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AFRIQUE : ANALYSE DU RISQUE                           Ces dernières sont surtout exportés non trans-      Il est évident que la CBL-ACP œuvre à cela et
                                                      formés, créant peu de richesse dans les pays        reste pour ce faire au service de ses membres.
Commençons par une constatation qui devrait           d'origine et ne fournissant pratiquement pas
nous interpeller : l'Afrique compte actuelle-         d'emplois sur place. Ici également une riposte      AFRICA: RISK ANALYSIS
ment 1,1 milliard d'habitants et ce chiffre va        au risque évoqué plus haut brille par son
presque doubler d’ici 2050.                           absence.                                            Let's start with an observation that should
                                                                                                          challenge us: Africa currently has 1.1 billion
Le risque dont nous parlons ici est que le            Bref, devant ces résultats déplorables il est né-   inhabitants and this figure will almost double
Continent ne puisse pas développer à temps            cessaire pour tous de revoir sa copie en tenant     by 2050. The risk we are talking about here,
son économie pour avoir les moyens d’édu-             compte de certains critères primordiaux.            is that the Continent will not be able to dev-
quer puis d’employer ces centaines de millions                                                            elop its economy in time to provide the means
de jeunes qui la peupleront demain.                   Ainsi il est grand temps que soit mieux pris        to educate and then employ the hundreds of
                                                      en compte le fait que c’est le secteur privé qui    millions of young people, who will populate it
L’enjeu est de taille car pour intégrer ces nou-      génère l’essentiel des richesses, crée du bien-     tomorrow.
veaux venus sur le marché du travail local,           être et développe par là une classe moyenne
l’économie africaine devrait créer plus de 20         synonyme de développement.                          The stakes are high, because to integrate
millions d'emplois par an d'ici 2050. Vous avez                                                           these newcomers into the local labour mar-
bien lu : plus de 20 millions par an !                C’est aussi lui (et lui seul) qui paiera les pots   ket, the African economy would have to create
                                                      cassés dans le cas d’une évaluation maladroite      more than 20 million jobs per year by 2050.
L'Afrique peut-elle vraiment faire face à ce défi     des possibilités d’un marché.                       You read that right: more than 20 million a
herculéen ? Plusieurs observateurs en doutent.                                                            year! Can Africa really live up to this Herculean
                                                      Voilà pourquoi je clame haut et fort qu’il est      challenge? Many observers doubt it.
Conscient que cette situation risque de dés-          impératif de renforcer le support au secteur
tabiliser tôt ou tard le Continent, avec comme        privé dans sa mission de développement du           Aware that this situation risks destabilizing the
corollaire la guerre, le terrorisme voire l’effon-    marché local au lieu d'injecter toujours plus       Continent sooner or later, with in its wake war,
drement de certains états, l’Europe essaye            d’argent dans l'aide au développement.              terrorism, in other words the collapse of cer-
vaille que vaille de contenir cette situation                                                             tain states, Europe is at any price trying to con-
en important diverses mesures d’aide et de            Et pour éclairer mon propos il est bon de           tain the situation by importing various aid and
soutien.                                              se rappeler que l’argent est timide et insai-       support measures. To do this, Europe has set
                                                      sissable ; qu’il faut le courtiser et surtout le    up, at the level of its administration, various fi-
Pour ce faire l’Europe a mis en place, au niveau      gagner.                                             nancial tools that could be grouped under the
de son administration, divers outils financiers                                                           label of development aid. Among other things
que l’on pourrait regrouper sous le label d’aide      C’est pourquoi le discours trop souvent en-         these tools in principle are meant to locally
au développement.                                     tendu qui prône l’investissement comme pre-         create a favourable climate for investments
                                                      mière mesure à une restauration économique,         and indirectly for training and recruitment.
Ceux-ci doivent entre autres et en principe           est et sera toujours contreproductif.
créer sur place un climat favorable à l’inves-                                                            Intellectual honesty, however, forces us to
tissement et indirectement à la formation et          La sagesse impose de d’abord apprivoiser un         admit, that after six decades of similar efforts
l’embauche.                                           environnement avant d’y œuvrer et en Afrique        the results are more than mixed; unfortunate-
                                                      comme ailleurs cela prend du temps.                 ly the considerable sums injected into these
L’honnêteté intellectuelle nous force cepen-                                                              programmes have not delivered the expect-
dant à admettre qu’après six décennies d’ef-          Il s’agit donc sans retard de protéger les          ed return, to say the least. In parallel and at
forts, le résultat en la matière est plus que miti-   échanges commerciaux existants et surtout           the private level, investments in sub-Saharan
gé et que les sommes considérables injectées          de faciliter l’éclosion de nouvelles relations      Africa are singularly concentrated in a few
dans ces programmes n’ont malheureusement             économiques.                                        countries, rich in natural resources. These raw
pas eu, et de loin, le rendement espéré.                                                                  materials are mainly exported unprocessed,
                                                      Un indispensable climat de confiance se             creating little wealth in the countries of ori-
En parallèle et au niveau privé, les inves-           verra ainsi renforcé et permettra de favo-          gin and providing virtually no local jobs. Here
tissements en Afrique subsaharienne se                riser dans une phase ultérieur l’injection          too, any response to the aforementioned risk
concentrent singulièrement sur quelques               de capitaux tant réclamée par les marchés           is conspicuous by its absence. In short, in the
pays, riches en ressources naturelles.                émergeants.                                         face of these deplorable results it is necessary
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for everyone to return to the drawing board            dan 20 miljoen banen per jaar moeten creëren.       ik luid en duidelijk: het is een absolute nood-
taking into account certain essential criteria.        Je leest het goed: meer dan 20 miljoen per          zaak meer steun te verlenen aan de particu-
                                                       jaar! Kan Afrika deze herculesuitdaging echt        liere sector in zijn missie om lokale markten te
And so, it’s high time to come to terms with the       aan? Vele waarnemers betwijfelen dat.               ontwikkelen, in plaats van steeds meer geld in
fact, that it is the private sector that generates                                                         ontwikkelingshulp te injecteren.
most of the wealth, creates welfare and hence          Wetende dat deze situatie het continent vroeg
a middle class synonymous with development.            of laat dreigt te destabiliseren, met als mo-       En om mijn punt te verduidelijken is het goed
It is also up to this sector (and this sector alone)   gelijk gevolg oorlog, terrorisme en daaraan         om voor ogen te houden, dat geld verlegen
to pick up the pieces after an inept assessment        gekoppeld de ineenstorting van bepaalde             en ongrijpbaar is; dat het moet worden verleid
of any market potential. That is why I say loud        landen, probeert Europa koste wat het kost          en vooral gewonnen. Het al te vaak gehoorde
and clear it is imperative, to reinforce support       de situatie te beheersen door verschillende         pleidooi voor investeringen als eerste stap naar
for the private sector in its mission of devel-        hulp- en ondersteuningsmaatregelen uit te           een economisch herstel, is contraproductief.
oping local markets, instead of continuously           rollen. Daartoe heeft Europa op het niveau
injecting more money into development aid.             van zijn administratie verschillende financiële     De wijsheid gebiedt dat je je eerst aan een om-
                                                       instrumenten opgezet, die onder de noemer           geving gewent, voordat je erin begint te wer-
And to clarify my point, it is good to remem-          van ontwikkelingshulp kunnen worden ge-             ken, en in Afrika - zoals elders - kost dat tijd.
ber that money is shy and elusive, it must be          groepeerd. Deze hulpmiddelen moeten onder
wooed and won. This is why the all too often           andere, en principieel, lokaal een gunstig kli-     Het gaat er dus om de bestaande handel on-
repeated plea for investment as a first step           maat scheppen voor investeringen en indirect        verwijld te beschermen en vooral het ontstaan
towards economic restoration, is and always            voor opleiding en aanwerving.                       van nieuwe economische betrekkingen te
will be counterproductive. Wisdom tells us                                                                 vergemakkelijken. Een essentieel klimaat van
to first get acquainted with an environment            Intellectuele eerlijkheid dwingt ons echter         vertrouwen zal op die manier gestalte krijgen,
before working in it, and in Africa as much as         toe te geven, dat zes decennia van dat soort        waarna het mogelijk wordt om in een latere
elsewhere in the world, that takes time.               inspanningen maar een gemengd resultaat             fase de kapitaalinjectie te bevorderen, waar de
                                                       hebben opgeleverd en dat de aanzienlijke            opkomende markten zoveel nood aan hebben.
Without delay it is a question of protecting           bedragen, die in deze programma's zijn ge-
existing trade and, above all, of facilitating the     ïnjecteerd, helaas niet het verwachte rende-        Het is duidelijk dat het CBL-ACP hier naartoe
emergence of new economic relations. Only              ment hebben gehad. Parallel hiermee zijn            werkt en met dat doel ten dienste blijft staan
henceforth an indispensable climate of trust           op particulier niveau de investeringen in het       van haar leden.
can be established promoting in a later phase          Afrika ten zuiden van de Sahara vooral ge-
the injection of capital so much in demand by          concentreerd gebleven in die landen, die rijk
emerging markets.                                      zijn aan natuurlijke grondstoffen. Die grond-
                                                       stoffen verlaten voornamelijk onbewerkt het
It is obvious that the CBL-ACP is working to-          land van oorsprong, waardoor er ter plaatse
wards this goal and remains at the service of          weinig welvaart ontstaat en er vrijwel geen lo-
its members while doing so.                            kale werkgelegenheid wordt gecreëerd. Ook
                                                       hier schittert een reactie op het hierboven
AFRIKA: RISICOANALYSE                                  genoemde risico door afwezigheid. Kortom,
                                                       in het licht van deze droevige resultaten is een
Laten we beginnen met een observatie die ons           tabula rasa nodig, en een nieuw plan dat reke-
zou moeten uitdagen: Afrika heeft momenteel            ning houdt met bepaalde essentiële criteria.
1,1 miljard inwoners en dit cijfer zal tegen 2050
bijna verdubbelen. Het risico waar we het over         Zo is het de hoogste tijd dat er meer rekening
hebben, is dat het continent economisch niet           wordt gehouden met het feit, dat het de par-
klaar zal zijn, om de honderden miljoenen jon-         ticuliere sector is, die het grootste deel van de
ge mensen, die het morgen zal tellen, op te            rijkdom genereert, welzijn creëert en zo een
leiden en vervolgens in dienst te nemen.               middenklasse doet ontstaan die synoniem
                                                       staat voor ontwikkeling. Het is overigens ook
Er staat veel op het spel, want om deze nieuw-         de privé sector, die zonder externe steun de
komers te integreren in de lokale arbeidsmarkt         prijs zal betalen voor een povere inschatting                    GUY BULTYNCK
zou de Afrikaanse economie tegen 2050 meer             van een of ander marktpotentieel. Daarom zeg                    Chairman CBL-ACP
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                          K E Y FAC T S
                          The United Republic of Tanzania
                  TITRE
                                                 OUGANDA

