1. The African Development Bank’s Contribution to Aid for Trade (AfT) Henri A. MINNAAR NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade Department WIPO Conference on Building Partnerships for Mobilizing Resources for Development Geneva, 5 & 6 November 2009

2. African Development Bank Group2 1.The AfDB’s Contribution to AfT Financial and Technical Assistance o Operational Activities o Capacity Building o Knowledge Products Institutional Support to AfT Process o Monitoring and Evaluation o Advisory Groups 2. The Way Forward Outline

3. African Development Bank Group3 The AfDB’s Contribution to AfT AfDB’s Contribution to AfT Institutional Support to AfT ProcessFinancial and Technical Assistance Operational Activities Capacity Building Monitoring and Evaluation Advisory Groups Knowledge Products

4. African Development Bank Group4 Financial and Technical Assistance: Operational Activities Infrastructure accounts for over 75% of the AfDB’s activities -In 2008, the AfDB invested nearly US$2.2 billion in infrastructure 45% on transport 38% on power supply 17% on other infrastructure -Multinational infrastructure also supports regional integration Investments in infrastructure have been scaled up -AfDB supported projects e.g. North-South Corridor and projects within corridors North-South Corridor: US$600 million for 2009-2012 to support activities in the corridor Nacala Corridor US$181 million

5. African Development Bank Group5 Financial and Technical Assistance: Capacity Building and Knowledge Products Capacity Building - Training of trade policy officials, especially through the African Development Institute - Support to trade facilitation programs to increase cross-border trade and regional integration Productive Capacity building -Agriculture Sector: 2006 in US$336 million; 2007 US$230 million

6. African Development Bank Group6 Financial and Technical Assistance: Capacity Building and Knowledge Products Trade Development Trade Finance Initiative: Provision of emergency funds to support trade: US$500 million in the form of lines of credit to African financial institutional to support trade finance operations. US$500 million in the Global Trade Liquidity Programme, which will be jointly implemented with the IFC and other DFIs. Knowledge Products AfDB conducts studies and reports on markets and trade in Africa (i.e. African Competitiveness Report and the African Development Report)

7. African Development Bank Group7 Institutional Support to AfT Process Monitoring and evaluation –Monitor and report AfDB’s financial commitments. Finalized the OECD donor questionnaire Assisted member countries in completing the OECD questionnaire –Participate and support national and regional AfT reviews First regional review was held in Tanzania in 2007 Eastern and Southern Africa sub-regional review was held in Lusaka in April 2009 Regional reviews are planned for West, Central & North Africa –Participate in the AfT Global Review conducted by the WTO Advisory Groups –WTO AfT Advisory Group –Africa AfT Working Group

8. African Development Bank Group8 The Way Forward The AfDB is committed to playing a leadership role in the implementation of the AfT in Africa by: –Addressing soft and hard infrastructure constraints through operational activities –Assisting in institutional capacity building –Providing knowledge –Enhancing the monitoring and evaluation agenda to show the impact of AfT –Sharing lessons with other donors, member countries and regional economic communities