TICAD Exchange, a web-based portal developed and managed by UNDP with technical assistance of UNIDO, is envisaged as a first step towards building a network of Asian and African public and private sectors.
TICAD Exchange aims at improving the information base on trade and investment to guide the identification of new business opportunities, and at providing an on-line facility for information exchange among users.
TICAD exchange is based on three pillars.
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Marketplace: an information database of investment and trade offers from Asian and African countries.
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Investment Environment: a wide range of information such as macro and micro economic indicators, data on industrial production, trade and investment policies, and laws and regulations of African countries.
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Resource Centres: links to related fields such as Agro-Food Industry, offering technological and economic advice on agro-industrial strategy.
TICAD Exchange was first introduced by HE Prime Minister Koizumi during the Asia-Africa Business Summit that took place as a parallel event to the Bandung Conference in April 2005.
TICAD Exchange plays a supportive role as a source of information towards the implementation of Africa-Asia Business Forum (AABF).
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News / Events
| TICAD IV Webcast |
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 TICAD IV Sessions were broadcasted on the Web site of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Afrairs from 8:30 a.m. on 28 May till 11:00 a.m. on 30 May.
Schedule:
28 May
8.30-9.00 Opening Session
9.00-9.45 Plenary 1 - 15 Years of TICAD
9.45-12.15 Plenary 2-1 - Boosting Economic Growth
14.00-16.00 Plenary 2-2 - Ensuring Human Security
16.00-17.30 Plenary 2-3 - Addressing Environmental Issues / Climate Change
29 May
9.00-11.00 Breakout Session A - Boosting Economic Growth
13.30-16.00 Plenary 3-1 - Expanding Partnership
(1) Asia-Africa Cooperation
(2) Intra-Africa Cooperation
(3) Private-Public Partnership
16.00-18.00 Plenary 3-2 - Expanding Partnership
(4) African development Frontiers
(5) Partnership with Civil Society
30 May
9.00-10.00 Plenary 4 Report on Breakout Sessions
10.00-11.00 Closing Session
View Live Broadcast of TICAD IV (English)
View Live Broadcast of TICAD IV (Japanese)
* The links were activated on 26 May |
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| TICAD IV Film |
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 On 28 May the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development opened in Yokohama, Japan. The Conference's agenda fostered the continued development of Africa.
This promotional video of TICAD was created by UNDP under the title of "Towards a vibrant Africa: a continent of hope and opportunity", introducing five UNDP projects to improve the daily lives of people throughout the continent.
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| TICAD IV Side Event - Innovative Approaches to Private Sector Development for achieving the MDGs in Africa |
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UNDP in partnership with the NEPAD Business Group, UNCTAD and UNIDO
28 May 2008, Pacifico Yokohama Conference Centre, Yokohama, Japan |
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In 2008 the United Nations is seeking to stimulate renewed momentum around the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly in Africa. As part of the general campaign to revitalize efforts to meet the MDGs, there is a particularly acute need to scale up the role and involvement of the private sector in development. It is now widely accepted that the markets have a crucial role to play in meeting the challenge of the MDGs. The private sector is the engine of growth in most developing and developed countries and contributes to the achievement of MDG 1 indirectly – through aggregate income and wealth creation – and directly through employment creation and the provision of affordable goods and services for the poor. Private sector development is central not only to poverty reduction and employment generation, but also to achieving wider corporate UN objectives in the areas of energy and environmental service delivery, crisis prevention and recovery, and democratic governance.
This event aims at sharing the understanding of the positive contributions of the private sector in promoting poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa, as well as the role of the public sector in engaging the private sector in development. Selected new and innovative approaches by global partners will be showcased and demonstrate how market-based business activities and private sector investments could help achieve the MDGs. Presentations included actual case studies developed by the UN organizations and first-hand testimonials from various local private sector actors who have been beneficiaries or advocates of TICAD-inspired private sector development initiatives in Africa.
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| Fourth Africa-Asia Business Forum (AABF IV) Follow-up Workshop: Investment Project Formulation and Appraisal & SME Financing |
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Abuja, Nigeria, 25 April, 2008 |
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 Two innovative workshops on “Investment Project Formulation and Appraisal” and “SME Financing” were successfully concluded today after five days’ intensive inter-active learning.
Participants of the workshops were SME entrepreneurs in Nigeria and other West African countries, who are Alumni of the Africa-Asia Business Forum series, more specifically AABF IV, as well as representatives of banks, such as the Bank of Industry, Nigeria, ECOBANK Group, Access, Oceanic and Zenith Banks which have extended their services to the SMEs.
Read more on the workshop and facts & figures
Photo Album of the workshop
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Africa-Asia Business Forum IV Highlights:
How Business Can Foster Socio-Economic Growth and Development in Africa |
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Dar es Salaam, 14 February, 2007, TICAD Press Release |
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 The fourth Africa-Asia Business Forum (AABF IV) wrapped up here today on a positive note as it led to business prospects worth US$156 million.
“The great news out of AABF IV is that we have come up with 118 MOUs altogether – out of which 58 were signed between African and Asian businessmen and 59 were concluded between African businessmen,” said Bouna Sémou Diouf, Director of the TICAD/UNDP Africa Bureau and Senior Adviser to the Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa. “More importantly, AABF IV has led to business prospects worth US$156 million by the closing of the forum – more than the US$152.9 million in declared value of the three previous combined AABF fora.”
Link to the full article in the TICAD Web site
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AABF IV Summary
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| The Africa-Asia Business Forum (AABF IV) |
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 12-14 February 2007 |
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The Africa-Asia Business Forum (AABF IV) will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 12 to 14 February 2007 - back to back with the Technonet Africa’s SME Financing Symposium.
AABF aims at identifying business partners to enter into various types of deals. Its ultimate objective is to attract investment into Africa and to increase trade between Africa and Asia.
Interested companies are requested to apply through AABF IV National Focal Points in their respective countries. Please fill out the application form below and submit it with supporting documents to the National Focal Points in your country by 22 December 2006. For those incorporated outside Africa or Asia (such as Diasporas) can directly apply to aabf4@unido.org. |
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Since its inception in 1993, the TICAD Initiative has carried out a wide range of innovative programmes to promote African development. This 13 minute-long documentary features TICAD success stories in human-centered development and poverty reduction through economic growth with concrete examples in food security, ICT development, and the promotion of trade and investment between Africa and Asia.