                                                                          KENYA

                                        RWANDA

                                     BURUNDI

    -POPULATION-
     59 730 000
       (2020)

                                     ZAMBIA

        -HDI-
                                                       MALAWI
    (rank/189): 163
        (2019)
                                                                           MOZAMBIQUE

                            SWOT                                                                 GDP Composition (2020)

                           STRENGTHS                       WEAKNESSES
                            • Tourism attraction           • Dependence on
     -PRESIDENT-
                              and infrastructure             gold price
SAMIA SULUHU HASSAN

                                                                                                   8.3%

                                                                                                          26.8%

                                                                                                                     28.6%

                                                                                                                             36.3%
                            • Rich in mineral and          • Weak infrastructure
                              gas resources                  (power and
                            • Member of EAC                  transportation)
                            • Concessional loans           • Poor business

                              and relief funds from          environment
-OFFICIAL LANGUAGE-
 KISWAHILI & ENGLISH          IMF, WB and AfDB

                           OPPORTUNITIES                   THREATS
                           • Aims to become a               • Vulnerable to climate
                             regional trade hub               conditions (65% of
                           • Offshore gas potential           population working in
     -CURRENCY-
                                                              agriculture)
 TANZANIAN SHILLING        • Infrastructure projects
                                                            • Religious tensions and
                                                                                                      SERVICES
                                                              insecurity
                                                                                                      SECONDARY SECTOR
                                                                                                      PRIMARY SECTOR
                                                                                                      OTHER
                                                                                                    Source: wdi.worldbank.org
       -AREA-
    945 087 SQM             EXCHANGES BELGIUM – TANZANIA 2021

