AFTSD 

AFTSD assisted in the development of a forward-thinking vehicle for articulating and promoting the African integration vision through a platform for capacity building, policy research, knowledge sharing, information exchange and international collaborations on international trade and regional integration. The center aims to leverage South Africa’s strategic position and economic strength on the continent to nurture two-way trade between South Africa and the rest of the region.  CTRI seeks to train decision makers and key stakeholders, foster and strengthen regional integration, foster strategic collaboration, and knowledge sharing. The center’s work covers four themes: 

 

First:

CTRI will inform African developmental regionalism through a focus on factors that nurture the trade-development nexus in Southern Africa and the rest of the continent

 

Second:

CTRI will seek to help the region organize itself to better influence the WTO's governance, and overall engender trade rules that are supportive to African developmental regionalism

 

Third: 

CTRI shall also inform policy efforts to create a modern age industrialization that is beneficial to both larger and smaller economies as well as vast and small producers in Southern Africa

 

Fourth:

CTRI will leverage Southern African competitiveness to deepen regional integration

 

 

Practically, the Centre will work in the interface of four thematic concerns:

 

1. Trade and regional integration

2. The nexus between research and policy

3. Policy and Action

4. Action and implementation.

 

We invite you to consult the policy note for more information