The Ministry of Trade and Export Development will launch a new information website on trade agreements with Africa and a mobile application for communication and internal coordination for this subject on November 3.
The new website will be a point of access to centralized information on trade agreements with Africa. And this for all the Tunisian actors concerned, according to a press release published on Friday by GIZ.
As for the mobile application, it is an innovative tool for digitizing and boosting internal coordination between the various ministries and public and private organizations involved in the negotiation and implementation process of trade agreements with Africa.
Indeed, these digital tools have been designed in cooperation with GIZ, under the mandate of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). And this within the framework of the project “Promotion of creative export activities of employment towards new African markets (PEMA) โ.
In recent years, the PEMA project has focused, among other things, on building the capacity of representatives of the Ministry of Commerce and other actors working on the agreements.
Tunisia selected for ZLECAF project monitoring activities
Over the next few years, German development cooperation will support, according to the German cooperation agency, more the Tunisian authorities and the private sector in the phases of negotiation and implementation of agreements with Africa.
Through the โSupport to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)โ project, GIZ is supporting the African Union in its efforts to coordinate the ongoing free trade negotiations and the transition to the implementation of the ZLECAf since 2017.
Tunisia was recently selected, along with four other African countries, for the follow-up activities of the ZLECAF project: a national component in Tunisia of this project will be announced during the workshop to be held on November 3. “This new national component will focus on supporting and building the capacity of representatives of the Ministry of Commerce and other relevant Tunisian parties, who are working together on the ZLECAF agreement.”