                                EXPORT                     PARTS                   IMPORT                    PARTS

-ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES-       Vegetable products              13.1%                  Foodstuffs                 53.2%

      TOURISM                 Machinery and
                                                           10.6%             Vegetable products               22.4%
                               equipment
       MINING
   CONSTRUCTION                 Chemicals                   7.6%                  Live animals                    16.8%

    AGRICULTURE
                              = 115th client – EUR 86.2 million: +14.1%
  MANUFACTURING               = 92nd supplier – EUR 85.5 million: -35.1%
                              Trade balance: EUR 0.7 million
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Focus
THE UNITED
REPUBLIC OF
TANZANIA
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                  TANZANIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND
                  AGRICULTURE (TCCIA): INVEST AND DO BUSINESS IN TANZANIA

Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry          works closely with different international       tion beyond Tanzania boundaries; TCCIA is
and Agriculture (TCCIA) is a private sec-       organizations for several of its activities to   an important body to facilitate International
tor association established in 1988 with the    strengthen private sector in the country while   Trade in Tanzania. Among the chamber ser-
support of the Tanzanian Government to          working very closely with the Government of      vices involve business networking, business
strengthen the private sector. The establish-   Tanzania for the same objective.                 linkages, business recommendations both
ment of the TCCIA was a very important step                                                      local and foreign, business conflict resolutions,
as the Government was moving from centra-     Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry             trade inquiry, business promotions through
lized, planned economy towards a more         and Agriculture (TCCIA) is a member                the chamber’s trade fairs systems and most
open, mixed economy giving full scope to      based Private Sector Organization which            of business facilitation services as far as Trade
private owned enterprises and farms.          works closely with the government of the           and Business Investment are concerned.
                                                                     United Republic of
TCCIA operates in                                                    Tanzania to deliver         TRADE AND INVESTIMENT IN TANZANIA
both Regions and                                                     different services to
districts. TCCIA          Tanzania Chamber of Commerce,              its esteemed cor-           Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry
has 26 Regional           Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA)           porate and ordinary         and Agriculture (TCCIA) works closely with
Chambers          in      is a member based Private Sector           members across the          other Trade and Investment bodies like the
Tanzania Mainland         Organization which works closely           country.                    Tanzania Trade Development Authority
and over 120              with the government of the United                                      (TANTRADE) and Tanzania Investment
District Chambers         Republic of Tanzania to deliver            TCCIA as a PSO in           Center (TIC) to facilitate International Trade
in    the     coun-       different services to its esteemed         Tanzania has the            and Investment across the country.
try, which are            corporate and ordinary members             mandate to issue the
semi-autonomous           across the country.                        certificates of origins     TCCIA champions for its esteemed members
in their operational                                                     (COO) in Tanzania       across the country as well as international
activities. TCCIA                                                        for export facilita-    partners outside Tanzania, to which have

                                                                                             Her Excellency Samia Suluhu Hassan
                                                                                         President of the United Republic of Tanzania
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                                                                                                       technology agreement for all investments
                                                                                                       which are over and above US$ 300,000
                                                                                                       and US$100,000 for foreign and local
                                                                                                       investments, respectively;

                                                                                                    VII. Providing and disseminating up to date
                                                                                                          information on existing investment oppor-
                                                                                                          tunities, benefits and incentives available
                                                                                                          to investors: and

                                                                                                    VIII. Facilitating investors to have smooth work-
                                                                                                          ing relationships with Public and Private
                                                                                                          Sector bodies such as Tanzania Chambers
                                                                                                          of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture
                                                                                                          (TCCIA), Confederation of Tanzania
                                                                                                          Industries (CTI), Tanzania National Business
                                                                                                          Council (TNBC), Tanzania Private Sector
                                                                                                          Foundation (TPSF)

   Mr. Paul Faraj Koyi-President of Tanzania Chamber of Commerce                                    THE INCENTIVES AVAILABLE TO THE
                                                                                                    HOLDERS OF TIC CERTIFICATES OF
                                                                                                    INCENTIVES ARE:
mutual agreements (MOUs) on business pro-        I. Promoting investment activities in Tanzania;
motion and trade facilitation for the interest                                                      The recognition of private property and
of both countries.                               II. Addressing administrative constraints fac-    protection against any non-commercial
                                                      ing local and foreign investors;              risks, Tanzania is an active member of
Tanzania Investment Center (TIC) works                                                              MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantees
to facilitate trade and investment in the        III. Assisting in the establishment and regis-    Agency). Likewise Tanzania is also a member
country, Tanzania is endowed with many                tration of enterprise processes;              of The International Centre for Settlement
natural resources and investment op-                                                                of Investment Disputes (ICSID) so investors
portunities. The Government of the United        IV. 
                                                     Facilitating investors in obtaining nec-       have unrestricted rights to International arbi-
Republic of Tanzania has simplified most of          essary licenses, work permits, visas,          tration in case of dispute with government.
its investment regulations to attract inves-         approvals, facilities or services;
tors from all around the world. Investment                                                          I. Reduced import tariff on project capital
in Tanzania is overseen by the Tanzania          V. Assisting investors to secure investment           items (5% import duty for investments in
Investments Centre (TIC), a one-stop pri-            sites and the establishment of Export              priority sectors and ZERO% for investment
mary Government agency responsible for               Processing Zone (EPZ) projects especially          in Lead Sectors).
all investment matters.                              in the Agricultural, Mining, Infrastructure,
                                                     Fisheries and Tourism sectors;                 II. 
                                                                                                        Favorable investment allowances and
The Tanzania Investment Center has the                                                                  deductions i.e. capital allowance (100%) on
following functions:                             VI. 
                                                     Granting Certificates of Incentives,               industrial buildings, plant and machinery
                                                     investment guarantees and registering              and on agricultural expenditure.

                                                                                   Dar es salaam Port, Center for Trade and Investment
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                       H.E. Hussein Mwinyi-President of Zanzibar addressing the media regarding the blue economy
                                during the celebration of 58th of Anniversary of Revolutionary of Zanzibar

     The World Bank defines a blue                   IX. A reasonable corporate tax rates 30%           INCENTIVES FOR AGRICULTURE SECTOR
     economy as the “sustainable use                      and low withholding tax on loan interest
     of ocean resources for economic                      payments.                                      I. Zero-rated duty on capital goods, all farm
     growth, improved livelihoods,                                                                          implements, fertilizers, pesticides etc.
     and jobs while preserving the                   X. The unrestricted right to transfer outside
     health of the ocean ecosystem”.                     the country 100% of foreign exchange            II. Zero-rated VAT on capital goods, all farm
                                                         earned profits and capital.                         implements, fertilizers, pesticides etc.

