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The 3rd Specialized Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration Ministers’ Meeting 7-8 March 2019 Yaoundé, Cameroon

Eco/STC/MAEPI(III)/MIN/POW Provisional programme of work

Thursday 7 March Venue: Palais de congrès

9: 00-9:30 am Session I: Opening of the meeting

Welcome Remarks Representative of the Government of Cameroon

Opening Remarks H. E. Mr Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the AUC H.E Dr. Joseph Dion NGUTE, Prime Minister of Cameroon

9:30-9:45 am Adoption of the draft Agenda and Programme of Work

9:45-10:45 am Session II: Keynote Speech on “Public policies for productive transformation”

Dr. K.Y Amoako, Founder and President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

General discussion

10:45-11:00 am Coffee break

11:00-11:45 am Session III: Report of the Association of African Central

Banks

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

General discussion

11:45am-1:00pm Session IV: Consideration of the report and recommendations of the Experts’ meeting

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

General discussion

1:00-2.00 pm Lunch

2:00-6:00 pm Session V: The African Capacity Building Foundation Board Meeting

Friday, 8 March

7:00-8:00 am Breakfast session for a conversation on available resources for building productive capacity through Financing Epidemic Prevention in Africa.

9:00-10:00 am Session VI: Panel Discussion Overview of the state and strategies for productive transformation in Africa

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

Moderator: H.E Dr. Claudine Uwere, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning of Rwanda Panellists:  Mr. Souleymane DIARRASSOUBA, Minister of Trade, Industry and SME Promotion-Cote d’Ivoire  Mr. Biendi Maganga-Moussavou, Minister of Investment Promotion, PPP and PME-PMI [Gabon]  Dr. Antonio M.A. Pedro Director of ECA’s Sub-regional Office for .  Private Sector Representative-Patronat Cameroon  Mme Fathia Bennis, Director General, Maroclear Globalment [Morocco]

General discussion

10:00-10:30 am Coffee break

11:30- 12:30 pm Session VII: Panel Discussion Public policies promoting the private sector as an engine for productive transformation

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

Moderator: H.E. Mr. Louis Paul MOTAZE Minister of Finance [Cameroon] Panellists:  H.E Mr. Tito Mboweni Minister of Finance [South Africa]  ASEA Representative (insert title)  Dr. Ousamane Badiane, Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) AFRICA  Mr. Godfrey Simbeye, Executive Director for Tanzania Private Sector Foundation [Tanzania]  Mr. Batirai Manhando, President of Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines and CEO of Bindura Nickel Mine [Zimbabwe]

General discussion

12:30-2:00 pm Lunch break- Launch of the AUC 2018 Africa’s Development Dynamics Report (ADD) and ACBF ACR2019

2:00- 3:00 pm Session VIII: Panel Discussion Regional integration strategies for productive transformation

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

Moderator: H.E Ms. Ingrid Olga Ghislaine EBOUKA- BABAKAS Minister of Plan, Statistics and Regional Integration [Congo Brazzaville] Panellists:  Dr Dalitso Kabambe, Governor, [Malawi]  H.E. Ms. Chileshe Mpundu Kapwepwe, Secretary General, Common Market for Eastern and [COMESA]  H.E. Mr. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President Economic Community of, West African States (ECOWAS) Community  Mr. Mahamat Abbas Toli, Governor, Bank of Central African States [BEAC]  Prof. Wanyama Masinde, Director of the Center for Regional Integration [Kenya]

3:00-4:00 pm Session IX: Panel Discussion Role of transformative leadership for Africa’s productive transformation

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

Moderator: Prof. Emmanuel Nnadozie, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation [ACBF] Panellists:  H.E. Mr. Ahmed Shide, Minister of Finance of Ethiopia  H.E Erastus Mwencha, Former Deputy Chairperson of the AUC and the current Chairperson of the ACBF Executive Board  Dr. Naglaa Nozahle, Adviser to the Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt and the Chairperson of AACB  Prof. Joseph R.A Ayee, Department of Political Science, University of Ghana  Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi, Regional Director, Africa and West Asia, International [IDEA]

General discussion

4:00-4:45 pm Session and X: Consideration adoption of the report and

recommendations of the Ministerial Meeting

Chair: Chair of the Bureau of the STC

General discussion

4:45-5:15pm Session XI: Consideration of the Ministerial

Declaration

5:15-5:20 pm Session XII: Venue of the next STC

5:20-5:30 pm Session XIII: Closing of the Meeting Remarks by the Chair of the Bureau of the STC