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Enhancing Africa’s Trade Transit Facilitation and Connectivity Project

Project Type
Information and Knowledge Sharing
Country/Region
Africa
Implementing Partners
African Development Bank
Financing Type
N/A
Total Financing
USD546,000
Themes
  • Trade Facilitation
Project Description

The MCDF grant will support information and knowledge sharing to address trade transit and customs cooperation bottlenecks to trade flows. This includes research, training of regional economic communities, and development of intervention projects focusing on cross-border trade and transit procedures and customs cooperation to increase efficiency in trade connectivity in Africa.

Target participants will convene regional economic communities in West Africa, along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor covering Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria, and in Southern Africa, along the Nacala Corridor covering Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique. The project is expected to deliver benchmark trade facilitation indicators for research and investment purposes, progress toward harmonized transit policies and lower trade transaction costs across economic corridors, and a robust trade facilitation project pipeline.

Alignment with MCDF Core Values

Transport and logistics are MCDF priority sectors. 

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