Open Day in Windhoek, Namibia Theme: Africa Economic Integration & Green Economy

1. Dr. (Eng.) Kioko Mang’eli, President, African Organization for Standardization Open Day in Windhoek, Namibia Theme: Africa Economic Integration & Green Economy Players: NSBs, The Green People of Africa, State and Private Sector and the Citizen of Africa Tool: Knowledge Management Tooling in Standards, Conformity Assessment & Accreditation Commitment: Establish Responsible and Responsive Green Economy Systems to Support Green Economy and Integration of African Economy

2. Preamble Players P1. ARSO provides technical and advisory support to AU initiatives in the realm of standards, conformity assessment and accreditation. The NSBs are an important building block of this system and do translate the continental system to the African citizenry aspiration through the national systems. RECs unite the National systems in the regions such that the pillars to the continental economy have a common platform in trade and development (basis of economic integration). The people of Africa (the citizens) who do simple things in a great way, the African private sector most of it being SME and all those who work in the fields, rivers, oceans and forests are the hope of Africa in achieving positive green inflexion development. P2. AEM is a AU initiative supported by UNEP and BMZ (Donor). ARSO hosts the initiative and is chair to Technical Board in addition to being in the Executive Board. There are other players such as ARSCP, UNIDO, all the RECS, Private sector and existing international and inside Africa resource management organizations in the green area of the economy. P3. AEM is controlled by an Executive Board (EB) composed of RECs, AU, UNEP, UNIDO, GIZ, ARSO, ARSCP and AEM Secretariat reporting), the Sounding Board, a subset of EB and consisting of AU, UNEP, ARSO, ARSCP and GIZ is tasked with program optimization and management streamlining.

3. P4. The Knowledge Business P4.1 Building a Knowledge -based society The continent, regions, countries, companies and individuals should realize that knowledge is plays a crucial part in their competitive abilities and growth. Developments in business, society and technology continuously require adaptations on processes, products and services in order to meet the increasingly complex demands of the market. The requirement is a change in how knowledge and skills are developed, organized and effectively deployed (knowledge construction). P4.2 Compete in a knowledge-based society Standards Knowledge Management Tooling (KMT) is about smart ways of working and about smart business. Bringing KMT capability to your organization and that way to the continent will help us to turn knowledge into action, and to manage knowledge to achieve African business benefits and create competitive Africa in a true global sense. P4.4 Effective knowledge management enables businesses to Share knowledge across borders (functional, divisional, regional and cultural) in order to improve business performance Learn before, during and after activities to increase efficiency and effectiveness Learn from partner, colleagues, customers and other parties to improve processes, products and services

4. P5. The Economy, Integration and the Green Path P5.1 African Economy By 2040, it will be home to one in five of the planet’s young people (This week our population is 1.05 billion from the 1.031 in May 2011), and the size of Africa’s labor force will top China’s. Africa has almost 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land and a large share of the natural resources. Africa’s consumer-facing sectors are growing two to three times faster than those in the OECD7 countries. And the rate of return on foreign investment is higher in Africa than in any other developing region. African People and their Governments cannot afford to ignore this phenomenon. A strategy for Standardization within the economic integration program of AU/AUC must be part of Pan African Quality Infrastructure their long term planning. One such practical example of Pan African Quality Infrastructure is the African Ecolabeling Mechanism. P5.2 Quest for Integration Our global trade per centum stands at 3% and is quickly depreciating. Intra-African trade is less than 10% and is quickly dwindling. RECs have brought in new statistics and thinking and insights in intra regional trades (Tanzania becoming Kenya’s biggest trading partner in 2 years after establishment of EAC, Egypt becoming biggest trading partner to COMESA countries…Growth in Volumes and variety of products despite the spring). Can this integration help us build confidence between ourselves, bring us freedom and liberate us from oppression by other economies and players…from counterfeited and substandard products trade? Can we reduce time to markets and share values that are common to us? Can we create the wealth internally and achieve the dignity we have fought for through all the liberation wars? Can we usher in new hope and create wealth for our citizens through integration?

5. P6.0 Strategic Objectives 1. Reduce conflicts to achieve continental security and stability; 2. Achieve the necessary continental security and stability as a prerequisite for Africa’s development and integration; 3. Promote sustainable economic development; 4. Promote sustainable social and human development; 5. Formulate frameworks for developing and sharing Africa’s Statistics, and Research & Development capacities; 6. Enhance continental integration; 7. Build and foster continental and global cooperation; 8. Promote good governance, democracy and human rights; 9. Strengthen the Africa-wide humanitarian response and action; AEM addresses SO3, SO4, SO6 and SO7; It is set on a continent wide platform and is about the livelihoods of ordinary citizens

6. P6.1 Strategic Objectives ..... • 10.Promote Inter-African solidarity; • 11.Promote African Cultural Renaissance and the protection of Africa’s cultural heritage; • 12.Promote the active participation and contribution of all segments of the African society in Africa’s development and integration; • 13.Promote the ratification and entry into force of all outstanding legal instruments adopted by the Assembly of the Union; • 14.Promote gender equality; • 15.Strengthen the capacity and enhance the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the African Union Commission; • 16.Promote synergies, linkages and good working relations with all AU Organs; • 17.Promote effective cooperation and collaboration with Member States and the RECs; • 18.Promote strategic partnerships for leveraging sustainable sources of funding and comparative advantages. • AEM addresses SO1i1, SO12, SO17and SO18; It will also promote the fisheries, agriculture, forestry and tourism which addresses livelihoods of our citizens

