1-2. Trade, Investment and Tourism   [ Boosting Economic Growth ]

1-2-1. Promote and expand trade

Yokohama Action Plan	Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners	Implementing Partners	Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary)
[1]Provide duty-free and quota-free market access for essentially all products originating from all African least developed countries.		GoJ
[2]Scale up “Aid for Trade” to increase the global competitiveness of African countries by accelerating assistance including Japan’s “Development Initiative for Trade” and support the early, fair and balanced conclusion of the WTO Doha development Agenda negotiations.	● Promote trade of African countries, expansion of Aid for Trade programs, including by leveraging knowledge of Asian countries and provision of technical assistance	EC/EU Member Countries/GoJ/JICA/WBG/Asian countries and other partners	EU: € 2 billion　per year out of which ○% for African countries in the framework of EU Aid for Trade (*)
			GoJ(MOFA): Provide financial assistance to trade-related technical projects in cooperation with international organizations
			JICA: Decuple the quota of trainees in the field of trade
			WBG: Promote South-South cooperation and knowledge sharing between Asia-Africa countries and provide technical assistance for trade policy capacity building
[2]Scale up “Aid for Trade” to increase the global competitiveness of African countries by accelerating assistance including Japan’s “Development Initiative for Trade” and support the early, fair and balanced conclusion of the WTO Doha development Agenda negotiations. [3]Assist product development and export promotion in Africa, by further promoting One Village One Product (OVOP) initiative.	● Promote “One Village One Product” initiative, based on the “Development Initiative for Trade”, by establishing a new comprehensive framework to improve African products’ market access to Japan by (i) providing consultation on African products, (ii) dispatching experts from Japan to Africa, (iii) inviting African people for marketing research, (iv) holding business seminars, (v) supporting African companies participation in trade fairs in Japan, (vi) implementing Development and Import Schemes to assist Japanese companies in commercializing African products	GoJ（METI）/JETRO	Expand JETRO budget on the “One Village One Product” (OVOP) initiative
[3]Assist product development and export promotion in Africa, by further promoting One Village One Product (OVOP) initiative.	● Development and application of a new technical assistance product “One Village-Industrial Clusters” as a vehicle for economic growth and poverty reduction	GoJ(MOFA)/UNIDO	GOJ(MOFA)/UNIDO: $ 565,000 in 2009-2010
[4]Enhance infrastructure management capacity through projects such as the OSBP.
[5]Provide assistance to improve trading practices, and to build capacity in trade policy making and coordination of African countries and RECs.	● Support capacity building in trading practice and trade finance ● Provision of seminars and training courses. Expand trade insurance and support membership of African countries in the Africa Trade Insurance Agency	WBG	(i) Expand IFC trade financing program to $ 1 billion per annum, (ii) Support membership in African Trade Insurance Agency (ATIA)
[6]Others	● Support research and capacity building in gender and remittances: promote effective utilization of remittances for local development	GoJ(MOFA)/UNDP/INSTRAW	Support gender responsive local development through UNDP/Japan WID Fund

1-2-2. Encourage foreign investment

Yokohama Action Plan	Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners	Implementing Partners	Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary)
[0]Overall	● Doubling Japan’s direct investment in Africa by 2012	GoJ
[1]Provide assistance to improve investment climate including the legal and regulatory frameworks in African countries. [2] Support the establishment of an information and consultation platform on the business climate for private companies intending to enter into African markets	● Support improvements in legal system and investment climate (i) Establish or promote an information and consultation platform on the business climate in Africa, (ii) Contribute to achieve self-reliance development of competitive local industries and improve economic and corporate governance	GoJ(MOFA)/JETRO/JBIC/UNCTAD/WBG	GoJ/JETRO: Regularly offer information on the business climate of Africa for Japanese private companies
			GoJ/JBIC/UNCTAD: Provide policy recommendations
			GoJ: Considering providing support for the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative (*) and promote African efforts in investment policy reform
			WBG: Scale up support to presidential investor councils in African countries, expand Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) programs, promote Asia-Africa technical assistance and learning on role of FDI in fostering African enterprises
[3]Utilize more effectively official funding sources such as investment credit, trade and investment insurance to enhance PPP and leverage private capital flows to Africa.	● Utilize other official flows (OOF) to encourage foreign investment to Africa	JBIC/NEXI/WBG	JBIC: Set up the JBIC Facility for African Investment (FAI) and provide financial support of $2.5 billion
	● Utilize actively investment credit, trade and investment insurance		JBIC/IFC: Enhance cooperation based on the Memorandam of Understandings (MOU), especially to strengthen the effectiveness of FAI
			NEXI: Enter into the MOU on cooperation with the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), and promote further trade and investment insurance
	● Enhance Public-Private Partnership to effectively coordinate between official flows and private capitals, to expand good practices of Corporate Social Responsibilities in linking up with official flows	GoJ	Establish a mechanism enabling ODA to complement private sector’s activities contributing to African development
			Dispatch of Public-Private Missions
		GoJ/Private Sector	Dispatch of several Public-Private missions for practioners
		GoJ(MOFA)/GoJ（METI）/JICA/JOGMEC/JATA/Private Sector	Dispatch of several Public-Private missions for practioners
		GoJ（METI）/UNIDO-ITPO Tokyo	Delegate programme to promote trade and investment to Africa
		UN OSSA/Private Sector	Dispatch trade and investment identification missions
	● Promote European companies’ business with Africa through EU-Africa Business Forum	EC/EU Member Countries	EU Private Sector Enabling Environment Facility; EC-ACP BizClim € 20million FY 2008-13
	●Promote Japanese companies’ business with Africa through Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) programme	GoJ(MOFA)/UNDP	GoJ (MOFA): Support GSB programme through Japan-UNDP Partnership Fund UNDP: To consolidate its attempt to engage Japanese companies in GSB in Africa
[4]Provide assistance for capacity building to improve economic and corporate governance.	● Strengthen economic and corporate governance of African countries through the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative	GoJ/NEPAD-OECD	GoJ: Consider providing support for the NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative (*)
[5]Others	● Start up bilateral consultation frameworks including bilateral legal framework such as Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) for improving business climate	GoJ(MOFA)/GoJ（METI）	Consider BIT negotiations
			Organize Joint Trade Committee(JTC)

