📋 Tender Overview
Project number:
2020.2208.5
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible organizational unit:
1740 African Union
Contact person:
Dr. Giuseppe Scuto giuseppe.scuto@giz.de
Partner countries:
African Union, Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo Dem. Rep., Central African Republic, Congo Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equator. Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha (UK/C), Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
SUMMARY
Goals:
The framework conditions for the implementation of the Pan-African Free Trade Area have been strengthened.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
African Union
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
79,256,348 euros
Current project:
70,013,445 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
European Union (EU): 7,513,445 euros
PREVIOUS PROJECT
2016.2000.4
Pan-African Free Trade Area (CFTA) - GIZ module
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
February 19, 2015 - June 30, 2026
Current project:
01.08.2020 - 30.06.2026
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
ARGE GOPA Worldwide Consultants GmbH -
GFA Consulting Group GmbH
GOPA Worldwide Consultants GmbH
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
33130 Regional trade agreements
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
In 2022, intra-African trade accounted for 17 percent of total African trade volume. By comparison, the share is 51 percent in North America, 49 percent in Asia, 22 percent in Latin America, and even 69 percent in Western Europe. Although regional economic communities are striving for integration, the African market remains fragmented.
The trade ministers of the African Union (AU) have agreed to establish the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). With this step, they aim to create greater integration in the region. So far, 54 of the 55 member states have signed the AfCFTA agreement, and by August 2023, 47 states had ratified it. Germany has supported the process since negotiations began in 2015. In 2023, the AU declared the acceleration of AfCFTA implementation as its theme of the year. This is intended to highlight the importance of the free trade area.
Objective
The project creates and consoli