                                                     XI. 
                                                         The ease of obtaining other permits             III. 
                                                                                                              Other incentives as under item in
III. Deferment of VAT payment on project                such as Residence/Work Permits, indus-               "ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE"
      capital goods as defined in the tariff book        trial licence, trading license etc. through
      and its relevant annexes deferred VAT to           one-stop-shop operation of TIC.                 Incentives offered under petroleum explo-
      be shown on monthly return after which it                                                          ration and development basic documents
      will be extinguished unless it is discovered   XII. Automatic permits for employing an initial    required by the Tanzania Investment Centre
      otherwise after audit.                               quota of 5 foreign nationals on the project   (TIC) in order to register your investment
                                                           holding Certificates of Incentives.
IV. Imports Duty drawback on raw materials.                                                             FACILITATION SERVICES AND FEES
                                                     Mining and backup services to the mining
V. Zero-rated VAT on mining inputs, agri-           industry incentive for projects in economic         TIC renders services to facilitate all Investors
    culture inputs, goods manufactured for           infrastructure                                      whether covered by the TIC Act (1997) or not.
    exports, foodstuff and tourism.
                                                     The incentives are the same as in mining            Facilities Fees:
VI. 
    Straight line accelerated depreciation           sector                                              Certificate of incentives US $750
    allowance on capital goods.                                                                          Application Forms US $120
                                                     INCENTIVES FOR TOURISM SECTOR
VII. Up to five years carryover of all business                                                         Other Services: 10% on top of what is charged
      losses against future profits.                 In addition to the incentives provided to           by relevant Departments
                                                     holders of Certificates of Incentives item in
VIII. Up to five years carryover of all business    "ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE" all essential             ZANZIBAR BLUE ECONOMY
       losses against future profits.                hotels facilities are treated as capital goods
                                                     as spelt out in the Capital Goods schedule          Zanzibar has set aside Sh149 billion to stimu-
                                                     annexure.                                           late growth in areas directly linked to its blue
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economy initiative as the semi-autonomous       In his recorded national address to mark the
Indian Ocean archipelago marks the              58 years of political independence from the
58th anniversary of the January 12, 1964        Sultanate, Dr Mwinyi said his government had
revolution.                                     developed all legal frameworks and key pol-
                                                icies for the implementation of the strategic
That revolution resulted in the overthrow of    economic plan.
the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab
government by local African revolutionaries.    The Sh149 billion fund would be used to
                                                empower stakeholders like fishermen,
President Hussein Ali Mwinyi, who took          aquaria developers and growers of sea crops,
the reins of power after the October 2020       he said.
General Election, touted the blue economy as
the best way to develop Zanzibar’s economy.

The World Bank defines a blue economy as
the “sustainable use of ocean resources for
economic growth, improved livelihoods, and
jobs while preserving the health of the ocean
ecosystem”.
                                                                                                       Beautiful Giraffe found in Serengeti
                                                     Tanzania-Serengeti National Park                        National Park-Tanzania

   SECTOR OR SUBSECTOR                                 KEY FACTS                                          OPPORTUNITIES
                                      •   Contribute to exports for 21.7
                                          Gold exports: 94% of all mineral exports;

                                      •   Sector growth rate: 6.9%;
                                                                                          •   Establish smelting plants and gold refinery
     MINING AND METALS
                                      •   Sector share to GDP: 4.7%;                          plants.

                                      •   Exports in raw form.

                                      •   Gas discoveries in Tanzania are catapul-
                                          ting the region into a major player in the
                                          global energy;                                  •   Upstream projects include exploration of oil and
                                                                                              gas onshore and offshore areas;
                                      •   Expected to bring billions in investment
                                          that could transform the entire economy;        •   Downstream oil & gas investment projects such
                                                                                              as transportation & storage facilities;
            OIL & GAS                 •   East Africa’s coastal region, stretching
                                          out to Seychelles holds a resource of           •   Transportation and distribution of natural gas
                                          441.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, (US       for compressed natural gas, industries and
                                          Geological Survey). Discovered reserves             households.
                                          in Tanzania alone is over 57.54 trillion cu-
                                          bic feet.
10 / TANZANIA

   SECTOR OR SUBSECTOR                   KEY FACTS                                        OPPORTUNITIES
                         •   Average length of stay: 10-11 days;
                         •   Average Expenditure per tourist: US$355
                             (package tours) and US$247 (non-pac-
                             kage tours);

                         •   22 National Parks;

                         •   1 Conservation Area;

                         •   32 Game Reserves;
                                                                          •   Tourist Hotels, lodges, tented camps,
                         •   44 Game Controlled Areas;
                                                                          •   Beach tourism, cultural and historical sites
                         •   4 Ramsar/Wetland Sites;
                                                                          •   Golf courses and eco-tourism facilities
                         •   33 Wildlife Management Areas;
   TOURISM AND LEISURE                                                    •   Leisure parks
        INDUSTRY         •   6 Nature Reserves;
                                                                          •   Conference tourism facilities
                         •   Tourism icons:
                                                                      •       Air/ground transport
                             −    Kilimanjaro Mountain – 5,895 Meters
                                  High - is the highest free standing •       Tour operations and trophy hunting.
                                  mountain in the World and highest
                                  in Africa;

                             −    Ngorongoro Crater is among the
                                  World Heritage Sites;

                             −    Serengeti National Park with
                                  Animal Migration – the leading
                                  National Park in Africa in 2019, 2020
                                  and 2021.

                         •   Tanzania has plenty arable for agri-
                             culture. A variety of crops, fruits and
                             vegetables produced are potential
                             for Agro – Processing including tea,
                             cashew nut, floriculture, pulses, cassava,   •   Rehabilitation and expansion of existing proces-
                             mangoes, maize, rice, beans, etc.                sing Industries.