1-2-3. Assist private sector development

Yokohama Action Plan	Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners	Implementing Partners	Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary)
[1]Support African countries to plan and implement industrial development strategies and policies, drawing on Asian experiences as appropriate.	● Support African countries in policy making on industrial development strategies and provide technical support for improving industrial development	GoJ(MOFA)/JICA/AOTS/WBG	GoJ (MOFA)/JICA: Expand the quota of private sector development-related training programs for 1500 Africans
			AOTS: Provide training for Africa to promote facilitating trade and investment through transferring Japan’s technical skills(*)
			WBG: (i) Expand knowledge transfer between Asia and Africa on business climate, (ii) Engage in lending, technical assistance, and advisory work on investment climate reforms and cooperation in 40 Sub-Saharan African countries
[2]Provide technical support to improve productivity, competitiveness and business expertise in promising industries, taking into account the effectiveness of information and communication technology (ICT).	● Support African countries to develop intellectual property related systems and human resources in order to achieve self-sustained development of competitive local industries as well as improve the investment climate	GoJ（METI）/WIPO	Offer 1.1million CHF to the WIPO Fund-in-Trust of Japan as voluntary contribution for capacity building per annum from 2008(*)
	● Gem Cutting Training Project for a potential African country	RTG（TICA）/RTG (Department of Industrial Promotion)	For the year 2009, ca. $ 60,000 RTG: for the year 2010, ca. $ 60,000 (training expenses and equipments)
	● Support the improvement of knowledge on introductions of terrestrial digital broadcasting in African countries	GoJ (MIC)	Dispach experts to the seminar on terrestrial digital broadcasting in Mozambique (for 2009)
[3]Expand assistance to support the development of small and medium enterprises and local industries.	● Support financial assistance to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) activities and local industries	GoJ(MOFA)/AfDB	GoJ: Enhance contribution to EPSA/AfDB by providing additional loan ($300 million in 2008)
	● Support the development of small and medium enterprises and local industries	GoJ(MOFA)/UNIDO	$ 5 million in 2008 for enterpreneurship training
[4]Collaborate with international financial institutions and regional development banks to strengthen the financial sector, including through the development of local bond markets and local currency financing mechanisms.	● Strengthen the financial sector, including developing local bond market and local currency financing mechanisms, facilitate sharing of experiences among countries, provision of technical assistance. Expand collaboration on Making Finance Work for Africa	WBG other partners	WBG:(i) Launch partnership for making finance work in Africa (ii) Hold regional workshops to share experience of financial sector innovation and best practices
[5]Provide technical and financial assistance to promote self-reliant utilization of energy and mineral resources.	● Provide technical cooperation and financial assistance for promoting energy and mineral resources industries ● Provide cooperation including the field of remote-sensing for mineral resources in Southern African Development Community (SADC)	GoJ（METI）/JOGMEC	Provide technical assistance and financial supports for oil exploration projects
	● Support for coal exploration and development activies	GoJ（METI）/NEDO	Prvide for basic information about coal reserve, quality and infrastracture, facilitate future development activies of the Japanese private sector

1-2-4. Promote tourism

Yokohama Action Plan	Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners	Implementing Partners	Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary)
[1]Encourage and assist African countries’ efforts to address security, hospitality management, infrastructure and environmental constraints to tourism development including through tourism training programs.	● Implement projects on capacity building including training programmes and dispatch of experts in collaboration with regional tourism training centres in Africa	JICA	Decuple the quota of trainees in the field of tourism
[2]Support tourism operators to increase familiarization with African destinations and improve knowledge of the continent and what it has to offer.	● Support tourism of non-African countries operators in developing familiarization measures of Africa and improving their knowledge of Africa and what it has to offer	WBG	Continue and expand tourism projects in at least 5 countries
[3]Exploit the opportunity provided by the 2010 World Cup Soccer Tournament in South Africa to support long-term tourism promotion through events such as travel fairs.	● Engage in long-term tourism promotion by utilizing events such as travel fairs, taking account of the 2010 World Cup Soccer Tournament in South Africa	GoJ（MLIT）/GoJ(MOFA)	Promote African sector of the annual travel fair

●Concrete projects will be selected through consultations between Japan/Implementing Partners and African countries.
●MDB projects are to be decided.
●$ = US dollars
●Assistance measures written on a yellow ground are those embodied in 2008 (JFY) after TICAD IV.
●Assistance measures written on a pink ground are those embodied in 2009 (JFY) after TICAD IV.