Guinea

<p>Improving sustainable livelihoods for border communities programme aims at reducing irregular migration and supporting vulnerable groups by promoting cross-border trade, addressing non-tariff barriers and enhancing access to finance.&nbsp;</p><p>ITC will support livelihoods development activities for the border communities by :</p><ul><li>Improving financial support to small and medium enterprises and setting-up alternative income activities for cross-border traders, such as manufacturing masks, soap and disinfectant gels;</li><li>Addressing non-tariff barriers to cross-border trade and Improving merchant relations with cross-border agencies to improve the overall climate for trade;</li><li>Organising cross-border social cohesion activities involving multiple communities, such as trade caravans and promotion of cross-border trade;</li><li>Supporting establishment of community based savings tools to enhance economic inclusion and empowerment, particularly among women and youth.</li></ul>

<p>The overall objective of the proposed project is to attract investment and promote trade and sustainable industrial and business development at continental level, concretely supporting the AfCFTA Secretariat and the African Union and delivering on the Africa-EU partnership for sustainable growth and jobs.&nbsp;</p><p>The project contributes to this objective by</p><ul><li>identifying trade and investment opportunities along regional value chains with potential at continental scale in Africa, including potential for investment by EU economic operators;</li><li>Strengthening the EU-Africa dialogue on trade and economic integration, informing high-level events such as the upcoming AU-EU Summit and European- African Business Forum (EABF)</li><li>identifying pilot/selected continental value chains that could be targeted for support in the EU 2021-27 aid programming exercise.</li></ul><p>It supports the implementation of the AfCFTA and ITC&apos;s One Trade Africa Initiative.</p>

<p>The Pineapple Sector Revival Project (REFILA) is the national component for the Republic of Guinea of the West Africa Competitiveness Program (or WACOMP &nbsp;Guinea).</p><p>The objective of the programme is to improve the performance of the Guinean pineapple sector, through the optimization of its value chain, at production, processing and marketing levels, and its integration into regional and international markets.</p><p>The WACOMP Guinea thus contributes to fostering inclusive and sustainable economic growth and a favourable business environment in Guinea.</p>

<p>The SheTrades West Africa project, financed by the Korea International Cooperative Agency (KOICA), is being implemented in Cote d&rsquo;Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The project&rsquo;s goal is to improve the livelihoods of 10,000 women in selected agricultural value chains by 2023. The focus in Sierra Leone and Cote d&rsquo;Ivoire is cashew, in Liberia cassava and in Guinea shea. The project will be working with the governments (ministries of trade, agriculture and gender/women), Business Support Organisations, value chain operators, SMEs and women as part of the farming household to develop the competitiveness and inclusiveness of these sectors, create local value addition, establish new market linkages and increase the benefits for women in these value chains.</p>

<p><span>The overall objective of the regional programme is to &lsquo;&rsquo;Strengthen the competitiveness of West Africa through an enhanced level of production, transformation and export capacities of the private sectors in line with the regional and national industrial and SME strategies&rsquo;&rsquo;. The specific objective is &lsquo;&rsquo;to improve the performance and growth of selected priority sectors and value chains and related services by stimulating their contribution to industry, regional trade and exports&rsquo;&rsquo;. The intervention of ITC in the form of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) will entail the implementation of the activities related to&nbsp;</span><span>the promotion of better regional linkages among selected value chain, support to</span>&nbsp;<span>key regional intermediary organizations, the reinforcement of industrial competitiveness in the region, and the establishment of the West African Competitiveness Observatory and related business tools.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-US">This project aims to address economic and development challenges faced by Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea by rebuilding and reinforcing the productive and trade capacities across the cocoa and cocoa derivatives value chain. It will enable smallholder producers to improve post-harvest efficiency, connect better to markets, add value to increase their competitiveness and comply with standards. Following a step-by-step approach, interventions first focused on Sierra Leone, building on and consolidating activities started under a bridge project launched in Q2 2017 leading to the present NTF IV Mano River Cocoa project. The project will apply lessons learned and expertise gained in Sierra Leone in two other members of MRU, namely Liberia and Guinea.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>The Support Program for the Socio-Economic Integration of Youth (INTEGRA) programme centers around the development of technical and professional skills for Guinea&rsquo;s youth and industries. Its beneficiaries include individuals, enterprises, and institutions across the country, both in the private and public sectors.</p><p>&nbsp;A joint initiative of the Government of Guinea and the <a href="https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en&quot; target="_blank" title="https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en">European Union</a> (EU), INTEGRA is part of the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_15_6055&quot; target="_blank" title="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_15_6055">Valle… Trust Fund</a> to reduce irregular migration to Europe. As such, INTEGRA will contribute to the prevention and limitation of irregular migration by supporting the socio-professional integration of young Guineans and the reintegration of returning migrants.</p>