The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA), in joint collaboration with the SADC Business Council, is organizing a two -part Sensitization Forum for the private sector to facilitate dialogue on the twin issues of:
(i) Post COVID-19 strategies and policies for Southern Africa – and assessing the challenges and opportunities for the Southern African private sector within these Post COVID-19 strategies and policies; and
(ii) The role of the private sector in regional integration processes in Southern Africa – the challenges and opportunities faced by the private sector in such processes.
Specifically, the Forum will aim to:
- To stimulate reflections and discussions on the potential post-COVID-19 strategies and policies that can unleash opportunities for the private sector in Southern Africa as part of building back better.
- To stimulate public-private dialogue in the areas of industrialization and regional integration and the role of the private sector in these processes in Southern Africa, as a follow up to the ECA SRO-SA 26th ICSOE.
The virtual event will be organized in two distinct but inter-related sessions.
The first session is titled “Post-COVID recovery strategies in Southern Africa: Challenges and opportunities for the private sector.” This session will among others review the impact of COVID-19 on businesses and their productive/sectoral/cross-border activities and lessons learned and policy implications for building resilience against future shocks;
The second session is titled “The private sector in regional integration in Southern Africa.” This session will review in particular the contents of the AfCFTA in order to inform the private sector participants on the scope, objectives, protocols and provisions of the AfCFTA and the role of regional integration in a post-COVID context of building back better among others.
To participate register here: https://ecasrosa.wufoo.com/forms/z16d6ut115366nf/.
Further information on the meeting and any other related matters should be addressed to:
Ms. Dailes Matoka
Senior Staff Assistant
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa
P.O. Box 30647,
Lusaka, ZAMBIA
Tel: (260) 211 228 502-5
Fax: (260) 211 236 949
E-mail: matokad.uneca@un.org
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Ms. Bineswaree Bolaky
Economic Affairs Officer
Sub Regional Initiatives Cluster
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Sub regional Office for Southern Africa
P O Box 30647,
Lusaka, ZAMBIA
Tel: (260) 211 376 635
Fax: (260) 211 236 949
E-mail: bineswaree.bolaky@un.org
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Mr. Sizo Mhlanga
Acting Director/Officer-in-Charge
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Sub regional Office for Southern Africa
P O Box 30647,
Lusaka, ZAMBIA
Tel: (260) 211 228 502-5
Fax: (260) 211 236 949
E-mail: mhlangas@un.org
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Draft Official Opening Statement by Mr. Sizo Mhlanga - Acting Director, SRO-SA