Stakeholders on Africa's infrastructure development meet at Swakopmund

Infrastructure development conference SwakopmundNBC, Tuesday, 12. December 2017,

click on the picture to watch a short video of the conference; more video material is available as live-stream on the official web-site of the conference (see link below)

The third conference on the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) is underway at Swakopmund.

The four-day meeting is aimed at providing a marketing platform for selected PIDA projects and to accelerate their implementation.

The conference is held under the theme Regional Infrastructure Development, Job Creation, and Economic Transformation.

In his address, Hon Alpheus Naruseb, Namibia's Minister of Works and Transport said, "As much as we are 27 years down the road of freedom, there is a dire need for economic emancipation of the masses of our people."

The conference is organised by the African Union Commission, NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, the African Development Bank, the UN Economic Commission for Africa in collaboration with the Namibian Government and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and attended also by the private sector. 

The overall goal of PIDA is to promote socio-economic development and poverty reduction in Africa through improved access to integrated regional and continental infrastructure networks and services.

The programme is designed to develop a vision and strategic framework for the development of regional and continental infrastructure (Energy, Transport, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Trans-boundary Water Resources). The PIDA initiative is being led by the African Union Commission (AUC), NEPAD Secretariat, the African Development Bank, and the United Nation's Economic Commission for Africa.

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