                         •   Cashew has multiple products including:      •   Joint Venture with existing Processors.
  AGRICULTURE AND AGRO
      - PROCESSING           −    Cashew nuts, cashew nuts milk and       •   Construction and operation of
                                  butter;                                     new processing industries.
                             −    Cashew Shells, anorexic acids,
                                  cashew apple-eat fresh, alcohol-fine    •   Construction of industrial parks
                                  wines, jams, flavor drinks (Alcoholic
                                  and non-alcoholic) animal feeds -
                                  discarded nuts, residuals of cashew
                                  Kernels, charcoal
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    THE EDTECH: THE NEW 'IT' SECTOR
E   D      T      E     C      H

STRENGTHS                                                        WEAKNESSES
                                                                 • Learning losses as measured by average PISA scores (OECD’s
• Africa: economic potential: the Continent’s total economy       Programme for International Student Assessment), are
   will continue to grow at a fast rate over the next 5 years      estimated to be significantly greater for poorer students than
• Africa: global GDP is forecasted to grow at 4% post-COVID       for richer ones. This impact would widen the socio-economic
• Africa: around 226 million young people aged 15-24 live in      achievement gap
   Africa, representing almost 20% of the African population     •
                                                                  Marginalised groups were shown commonly subject to
   and one fifth of the world‘s youth                             reduced access to online learning
• Africa: an urbanization upward trend accompanied by
   an expanding middle class (today at 30%) means higher         • Barriers to wider access to ICT networks include
   possibilities to afford technology                            - High capital and recurrent costs associated with developing
• West Africa (with Nigeria as the largest economy of the         and maintaining large university networks
   region with 11% GDP CAGR) and Est Africa are the two
   most attractive regions from an investment perspective        -
                                                                  Lack of institutional            arrangements         to    support
• Caribbean: home to 11 million young people between the         shared access
   ages of 15 to 29                                              • Caribbean: in 2021: less than 43 percent of primary schools
• Caribbean: many countries have made necessary efforts            and 62 percent of secondary schools had access to Internet
   towards providing students with access to computers and          for pedagogical purposes
   the internet
• Caribbean: more than 20 edtechs startups in the sectors       • Caribbean: recent simulations suggest that learning poverty
   of primary (
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Focus
EDTECH
14 / EDTECH

                  THE EDTECH: THE NEW 'IT' SECTOR

It is clear that the health crisis we are experiencing with COVID19 has changed the way we work and learn. The digitalisation of the
work and education realms has been seen as a quick, cheap and effective response to the crisis. The need for relevant and fast adap-
tation surely presented a fertile ground for tech sectors to flourish. This article will briefly jump into the fascinating world of Education
Technologies and give an overview of the actual tendencies and opportunities of the sector within the ACP countries.

EDTECH - A SECTOR SPOILED BY THE                    However, the EdTech Giants are facing a            Africa, meanwhile, is not left behind.
CRISIS                                              considerable slowdown since 2021. Indeed,          According to Partech Partners, a venture
                                                    according to the HolonIQ report published in       capital fund specialising in ICT, the number
Changes related to the so-called Fourth             February 2022, the US side has seen painful        of African startups with financial backing will
Industrial Revolution had already been taking       losses for big players such as Chegg or 2U         grow six times faster than the global average
place at the socio-economic level, impacting        after a euphoria in terms of investments made      between 2015 and 2020.
the labour market, creating new functions,          (In October 2021, US EdTech companies alone
new ways of working and, above all, requir-         represented 50% of the global funds raised in      In Tanzania, Ubongo was the proud winner
ing a whole range of new skills. The Covid          the month)                                         of the 2019 Next Billion Edtech Prize. The
crisis has only accelerated our adaptation to                                                          company, founded in 2013, creates fun and
new management systems based on digital             China, on the other hand, was facing an            localised educational multi-platforms for
technology.                                         ultra-restrictive policy towards private educa-    Tanzanian families via TV and the web.
                                                    tional institutions, which had a strong impact
One of the new models being rethought is            on the activity of Chinese start-ups.              In Kenya, there is an extraordinary mobile
that of education, with new ways of training,                                                          penetration rate of 109% with individuals
teaching and assessing. Education has had to        However, VC investment in EdTech startups          sometimes using two SIM cards. However,
move partially or totally online during the two     continues to grow exponentially, particularly      there is a low internet penetration rate of 40%
years of the epidemic, and it is certain that the   in Europe and the US. The figures collected        with only 21.75 million users, a market that is
hybrid approach that has resulted from our          so far show a persistent euphoria towards the      still untapped for the “Silicon Savannah”.
adaptation to the health situation will persist,    sector (see Key Facts)
as it has become permanently embedded in
old working and training models.                    In Europe, according to a survey conducted         A SECTOR TO MAKE ALL KINDS OF
                                                    by the European Commission in 2020, 95%            GEEKS HAPPY
For example, some well-known universi-              of the population surveyed considered the
ties have been quick to offer training and          pandemic to be a turning point in the use of       EdTech is an umbrella term for a wide vari-
certification courses that take place 100%          technology in education and training. More         ety of different and even complementary
online. Platforms such as ZOOM, MOOCS,              than 60% felt that they had increased their        technologies acting at the educational
Teams have quickly become indispensable             digital skills during the crisis and more than     level. Among the most present sub-sectors
in everyday life. We are also witnessing a          50% wanted to improve them. In comparison,         are: Tech-Enabled Immersive Learning (e.g.
proliferation of e-learning platforms such          in 2013 schools in the European Union did not      Extended reality (XR)), E-learning, innova-
as Outschool, Coursera, Udemy or Kahoot!            meet expectations. 63% of students did not         tive homeschooling, Mobile-first learning,
seizing the opportunity of e-learning as            have access to “a school with a good digital       AI-enabled adaptive learning, gamification, ...
a new educational standard in times of              facility” even though 70% of teachers recog-
confinement.                                        nised the importance of using digital tools        Since we are now moving beyond direct
                                                    in the classroom. It is in this context that the   interaction, EdTech technologies seek to
Initially, the growth of the Edtech market has      European Commission decided to launch its          involve participants in a different way. It is
been made possible through the proliferation        Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027),         believed that these new technologies would
of smart devices and the global deployment          a (renewed) initiative to support the sustain-     make it possible to overcome the short-
of internet connectivity.                           able and effective adaptation of EU Member         comings of traditional educational systems,
                                                    States' education and training systems to the      which are considered outdated and unequal
From an economic point of view, while the           digital age.                                       in some respects. Edtech would instead allow
EdTech sector is indeed booming, there are                                                             for individualisation and adaptation to each
some ambivalences. The year 2021 indeed             In the same context, there is also the launch of   individual's learning. According to UNESCO,
saw a record in terms of companies listed on        the European EdTech Alliance, a “consortium        “e-learning makes it possible to remove cer-
the stock exchange in the global education          of national trade associations and clusters        tain obstacles to training” such as the lack of
sector (306 registered by 2022). The month          working with founders and providers of edu-        physical training structures (schools, learn-
of October 2021 recorded 1.76 billion funds,        cation technology (Edtech), to support the         ing centres, etc.), teacher training, learning
the year to date raises exceeding the whole         domestic and international growth of Edtech        tools (textbooks, exercise books, etc.), lack
year 2020.                                          and Innovation in education” (EdTechEurope).       of inclusion of individuals with specific needs
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                                         Digital technologies are used in many different ways.
       Enabel recognises the role of digital technologies as leverage to support sustainable development              Enabel / FK Picture

