Develop Integrated Programmes to Alleviate Binding Constraints to Development
by Fostering Structural Transformation, Building Productive Capacities
and Enhancing Investment Opportunities and Linkages with China
Reference
PDF-SDG-2020-03
Implementing Entity/ies
UNCTAD
Collaborating Partners
UNECA, UNIDO, UNCTs
Duration
Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2024
Location
Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Approved Budget
$ 1,070,000
Description
The project aims to assist selected developing economies in Africa to harness the transformative potential of Chinese partnership in Africa, including in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, for their economic development. The selected developing countries are already beneficiaries of increased trade and investment relations with China, and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative in the form of significant infrastructure investments. However, to date, they have not always been able to transform the greater trade and investment opportunities arising from Chinese engagements into sustainable development gains, due to their lack of productive capacities and structural transformation. By identifying and analyzing the binding constraints to the fostering of productive capacities and structural transformation in the eight pilot countries, as well as developing concrete capacity©\building programmes and policy©\recommendations to harness closer trade and investment links with China, the project will assist in multiplying the potential development benefits of the Belt and Road initiative, and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNCTAD is the implementing agency responsible for the project in collaboration with other strategic partners including UNECA and UNIDO as well as the UN Resident Coordinators¡¯ Offices and UN Country Teams in the beneficiary countries.