Reverse Linkage

25 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION in the sharing of experience and modern technology within the framework of SSC. BADEA’s potential activities targeting technical coop- eration with the African recipient countries will include augmenting the organization of technical and scientific conferences that address the vital issues influencing these countries. Issues include climate change, natural disasters such as floods, desertification and epidemics, as well as the development of strategies in sub-Saharan countries aiming at fostering SSC. BADEA will also support the organizing of conferences aiming at promoting trade among African countries and between African and Arab countries. The future technical assistance operations will also focus on organising meetings for civil societies in Sub-Saharan African countries to support the capacity of women, youth and children to enhance their contribution to the conti- nent’s socio-economic welfare. Efforts will also be devoted to adapting BADEA’s technical assistance operations to the requirements for the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 2015– 2020 and the Agenda for Africa 2063.This includes organising training programmes and conferences for relevant African cadres involved in the implementation of the approved initiatives such as the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP), the New partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA). In view of the momentous role played by the private sector in the economic development of Sub-Saharan African coun- tries, BADEA’s technical assistance programme will include allocations for the preparation of feasibility studies for private-public partnership projects that the private sector is involved in financing. BADEA’s technical assistance support will address the facilitation of the partnership between the public and private sector and prepare the African countries to embrace such joint projects. The programmes will include studies to develop the appropriate legal and legislative framework for partnership projects; the provision of train- ing to qualify national cadres in the relevant legal, financial and institutional fields; and the preparation of engineering, environmental and marketing studies related to partnership projects especially in the fields of energy, water and trans- portation. Furthermore, technical support will also be made available for organizing conferences to promote partnership projects and the provision of Arab experts in the field of public-private partnership projects. BADEA also intends to invigorate its highly successful collaboration with the Arab development financing institu- tions in the field of technical assistance with the objective of implementing longer term training and sector study programmes of up to five years. This includes broadening BADEA’s fruitful cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank by adopting its Reverse Linkage initiative which aims at sharing knowledge, expertise and technology within the framework of SSC. BADEA aspires to play a linking role between the centres of excellence that supply to the technical service sectors in the Arab countries and those centres receiving technical service in the African coun- tries, to achieve mutually beneficial, result-oriented and programme-based outcomes. Agro products processing training in Senegal Image: BADEA