(disabilities, mental health, marginalised       different audiences: In Morocco, the e-TAM-
groups, etc.), distance between home and         KEEN project is designed to strengthen the
the place of learning, the cost of traditional   (digital) skills of civil servants at central and
education, and so on.                            local level to enable the digital transition of           We have a selection process
                                                 public administration services. In Tanzania,              with criteria and a guideline.
The EdTech industry offers various benefits      the project Let’s go digital! aims at providing           We don‘t fund the digitalisa-
like increased collaboration amongst stu-        vocational training through the app VSOMO                 tion of a company or the digital
dents, 24/7 access to learning, personalized     developed by VETA (Vocational Education                   transformation of a ministry or
educational experiences, automated grading       and Training Authority). a project that aims              NGO. No, we look at how digi-
systems, classroom management tools and          to make access to training easier for young               tal technology can strengthen
creating paperless classrooms.                   people and women. The project is imple-                   their role as a public player or
                                                 mented by NGO Helvetas and financed by                    as a civil society player.
Traditional education systems certainly have     Wehubit through EU funding. In Guinea, the
their share of limits and inefficiency and the   Kouyé application is a digital response to the             Capucine Gonnord, D4D Expert
Edtech seems full of promises. But how is the    fight against gender-based violence (GBV)
Edtech taking its place within the traditional   and in support of the promotion of sexual
systems? What new hybrid education sys-          and reproductive health (SRH)
tems are possible?
                                                                                                     through the Wehubit programme, a pro-
The Belgian development agency, Enabel,          DIGITAL FOR DEVELOMENT (D4D)                        gram that follows the strategic note on digital
recognises the role of digital technologies                                                          for development established in 2016 which
as leverage to support the sustainable deve-     The D4D, or Digital for Development Team of         revolves around the 9 digital development
lopment goals throughout its programmes          Enabel , offers strategic guidance and techni-      principles (see box) In this framework, pro-
and portfolio. In its line of operations and     cal support to its partners in their search for     jects resulting from the Wehubit program,
core principle of inclusion, Enabel continu-     an inclusive digital transformation and tran-       must follow those same principles as well.
ously supports the development of EdTech         sition being essentially in the area of digital
as defined as the use of educational tech-       skills, digital rights, digital entrepreneurship,
nologies to improve the access, quality and      digital governance, digital service delivery.       WEHUBIT
continuity of teaching and learning              Enabel’s partners in digitalization come from
                                                 the private sector, the public sector and civil     Enabel's Wehubit programme is a Belgian
In this context, Enabel shares with us three     society. One of the ways in which Enabel            and European Union funded programme
Edtech projects whose training is intended for   is involved in supporting D4D initiatives, is       with a very specific focus on the scaling-up of
16 / EDTECH

non-profit and public initiatives using digital    or future crises! Our approach is also based       vate sector, particularly in terms of the sus-
technologies to address societal challenges.       on human rights: how does the proposal             tainability of a project or a business model.
                                                   received identify the actors who have a role       An NGO, after three years, will not necessarily
Arnaud Leclerq, programme manager in               to play in education, and how do these actors      try to maintain its project, they will look for
Wehubit explains:                                  see their role strengthened thanks to the pro-     another to set up. That's why by combining
                                                   posed solution” Arnaud Leclercq.                   the two logics we can achieve a very good
“Through our competitive fund, we are able                                                            balance.”
to look for other players and try to unders-
tand how they use digital technology in the                                                           For Arnaud, the risk is there, but if you make
countries and sectors in in which we are ded-           Wehubit aims to boost digital                 sure there are safeguards in place, sustain-
icated. The idea of these calls for proposals is        social innovation as a vehicle                able Edtech models can very well be envi-
to recognise that others have other interes-            for accelerating inclusive and                saged without fear:
ting approaches and that we can draw inspi-             sustainable development, and
ration from them. Then, for the established             empowering people in Enabel‘s                 “That's why we insist, among others, on
projects that we consider to be relevant and            partner countries.                            the principles for digital development, such
to have an impact, the aim is to strengthen                                                           as interoperability, open source and open
them through funding and becoming mem-                                                                knowledge. If the solution comes from the
ber of our network. By scaling-up, we mean                                                            private sector but is interoperable and cer-
innovations that we think have already gone        RISKS RELATED TO THE USE OF                        tain principles are respected, then the risk is
through a certain number of stages, that we        EDTECH?                                            reduced, in terms of costs as well as techno-
think are fairly robust, and we want to sup-                                                          logy and adaptation.”
port them in their scaling up, which is often      On the question of the risks linked to the total
challenging for the public sector or civil soci-   or partial insertion of digital technology in      These new models of education can be found
ety because of absence of revenue-generat-         education, Capucine is positive:                   below with three different projects aimed at
ing model or profitability behind it.”                                                                very different audiences:
                                                   “I would say that the private sector will have
The call for proposals within the EdTech sec-      expertise, a technology that can also con-
tor launched by Wehubit was to address the         tribute to other actors and so the idea is to      3 PROJECTS - 3 AUDIENCES:
effect of the Covid19 crisis on the education      make it very clear from the outset how we
sector. Wehubit's overall approach wishes to       collaborate and how we innovate because            Morocco - 2020:
be prospective and sustainable over time,          co-creation is also very important and that
with projects that will be there to mitigate       each one does not encroach on the other.           eTAMKEEN: this programme seeks to provide
future crises:                                     Today, in terms of partnership sustainability,     Moroccan public administration services with
                                                   the private sector has to be integrated into it.   a response adapted to the requirements of
“The main challenge was to continue access         A partnership with NGOs is very different,         the reform and the changes it is facing. The
to education and quality despite a lockdown        they have a different mentality than the pri-      aim is to strengthen the digital skills of civil

