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May
29
2024
IN PERSON
2:00—7:30 AM ET, 9 AM—2:30 PM EAT
May 09, 2024
The Center for Global Development (CGD), together with the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Partnership for Economic Policy Network (PEP), the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS), and REPOA, are holding a workshop alongside the African Development Bank’s annual meetings in Nairo...
May
16
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
3:00—4:00 PM ET / 8:00-9:00 PM BST
May 08, 2024
On August 21, 2023, Yusuf Tuggar was sworn in as Foreign Minister of Nigeria. Minister Tuggar is a major figure in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet and is leading the implementation of the president’s new foreign policy initiative, the “4D Doctrine,” which focuses on Demography, Development, Diaspora...
Blog Post
March 21, 2024
CGD's Gyude Moore speaks with Nick O’Donohoe from British International Investment and Frank Aswani from the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance about balancing local and international focus, the impact of a "funding winter," and how the public and private sectors can fill the financing gap for bu...
Jun
6
2024
VIRTUAL
8:00—9:30 AM ET / 1:00-2:30 PM BST
March 07, 2024
This four-part seminar series has covered a range of pillars for a Common African Market, such as the role of the digital economy in the AfCFTA, trade facilitation and supply chains in Africa’s industrialization, innovation ecosystems, and intra-African migration. This third session will address how...
Dec
5
2023
VIRTUAL
8:30—10:00 AM ET / 1:30-3:00 PM GMT
November 21, 2023
This conversation will address important questions about the topic of a common African market: How is the digital and innovation-driven economy being prioritized by the AfCFTA? What should it look like in the Common African Market? What is the role of trade facilitation and supply chains in trade an...
Oct
26
2023
VIRTUAL
8:30—10:00 AM ET/ 1:30-3:00 PM BST
October 12, 2023
Is it time to start work on the Common African Market? If so, who are the key stakeholders for the Common African Market, and what are their roles? The emergence of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will be transformative. What does that mean for the African Growth and Opportunity Act...
CGD NOTES
August 23, 2023
Across several African countries, there has been a troubling trend of infrastructure being stripped to sell as scrap metal. People have been arrested for ripping out and selling rail sleepers in South Africa and Ghana, pylon and copper wires in Uganda, and streetlamp meters in Liberia. That strippin...
Dec
16
2022
9:00—9:45 AM ET
December 07, 2022
Please join the Center for Global Development for a conversation on mobilizing private sector investment in Africa to support development priorities. On the heels of the second US-Africa Leaders’ Summit and COP27, US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO Scott Nathan will highlight...
Blog Post
November 28, 2022
In August, Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled the administration’s new US Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa. His remarks underscored the pivotal role Africa will play in shaping the future of the world and acknowledged that tackling the shared priorities of the United States and African cou...