Revitalizing Partnerships for Green Africa: Insights from Seventh Africa Regional Forum
Explore the key discussions from the Seventh Africa Regional Forum focusing on sustainable development, post-pandemic recovery, increased financing needs, science, technology, innovation, trade, and data challenges in Africa. Discover the call for revitalizing partnerships and strengthening cooperation to achieve the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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Seventh session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development Building forward better: towards a resilient and green Africa to achieve the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063 1 4 MARCH 2021 Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Revitalizing partnerships to promote post Revitalizing partnerships to promote post- -pandemic recovery pandemic recovery Thierry Hyacinthe AMOUSSOUGBO UNECA March 3, 2021
Title Increased financing needs > US$800 bn. 9% decrease in remittance: US$85.8bn (2019) to 78.4bn (2020) Debt/GDP : 61.5% -22 countries : 62-65% Covid-19: weakening public financing mechanism and resource mobilization capacity Debt moratorium - concessional financing, special drawing rights- Debt services suspens. Strengthening international cooperation Promoting innovative PPP and strengthening domestic resource mobilisation
Title COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the pressing need for countries to focus more on elevating science, technology and innovation (STI) in both policy and practical terms Increased digitalisation & Biotechnology Continuous stagnation/low level investment in R&D absent covid-19 vaccine development South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and Morocco are emerging as technology hubs Increase investment in R&D, support national sectorial and regional innovation systems, invest in human capital
Title International & Intra-African trade engine for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction AfCFTA key milestone for SDG and Agenda 2063 goals Reducing tariffs will boost trade by boost trade among African countries by between 15 and 25 per cent (between $50 billion and $70 billion) by 2040 Development of regional value chain and manufacturing industries; E-commerce COVID-19 crisis has also highlighted significant failings in the provision of health and education services.
Title COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need of reliable, quality, independent UpToDate data Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic; many African States were increasing their investments in statistical capacity-building These resources -redirected to address emerging, COVID-19-related priorities Africa between 103 and 177 of the SDG indicators. For 52 indicators no data is available. Plan for Human and Institutional capacity-building and modernization of national statistical system lack coordination and funding
Title Most of African countries have started investing in CD before COVID- but diverge investment after COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the redesign of in-person capacity building to digital training Digital delivery has enabled capacity-building service providers to reach many more countries and beneficiaries with mainly increased of women COVID-19 crisis has compromised the delivery of in situ activities that require hand-on practice. Promote innovative action to strengthen national capacities for data collecting and analysis, use of innovative technologies and big data
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