ACP-EU (Intra-ACP programmes)
Implemented in ACP Member States
and Regions
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:
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:
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