Signing ceremony
African delegation visit factory in China
Sharing information during a business match making event
Validation workshop

Partnership for Investment and Growth in Africa (Main Phase)

    Overview

    Summary

    PIGA is a partnership of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s Department for International Development (DFID), China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund), China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the International Trade Centre (ITC).

    Under this partnership, DFID, CADFund, CCPIT and ITC deliver together a project to increase investment-led exports and local development in two productive sectors, agro-processing and light manufacturing.

    PIGA was officially launched on 22 October 2015 in London, on the sidelines of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK. PIGA, is a component of Invest Africa, a large DFID programme linking private sector investors, buyers, financiers and governments in several African countries to boost manufacturing and create jobs by increasing foreign direct investment (FDI).

    PROJECT GOAL 
    To increased exports, jobs and local development through foreign investments and business partnerships in agro-processing and light manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia. 


    To achieve the project goal, the PIGA main phase activities are:

    Facilitate and generate business partnerships between African and Chinese companies
    -Organizing B2B events, investment awareness seminars and visits of Chinese investors to Africa
    -Building capacities of African companies to receive FDI and technology transfer
    -Promote linkages between investors and local suppliers

    Strengthen capacities to deliver investment services
    -Improve Trade and investment support institutions’ (TISI) investment promotion services
    -Develop investment guides and online investment information platforms for foreign investors
    -Improve TISIs effectiveness in measuring and monitoring FDI

    Overcome obstacles to FDI and enable knowledge shared (UK-China-Africa)
    -Conduct public-private roundtables at national level to address reported challenges by investors
    -Organize Investment Business Summits and workshop for experience and knowledge sharing


    Partners

    Sustainable Development Goals

    This project contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals, as defined by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

    Bringing sustainable Chinese Investment to Africa

    The Partnership for Investment and Growth in Africa (PIGA) aims to increase growth and job creation in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zambia by promoting sustainable Chinese investments in the agro-processing and light manufacturing sectors. 

    Through PIGA, the International Trade Centre (ITC) has: 

    • Facilitated seven investment deals worth more than $115 million to four PIGA countries. These investment deals generated 2,989 jobs and more than 14,500 committed to future development. 

    • Organized 20 business and investment promotion events and seven roadshows with more than 1,700 African, Chinese, and UK stakeholders participating. 

    • Developed 35 kinds of investment promotion materials with African Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs). 

    • Trained more than 800 IPA staff to improve their investment promotion services, and customized and implemented a Foreign Direct Investment tracking tool within each IPA.  

    • Developed communication and investment promotion materials for Investment Promotion Agencies. 

     

    Leveraging virtual learning to help promote sustainable investment practices.
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    African small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are the growth levers to ensure local value addition and job creation. Increased Chinese investment support for African SMEs in the light manufacturing and agro-processing sectors will unlock opportunities to increase exports to regional and global markets. This is what we aim to achieve through PIGA
    African small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are the growth levers to ensure local value addition and job creation. Increased Chinese investment support for African SMEs in the light manufacturing and agro-processing sectors will unlock opportunities to increase exports to regional and global markets. This is what we aim to achieve through PIGA
    Arancha González
    Former Executive Director, ITC
    IGA support to attract valuable investment leads, especially for investment promotion agencies facing funding issues, as this support is key for outreach activities, staff capacity building and the development and publishing of investment promotion materials.
    Dr. Moses Ikiara
    IGA support to attract valuable investment leads, especially for investment promotion agencies facing funding issues, as this support is key for outreach activities, staff capacity building and the development and publishing of investment promotion materials.
    Dr. Moses Ikiara
    KenInvest
    Thanks to the ITC PIGA team and all project partners in China and Africa for the good results achieved by underlining the difficult times globally due to Covid-19.  PIGA is scored A+ in FCDO internal annual review.
    Kerry Conway
    Thanks to the ITC PIGA team and all project partners in China and Africa for the good results achieved by underlining the difficult times globally due to Covid-19.  PIGA is scored A+ in FCDO internal annual review.
    Kerry Conway
    FCDO UK

    Resources

    ITC contact

    Sylvie
    Cochin
    Email
    betemps [at] intracen.org