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ICF Investment Climate Summit 2010
3rd to 4th May 2010
ICF hosted a Summit on the Investment Climate in Africa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 3-4 May 2010. The Summit created a unique platform for Heads of State, senior government officials and private sector representatives to discuss Africa’s investment climate.
The Summit focused on four priority themes: business registration and licensing; customs and taxation; commercial justice and anti-counterfeiting and piracy. Delegates discussed successful interventions in each area, and the specific positive impact generated by reforms on individual countries’ and regions’ business climates.
The Summit resulted in the following key conclusions:
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Improving the business climate is an integral part of any African government’s domestic agenda to eradicate poverty and should not be seen as an external imposition. - w
Helping Africa’s domestic investors to increase their activity is at least as important to economic growth as attracting foreign direct investment. - e
The quality of the partnership between business and government determines the success of any business climate reform initiative. Africa’s private sector must engage even more intensely in the reform process, identifying priority areas for action and securing their government’s commitment to address them. - r
Host government ownership and commitment from the very top is key to project success. - t
ICF’s approach is producing real results. More governments and firms must take full advantage of ICF’s catalytic affect to tackle their business climate challenges. - y
As new technologies are introduced to make governments’ administrative processes more business-friendly, public and private sector users must be trained to use them in order to realise the full advantage of the improvements. - u
The valuable knowledge exchange that occurred at the ICF Summit should be repeated more frequently with similar gatherings organised at a regional level.
Please click here to download the 2010 Investment Climate Summit summary paper.
ICF looks forward to repeating the success of this event in the future to further facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experiences.
ICF Investment Climate Summit 2010
3 May 2010 ICF hosted a Summit on the Investment Climate in Africa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 3-4 May 2010. The Summit created a unique platform for Heads of State, senior government officials and private sector representatives to discuss Africa’s investment climate.
London Plays Host to Africa’s Most Ambitious Journalist Training Programme
2 Nov 2009 London played host to a groundbreaking training programme for African journalists last week, organised by the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The Investment Climate Facility for Africa is a unique public-private partnership between government and business that aims to help Africa create a more attractive business environment and realise its potential as a global player and trading partner. ICF works to remove real and perceived obstacles to domestic and foreign investment by assisting Africans to prepare and promote the continent as an investment destination. ICF has the support of Africa institutions, international development partners and private sector companies. - w
ICF is supported by a range of corporate investors and development partners, as well as African governments, who have all proved receptive to ICF's vision of an improved investment climate for Africa. African Governments working in partnership with ICF include: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia, as well as the East African Community and OHADA. ICF’s Corporate Partners include: Anglo American, Coca-Cola, SAB Miller, Sasol, Standard Bank and Unilever. Development partners include: Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, Africa Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation.
For more information or to request an interview with an ICF spokesperson, please contact:
Emilienne Macauley, Tel : +255 22 212 9211 emacauley@icfafrica.org
Neema Mosha, Tel : +255 22 212 9211 nmosha@icfafrica.org
ICF Project Activity
Modernisation of the Judiciary - Zambia
ICF supported the government of Zambia to digitalise the Judiciary.
Business Life Cycle Services - Cape Verde
A partnership between the government of Cape Verde and ICF enhanced administrative services for business registration, licensing and closure.
Computerisation of customs department - Liberia
A project in partnership with Liberia’s Ministry of Finance, has computerised the manual paperwork systems in the Customs House and Port of Monrovia and provided basic computer training to 110 customs employees on the new systems.
Tax dispute resolution - Mali
ICF is working with Mali’s government to improve the efficiency of tax dispute resolution.