        Tesi’s school (Cyinzovu Secondary School) in Kayonza district, eastern Rwanda.
    Use of education technology to improve quality and continuity of teaching and learning
                                 Deborah Tesi / VVOB – Wehubit
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                                                       In Morocco, Enabel organises trainings to strengthen the digital skills of civil servants
                                                                                               Enabel

servants at central and local levels for a more   c   This pilot programme aims to establish            by the program, in order to produce
effective and efficient management of public          a model to be duplicated for the part-            shareable knowledge that administra-
services:                                             ner administrations, which will then be           tions can use, adapt to their needs and
                                                      included in the eTAMKEEN capitalisation           make their own.
c   The eTAMKEEN programme, in agree-                 product.
    ment with the 15 beneficiary ministries                                                         c   Halfway through its implementation,
    and departments, is deploying a set of        c   The aim is to identify, analyse and collect       the eTAMKEEN programme is crea-
    training courses related to digitalization.       the changes and experiences generated             ting several platforms and tools related
                                                                                                        to the digital transformation of the
                                                                                                        Administration: the development of an
                                                                                                        eLearning platform dedicated to the
                                                                                                        Moroccan Administration based on an
                                                                                                        OpenSource component which is Moodle
                                                                                                        is an example of current creation.

                                                                                                    Guinea - 2021:

                                                                                                    Kouyé aims at offering a digital solution to
                                                                                                    facilitate the access to information, notably
                                                                                                    information on the rights to bodily autonomy
                                                                                                    and on sexual and reproductive rights.

                                                                                                    c   The online application and website are an
                                                                                                        initiative resulting from the partnership
                                                                                                        between the Ministry of Health, Enabel,
                                                                                                        GIZ and You Foundation:

                                                                                                    c   Guinea’s highly patriarchal society where
                                                                                                        violence might be deployed in various
                                                                                                        forms, the taboos, myths and societal
                                                                                                        rules related to sexuality in this country
                                                                                                        are an obstacle to sexual education and
                                                                                                        intergenerational communication. These
                                                                                                        practices encourage the circulation of
                                                                                                        false information, reduce access to Sexual
                                                                                                        and Reproductive Health services and
                                                                                                        lead to risky behaviour (such as early
                                                                                                        sexuality, unprotected sex, early and/or
                  Girls in Guinée are using the mobile application Kouyé                                unwanted pregnancies, contamination
           in search for information on sexuality and family planning. Enabel                           with Sexually Transmitted Infections
18 / EDTECH
     CBL-ACP: FINANCIAL DIVISION

                 THE EDTECH: THE NEW 'IT' SECTOR

                                                Using ChatBot in Helvetas‘ YES project in Tanzania
                                       Provision of Vocational Education Training through a Mobile Platform
                                                              Stella Oguma / Wehubit

    (STIs), illegal abortions and its risks and       the theoretical part is completed, the            tiveness of the course itself (too static,
    consequences, and school dropouts).               users can go in one of VETA's national            lot of text, which makes them not easily
                                                      training institutes to further complete           understandable for low educated youth)
c   The application is intended to be as dem-         their training through practical exercise.
    ocratic and accessible as possible and                                                          Sources :
    tries to remove existing barriers to this     c   Overcome the difficulties of distance and
    topic (cultural and religious barriers)           the high costs of education                   App Inventiv
                                                                                                    Commission Européenne
In Tanzania - 2022:                               c   The advantage is that it can train a large    CPR Asset Management
                                                      number of young people, especially in         Edtech Capital
Lets go digital! an initiative based on the           remote areas.                                 EdSurge
observation that many disadvantaged young                                                           Edtech World Forum
people, especially women and rural youth          c   Develop gamification elements for at          Enabel
with low levels of education do not have              least three courses, including one on         Grand View Research
access to vocational education and training.          entrepreneurship                              HolonIQ
The VSOMO application, developed in col-                                                            International Monetary Fund
laboration with the mobile phone operator         c   Unfortunately, the application has been       La Revue Edtech
Airtel, seeks to:                                     little used so far, with several factors      OECD
                                                      preventing its potential from being fully     Wehubit
c   Enable the acquisition of theoretical             exploited: the costs (which can be still      World Economic Forum
    knowledge remotely as a first step after          high for some users), the lack of attrac-     World Bank

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                 CLIMATE FINANCE

The fight against climate change needs more     form production and consumption patterns             as China and India, among others, has caused
than just good intentions. Adaptation and       all over the planet. It is particularly costly for   their greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) to
mitigation processes, crucial to stopping the   developing countries, which are often the            skyrocket.
planet from deteriorating over the coming       most vulnerable to this phenomenon. This is
decades, requires financing, and this flow      where climate financing comes in, as it allows       WHAT IS CLIMATE FINANCE?
of money can come from both private and         mitigation and adaptation.
public sources. The United Nations, though                                                           According to the United Nations Framework
the UNFCCC, is responsible for supervising      Another feature of climate change is that            Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
transfers from developed to developing          some of the countries most seriously threat-         climate finance is local, national or
countries…                                      ened by its effects tend to be those that            transnational funding from public, private
                                                cause the least pollution. One example of this       and alternative sources that seeks to sup-
Climate change is a global problem that         is Kiribati. At the same time, relocating manu-      port climate change mitigation and adap-
requires huge amounts of money to trans-        facturing to countries with cheap labour, such       tation actions.

