Japan-UNIDO Multi-stakeholder Cooperation Dialogue“Africa and TICAD 7”

UNIDO’s experience in Africa, with a focus
on West Africa
24 october 20181

SummaryI – General UNIDO activities in Africa: what are the opportunities?
II– The regional dimension

III– Success stories in Africa, with Japanese involvement

IV– Enhancing the Japanese contribution to industrialization in thecontext of IDDA III and TICAD VII
V – The way forward2

General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• INDUSTRIAL POLICY Assist African Government in drafting, implementing
and monitoring their industrial strategies and policies
 Capacity building institute of UNIDO
Opportunities: Japanese experience and expertise indrafting industrial policies and implementing tools(institutions, methodologies, coordination,mechanism, industrial governance) for industrialdevelopment
3General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENTPROMOTION
 Private sector development and investment promotion through NorthSouth, South-South and triangular cooperation: Strengthen the ability ofdomestic enterprises to capture emerging subcontracting opportunities
in their countries and increase the local content of major investment
projects in developing countries
 Support enterprise through improved productive capacity andperformance assessment
 Cluster development
Opportunities: There is a need for Africa to attract foreign investment
to bring technology, know-how, capital in various sectors specially inagro-industry, lite manufacturing and infrastructure4General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• QUALITY AND MARKET ACCESS Enhanced trade capacities of local African companies toeffectively support both regional and international trade taking
into account evolving features of international trade and financial
relations and harness them effectively with a view to fostering
structural transformation: supplier development, export
consortia, standardization and quality infrastructure
Opportunities: Opportunity for Japanese companies to import
standardised industrial products from Africa

5General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING Direct technical, technological and financial support to African companies
to improve their competitiveness
Opportunities: Japanese technologies and expertise to improveindustrial processes and productivity• VOCATIONAL TRAINING
 Human capital development with a focus on development of requisite
skills including vocational skills that respond to market demand and canfacilitate SME development with a focus on youth and women
Opportunities: Japanese experience in vocational training with theinvolvement of the private sector
6General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• AGRO-INDUSTRIAL VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT Value chain development at national and regional levels, with a focus on
selected AGRO-INDUSTRIAL sub-sectors which can facilitate
integration into the global economy and accelerate industrialization,competitiveness and innovationOpportunities: Japanese industrial technologies, know-how andcircular-economy development

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General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• AGROINDUSTRIAL PARKS AND SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE Support towards the development of Industrial infrastructure suchas special economic zones and industrial parks to facilitate theimplementation of industrial activities; attract investment; reducetransaction costs and increase the ease of doing business

Opportunities: Secured Japanese investment, technology andvocational training
Japanese experience and expertise in establishing specialeconomic zone8

General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY Support for technological innovation systems to revolutionize
production processes and build strong linkages with the privatesector
 Upgrading of digital capabilities to take advantage of rapiddigitization. Africa needs a digital industrial strategy to address
the opportunities and disruptive challenges offered by the digital
economyOpportunities: Japanese experience in establishing framework
for innovation and technology for the private sector
9General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• ENVIRONMENT The project on Low Carbon and Climate Resilient IndustrialDevelopment (LCCR), currently under implementation in Egypt, Kenya,Senegal and South Africa, helped local businesses to assess vulnerable
areas of their production chains; adopt appropriate technologies provided
by Japanese suppliers for strengthening the climate resilience; andproduce more energy and resource efficient, higher valued products
 Sustainable cities initiative in Africa : Assessment and improvement ofair quality, waste management, energy and water supply and transport National Cleaner Production Centers
Opportunities: Japanese environmental technology and know how byinstitutions and private sector, Involvement of Japanese cities
10General UNIDO activities in Africa: What are theopportunities?
• ENERGY Renewable energy development to decrease countries’ dependency onenergy imports, create jobs and mitigate climate change. Focus should
be on mainstreaming renewable energy in SMEs to increase theircompetitiveness; promotion of renewable energy technologies; andimplementation of innovative business models to encourage investment.
 Activities on promotion of geothermal power generation and its
related technologies are ongoing in selected African countries. Under
the UNIDO Geothermal Programme, UNIDO in cooperation with theJapan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and KenGen will start theOperation and Maintenance capacity strengthening with IoTTechnologies for the Olkaria Geothermal Power Station project.
Opportunities: Japanese technologies in Energy Efficiency qnd
Renewable Energy and know how by institutions and private sector
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The regional dimension: ECOWAS• THE REGIONAL MARKET (ECOWAS) A market of nearly 384 million consumers
 GDP: USD 628 billion
 Harmonized policies within the Region
 Number of Countries: 15• ECONOMIC HUBS
• EFFICIENCY OF REGIONAL INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS Higher impact projects with opportunity for the Private Sector to havehigher returns

