotho, Botswana, Tonga, Jamaica, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo, CAR, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Sao Tome & Principe, Mali, Chad.

For more information, contact: Department of Sustainable Economic Development and Trade