Multinational - Institutional Support Project for the African Union: African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Implementation

The Institutional Support Project for the African Union: African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Implementation is deigned is to enhance the AU’s institutional Capacity to implement the AfCFTA agreement. It is to help materialize an institutional structure that can best facilitate efficient service delivery and the full-scale implementation of the AfCFTA programmes. The project will also build skills, catalyse inclusiveness and ownership by stakeholders, a requisite for the successful implementation of AfCFTA. The expected outputs are Enhanced AU Institutional capacity to manage the AfCFTA implementation; Improved stakeholders inclusiveness, buy-in and ownership of AfCFTA Agreement. The project comprises two main components, namely: (i) establishment of the AfCFTA Secretariat and (ii) Roll out AfCFTA implementation programs/tools and stakeholder awareness. The Project implementation will span a period of two (2) years (April 2019 – March 2021). The overall cost implications is UA 3.5 Million (USD 4.8million).