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AfrIPANet IV

AfrIPANet IV Monitoring Investment Flows Calibrating Investment Governance Enhancing Investment Impact on Local Economies Programme Implementation Implementation strategy Governance structures Implementation work plan Preparatory activities for survey

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AfrIPANet IV

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  1. AfrIPANet IV Monitoring Investment Flows Calibrating Investment Governance Enhancing Investment Impact on Local Economies

  2. Programme Implementation • Implementation strategy • Governance structures • Implementation work plan

  3. Preparatory activities for survey • Established International Advisory Team (IAT) • Prof. Peter Buckley • Prof. Magnus Bloemstrom • Prof. Raphael Kaplinsky • Dr. Clifford Zinnes • Established UNIDO Task Force • Designed questionnaires (FDI, Domestic Investors, Services) • Designed survey methodology • Designing with Microsoft survey management system • Designed implementation strategy • Continuing discussions with EU for financing two surveys

  4. Preparatory activities for SPX • Developed new methodology incorporating three different benchmarking tools • Designed training programmes for SPX staff • Designed linkages between SPX and Monitoring Platform • Developed partnerships with supporting Governments to finance the establishment of an African SPX Network • Austria, Italy, South Africa, Turkey • Formalizing partnership with CIPS

  5. Broad-brush activity list • Pilot testing in two countries • Building project teams in participating countries • Mobilizing interest and participation in survey among companies • Conducting the survey in 20 participating countries • Establishing the Monitoring Platform to host the database, allow interaction among stakeholders within countries and among countries. • Building capacities of IPAs and IO’s to utilize the MP • Establishing SPX Centers in first group of countries • Benchmarking local companies

  6. Survey strategy • Survey will be conducted primarily through interviews • Develop local capabilities to conduct future surveys • Domestic investors will be included in the surveys • In each survey country build an implementation committee (IC) made up of the IPA, one of the private sector institutions and the NSO • The IC will nominate staff that will constitute the Country Implementation Team (CIT) • CIT will conduct the domestic investor surveys

  7. Implementation strategy International Experts for capacity building UNIDO Project Implementation Staff UNIDO Task Force (7x) International Survey Advisory team (5x) UNIDO Networks Microsoft project team (5x) Regional Coordinator (1X) SPX ITPO Field Office Project Steering Committee (PSC) Sub-regional Coordinators (3X) Implementation Committee (IC) National Steering Committee (NSC) Country Team Leader (CTL) (24X) IPA NIS Chamber of Commerce Ministries Apex institutions Private sector representatives At each country level Enumerators Country Implementation Teams (CIT) National Counterparts UNIDO Staff IC Staff working on project implementation Project Personnel

  8. Activity Plan • Recruit Country Team Leader (CTL) • Establish the NSC and IC • CTL and CIT will organize • Sensitization (media, stakeholder mobilization, champions) • Development of business directory • Logistics for the survey • Recruit enumerators for FDI survey • Training of CIT and enumerators in survey and interview techniques and implementation of survey • Implementation of survey

  9. Time Line for survey • 17 November – 5 December Pilot tests in Kenya and Senegal • December Finalization of questionnaire • January – February 2009 Build the country teams • March – April Sensitization • April – July Survey • July – October analysis and report • December dissemination of survey report • Monitoring Platform fully functional by August 2009 • August - December Capacity building of IPAs and IO’s

  10. Time line for SPX • Phase I New SPX Centers in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria (Starting November 2008) • Phase II Upgrade Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal and establish new SPX (Starting January 2009) • Phase III New SPX in five countries in Southern Africa (Starting March 2009) • Funding for another 8 countries under discussion • Individual country SPX projects can be considered • SPX programme will be discussed at RT

  11. SPX activities • Selection of host institution • Establishment of SPX Unit • Recruitment of appropriate staff • Training • Sensitizing local companies (suppliers and buyers) • Supervised benchmarking • Database of benchmarked suppliers linked to MP • Determining buyer requirements • Investment opportunities for upgrading suppliers (IPA) • First 3 years provide free service, after provide a VA service that can be charged for

  12. IPA capacity building

  13. Governance structures • Programme Steering Committee (PSC) • AU, EU, NEPAD, ABRT, RECs • National Steering Committees • Minister, Apex private sector organization, Private sector champions, IPA CEO

  14. AfrIPANet IV Durban, South Africa 24-25 October 2008 THANK YOU www.unido.org/afripanet

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