12The regional dimension: ECOWAS
Example of UNIDO PROJECTS SUCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED IN WEST
AFRICA (ECOWAS) QUALITY PROGRAMME The ECOWAS Quality Infrastructure has the necessary capacities toeffectively support the implementation of economic agreements of theregion with its partners
 Strong Quality Infrastructure in support of intra ECOWAS and intraAfrican trade, including the application of the ECOWAS Common
External Tariff
 INDUSTRIAL PHARMACEUTICALSUNIDO is supporting ECOWAS through WAHO in the development of aGood Manufacturing Practices Roadmap
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The regional dimension: ECOWAS
 FISHERIES Strengthen the capacity of 4 countries in the subregion (Senegal, Guinea,Mauritania and Côte d'Ivoire) to implement international sanitary,phytosanitary, and sanitary standards, guidelines and recommendations
with a view to improving their opportunities to obtain and maintain accessto the international fish market
 INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING PROGRAMME Upgrading of digital capabilities to take advantage of rapid digitization.
Africa needs a digital industrial strategy to address the opportunities anddisruptive challenges offered by the digital economy

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The regional dimension: ECOWAS ECREE: ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy
Efficiency
 established in Cape Verde with support of the ECOWAS Commission,
UNIDO and the Austrian and Spanish Governments
 The regional centre of excellence works in fifteen West African countries
including the two small island developing states Cape Verde and Guinea
Bissau ECREEE coordinates and executes regional programs, projects andactivities in the areas of capacity and policy development, information anddata sharing, as well as investment and business promotion

Perspective for the development of new Regional projects
 Régional value chain development
 Regional Industrial Parks15

Success stories in West Africa, with JapaneseinvolvementCÔTE D’IVOIRE
Youth training for a better future
Some 3,000 young people, womenand ex-combatants
trained in technical and managerial
skillsTwo training centres rehabilitatedand equipped
The training centres in Bouaké andFerké will help develop sustainable
livelihoods and improve the overallsocio-economic standards of living
for young people, women and excombatants.
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Success stories in West Africa, with Japanese
involvement
LIBERIAUNIDO Partnership with Komatsu
Establish a modern training
academy to provide labor-market
oriented skills in excavator
operation and service to a yearly
intake of 200 young Liberians
Introduce new curriculum modules,
staff development plan for all
trainers, career service points forgraduates
Facilitate apprenticeships forgraduates supporting their transition
into the workforce17

Success stories in Africa, with Japanese involvement
KENYA
Capacity Strengthening of Operation and Maintenance with
Internet of Things Technologies for Olkaria Geothermal Power
Station
The three main stakeholders of the project UNIDO, JICA andKenya.
Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), owner of the power
plant, signed a Joint Declaration aiming to jointly build capacities
and share expertise in order to improve efficiency,
The plan is to install sensors in power generation facilities.
The data will be analyzed by computers in order to increase
the plants’ eciency. The technology allows companies toremotely
monitor and manage the production and distribution of energy
in real time.
18Success stories in Africa, with Japanese involvement
GLOBALThe Low Carbon Low Emission Clean
Energy Technology Transfer (LCET)
Programme
The Low Carbon Low Emission Clean
Energy Technology (LCET)
Programme aims to globally promote therapid deployment and dissemination of
new low carbon technologies, and iscurrently being implemented in Ethiopia,
Kenya and Morocco. The targeted
partnership programme will result intransferring Japan’s ultra-low head microhydropower technology to Ethiopia and
Kenya and redox flow battery technology
to Morocco.
19Identifying opportunities for Japanese business and institutions in west Africa in thecontext of IDDA III and TICAD 7 :Enhancing the Japanese contribution to industrialization in Africa or turning
opportunities into real projects

Lessons learned from the success stories• Project/programme approach Identification of clear objectives and outcomes Clear shared responsibilities between stakeholders
 Secured financing
 Monitoring and Evaluation framework• Partnership approach Multi-stakeholder partnership platform with the involvement ofGovernment, public institutions, private sector and foreign
investors
 Win – win partnership framework• Institutional capacity building to ensure sustainability
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Identifying opportunities for Japanese business and institutions in west Africa in thecontext of IDDA III and TICAD 7 :Enhancing the Japanese contribution to industrialization in Africa or turning
opportunities into real projects
A new cooperation framework improve Africa industrialization: What can IDDA
III and TICAD 7 bring for the Private Sector
 Strategic information on business environment, business opportunities,
company information, etc.
 Improved business environment Identification of priority programmes and projects at regional andnational level Identification of priority sectors
 Identification of investment opportunities Partnership strategy to mobilize financial and technical resources Framework for more substantial involvement of the domestic andforeign private sectors
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THE WAY FORWARD
Establish a coordination and partnership mechanism between
UNIDO, ITPO Tokyo, Japanese institutions, Japanese Private

Sector UN Agencies and other Partners like AfDB, both at fieldlevel and at headquarter level, to share information and to ensure
leveraging of complementarities in interventions andrationalization of technical and financial resources

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