7. With proper knowledge management tooling and riding on the pillars of standardization and well regulated economies on the basis of standards and CA regimes Africa will play an increasingly important role in the global economy. By 2040, Africa will be home to one in five of the planet’s young people (This week our population is 1.042 billion from the 1.031 in May 2011), and the size of Africa’s labor force will top China’s. Africa has almost 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land and a large share of the natural resources. Africa’s consumer-facing sectors are growing two to three times faster than those in the OECD7 countries. And the rate of return on foreign investment is higher in Africa than in any other developing region. ARSO membership and the PAQI fraternity cannot afford to ignore this phenomenon. A strategy for Africa within the economic integration program of AU/AUC must be part of our strategy and our long term planning. What a good setting for promotion of green economy! P7 Green & Bright future for Africa

8. The African resources has been about tears and misery but today there is more than a story about resources, even some successes. Africa will continue to profit from rising global demand for oil, natural gas Pipeline Nigeria-Algeria, Tanzania gas for Eastern Africa, Hydropower from the DR Congo and the East African Power Pool (EAPP), minerals all across the region, food trade across borders(Malawi Maize to Kenya), arable land (plenty of it in ZIM and Namibia), Uranium, electronics related minerals and the like. UNDP research finds that over the next decade, the world’s liquid-fuel consumption will increase by 25 percent—twice the pace of the 1990s. Projections of demand for many hard minerals show similar growth. Meanwhile, Africa boasts an abundance of riches: 10 percent of the world’s reserves of oil, 40 percent of its gold, and 80 to 90 percent of the chromium and the platinum metal group. Those are just the known reserves; no doubt more lies undiscovered. We have plenty more to unearth and everybody wants it. We must set the standards as pillars for this trade and choose the green path with the necessary tools in standardization and conformity assessment to guarantee value for our products without messing up our environment! P8. Global Economic Ties

9. Demand for commodities is growing fastest in the world’s emerging economies, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. Despite long-standing commercial ties with Europe, Africa now conducts half its trade with developing economic regions (“South–South” exchanges). From 1990 through 2008, Asia’s share of African trade doubled, to 28 percent, while Western Europe’s portion shrank, to 28 percent, from 51 percent. This geographic shift has given rise to new forms of economic relationships, in which governments strike multiple long-term deals at once. China, for example, has bid for access to ten million tons of copper and two million tons of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in exchange for a $6 billion package of infrastructure investments, including mine improvements, roads, rail, hospitals, and schools. India, Brazil, and Middle East economies are also forging new broad-based investment partnerships in Africa. Where are the underpinning pillars for this trade? Demand for our food grown under the sun and pure river water flowing down from our mountains in a clean environment is already in demand in Europe and we can feed 50% of Europe if our food is so produced. We can increase the export ratio if we are working from a green path perspective. P9. Demand for Africa’s Commodities

10. P10. African countries by exports per capita and by economic diversificationGrowth opportunities and challenges variance across the continent The green economy can bring in up to 15% growth in 5-10 years in every country.

11. Commitments Bright & Green Future Strategizing P11. SMART & SERIOUS People Africa Confronting Issues Brightly Planning Doing Smart Business

12. P12.1 Green Path Dynamics • “…conservation is still distanced from our everyday life in minds of many people. Yet we all know that conservation is part and parcel of our lives. We touch it, we shape it and it shapes us on a daily basis.” Prof. Wangari Maathai (now departed). • If conservation can be touched, if we can shape and for sure it does shape us, then it obvious that there are great opportunities for Africa and mankind in conservation and this simply implies that the green path of development is most sustainable and viable option in development. We all need to be happy. Let us not be happy at the expense of our tomorrow. • P12.2 Every Nation, Every Person needs a bright future. How Green is that future and what are we doing to guarantee a bright green future for our societies? • We share knowledge of our mother earth and the resources at our disposal • Self respect entails respect for mother earth and brings us dignity in our daily lives • When we respect our environment, we also respect people in that environment and therefore we have a shared future • The shared future becomes green and bright when we all abide by the norm of shared environmental values • The future can be as green and as bright as we make it…it is about “doing simple things in a great way”…(Prof Wangari Maathai)

13. P13 What is the current status of business…organized in a chaotic way..thermodynamics…heat…diagnosis…results.. All Players Know What They Want From The Market KMT is in Use Optimized ? NO! Are There Opportunities Here? What Level of KMT Is in play? Standards Optimize YES We need to reorganize africa the standards way KMT and the Green Path….

14. P14. Discovery Role is envisaged for the NSBs in integration of the African Economy and the African Green Economy and in particular AEM as project no.1 in our endeavor to green economy. I. All economies in Africa should be reorganized to bring standards in as a critical input parameter in production and consumption (ACCESS TO MARKET) II. All economic underpinnings including but not limited to national quality policy, quality infrastructure development, legal framework, Economic Partnership Agreements, Commercial and governmental service systems (NATION CENTERED TRANSPARENT GOVERNANCE PROCEDURES) III. Structural preparedness of Government Services in Agriculture & Forestry, Livestock & Fisheries, Wildlife & Tourism, Marine & Aquaculture, Energy & Manufacturing development and Management (NORMATIVE STANDARDS) IV. Participation and full support of the African Ecolabelling Mechanism, standards development and reviews, adoption of program and nationalization IV. Training services in use of standards and standards organized knowledge disseminated to industrial organizations, farming communities and sector regulators (TEXT AND LANGUAGE) V. Supervisory Schemes rendered as standardization services in production especially in innovation processes, manufacturing (including reverse engineering), packaging, logistics especially transport and in particular freighting (CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT; INSPECTION, MEASUREMENTS(METROLOGY), TESTING, CERTIFICATION, AND ACCREDITATION)

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