                                            WHAT ACTIVITIES DOES CLIMATE FINANCE FUND?
Another definition is that of the UNFCCC's          c   	Guarantees. These are commitments           Least      Developed      Countries      Fund
Standing Committee on Finance (SCF),                       whereby a guarantor promises to fulfil      (LDCF): Also administered by the
according to which climate finance aims at                 the obligations undertaken by a bor-        Global      Environment      Facility   (GEF),
reducing emissions, and enhancing green-                   rower to a lender in the context of cli-    its purpose is to support the almost
house gas sinks and aims at reducing vul-                  mate change activities.                     50 countries classified as least developed by
nerability and maintaining and increasing                                                              the United Nations to tackle their high vulner-
the resilience of human and ecological sys-         c	
                                                      Concessional loans. These are loans             ability to climate change and implement their
tems to negative climate change impacts.               for climate change mitigation and               national adaptation plans.
                                                       adaptation activities that differ from
A basic milestone for climate finance was the          traditional loans in that they have             UN-REDD Programme: Created in 2008,
Copenhagen Agreement, reached in 2009 at               longer repayment periods and lower              also as part of the UN, its objective is to
COP15. In the agreement, developed coun-               interest rates, among other preferential        reduce the emissions caused by deforest-
tries pledged 30 billion dollars between 2010          conditions.                                     ation and forest degradation in developing
and 2012 for developing countries to carry                                                             countries, helping governments to prepare
out mitigation and adaptation activities,           c   	Grants and donations. These are             and implement national REDD+ strategies.
and 10 billion dollars per year until 2020.                amounts granted to projects related
This commitment was reiterated in the Paris                to the fight against the climate emer-      Bilateral climate finance funds include
Agreement in 2015, extending this aid until                gency, which do not need to be repaid.      institutions as the United States Agency
2025. The election of Joe Biden as president                                                           for International Development (USAID),
of the United States, which has an ambitious        MAIN FUNDS OF CLIMATE FINANCE                      the European Union's Global Climate
climate plan, is a boost for the future of cli-                                                        Change Alliance+ (GCCA+), and the Japan
mate finance.                                       Climate finance funds are provided by mul-         International Cooperation Agency (JICA), etc.
                                                    tilateral institutions including development
CLIMATE FINANCE              SOURCES       AND      banks and the financial institutions estab-        It is clear that climate finance plays a critical
INSTRUMENTS                                         lished under the UNFCCC itself. The following      role in addressing climate change.
                                                    are the main examples:
Climate finance can come from very differ-                                                                             Source: UN and IBERDROLA.
ent sources, which can include: public or           Green Climate Fund (GCF): Set up by the
private, national or international, bilateral or    UNFCCC in 2010, it is the world's largest fund
multilateral. There are also numerous types         devoted to helping developing countries
of instruments, some of the most common             reduce their GHG emissions and adapt to the
of which are:                                       impact of climate change, paying particular
                                                    attention to the needs of the most vulner-
c   	Green bonds. These are a kind of debt        able countries. The GCF plays an essential
       issued by a public or private institution.   role in compliance with the Paris Agreement,
       Unlike other types of credit instrument,     channelling climate finance to developing
       they undertake to use the funds for          countries.
       environmental purposes, such as fight-
       ing climate change, for example.             Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF):
                                                    Administered by the Global Environment
c   	Debt swaps. These entail the sale of         Facility (GEF), it offers four different finance
       foreign currency debt by the creditor        services: adaptation to climate change; tech-
       country to an investor — e.g. an NGO —       nology transfer; energy, transport, industry,
       which can then swap the debt with the        agriculture, forestry and waste management;
       debtor country for the development of        and economic diversification for countries                     MANON KIZIZIÉ
       mitigation and adaptation projects.          dependent on fossil fuels.                                 Head of Financial Division
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                 EVENTS DE LA CBL-ACP

 ALGÉRIE - 14.01.2022 CBL-ACP                                              CÔTE D'IVOIRE - 16.02.2022 Cercle Gaulois

 Visite de courtoisie de S.E. M. Hameche, nouvel ambassadeur d’Al-         Déjeuner en l’honneur de S.E. M. Ouattara, Président de la
 gérie en poste en Belgique et Mme Hosna, responsable du Service           République de Côte d’Ivoire accompagné d’une déléga-
 Economique et Commercial. La CBL-ACP était représentée par                tion de haut niveau composée entre autres de Mme Camara,
 M. Guy Bultynck, Président et M. Peter van Blanckenberg, Head of          Ministre des Affaires Etrangères et de l’Intégration Africaine,
 Bilateral Section pour l’Algérie.                                         M. Souleymane Diarrassouda-, Ministre du Commerce et de l’Indus-
                                                                           trie, M. Kobanan Adjoumani, Ministre de l’Agriculture, le Président
                                                                           de la Confédération Générale des Entreprises de Côte d’Ivoire, le
                                                                           directeur du Conseil du Café et du Cacao, l’ambassadeur Abou
 TANZANIE - 17.02.2022 Hotel Le Plaza                                      Dosso. La CBL-ACP était représentée par M. Bultynck, Président et
                                                                           M. Maximilien Lemaire, Représentant Permanent en CI et M. Chalon,
 Petit déjeuner conférence et B2B en présence de S.E. Mme Samia            Head of Bilateral Section. Plus de 70 entreprises membres et non
 Suluhu Hassan, Présidente de la République Unie de Tanzanie               membres ont participé à cet événément.
 accompagnée d’une importante délégation composée notamment
 de M. Mulamula, Minister of Foreign Affairs – Dr. Nchemba, Minister
 for Finance and Plan – Hon. Mwalimu, Minister of Health et autres
 officiels. Représentants du secteur privé : M. Paul Koyi, Président
 de la Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture –
 Ms Angelina Ngalula, Chairperson of the Tanzania Private Sector
 Foundation – Dr. Maduha Isaac Kazi -, Director General of the
 Tanzania Investment Centre, l’ambassadeur Nyamanga. Lors de
 cette rencontre un MOU a été signé entre la TCCIA et la CBL-ACP
 qui était reptésentée par M. Amaury Luyckx, Vice-Président et
 M. Christian Verbrugghe, Head of Bilateral Section. Une 50-taine
 de sociétés membres et non membres de la CBL-ACP ont assité à
 cet événement et au B2B.

 25.01.2022 CBL-ACP

 Réunion de travail virtuelle avec Exchange Expertise et Exchange
 Expertise vzw (l’institution flamande). Présents pour la CBL-ACP :
 M. Evrard, CEO, M. Vermeesch, Responsable de la Cellule Relations
 externes, M. Frix, conseiller et Mme Kizizié, reponsable Financing
 Division – Pour Expertise ; le Président Philippe Claeys et le secré-
 taire M. Christiane ainsi que le Président de la vzw , M. Frank Foulon.
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