NEPAD TRADE FAIR OF INDIGENOUS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

The 2015 NEPAD Trade Fair programme was to include a 6 Day cutting-edge Product Exhibition in a state-of-the-art facility that would bring together exhibitors and participants from various African Countries to showcase products and services made in Africa; and expose the vast and almost inexhaustible investment potentials of each African Country. Each participating African Country would use the opportunity to showcase its products before a globally engaged audience onsite and online.

The Trade Fair Agenda was to consist of the 5-day Exhibition of African made products and services, 2-day Business and Investment Forum on Africa, Africa Achievement Awards, Gallery of African Arts and Culture, African Movie Premiere and African Fashion Parade. It was also hoped that the Trade Fair would be used as a platform for facilitating the NEPAD Product Certification designed to open windows of opportunities for African products in international export market as well as for regulating and ensuring that only quality products are imported into Africa.

Benefit of the Trade Fair to Nigeria

Hosting the NEPAD Trade Fair would consolidate Nigeria’s leadership position in Africa and complement Federal Government foreign policy thrust which is investment driven;
Nigeria would have ample opportunity to market its manufactured goods and showcase its vast investment potentials to a globally engaged audience online and onsite;
Relevant MDAs would leverage on the opportunity to attract international attention to the non-oil sector in line with the Federal government agenda to diversify the economy and create employment opportunities;
The Trade Fair would attract a greater inflow of Foreign Direct Investment into Nigeria;
The NEPAD-Africa Trade Fair would boost business tourism in Nigeria as well as provide opportunity for Nigeria business men to meet with their global counterparts and investing communities expected to visit Nigeria during the Trade Fair; and
Nigeria would tap into local and international resources and experiences that can be useful to the Federal Government in actualizing its development agenda for Nigeria.

Benefit of the Trade Fair to Africa’s Economy

Introduce and promote the use of African made products and services;
Facilitate the actualization of AU/NEPAD local content development agenda;
Promote and encourage locally made products, boost local economy and create jobs;
Increase trade cooperation and integration among African countries;
Enhance effective implementation of all regional protocols on free movement of persons and goods across national borders within Africa;
Improve the consumption and utilization of African made products and services;
Increase acceptance and export opportunities for African made products in the international market;
Increase partnership and joint venture initiatives among African manufacturers;
Enhance the development of a compendium of African made products and services with detailed information of their origin and sources; and
Popularise NEPAD by attracting wider private sector participation in the NEPAD process.

THE NATIONAL COORDINATOR/CEO’S 4R STRATEGY

RE-POSITIONING

NEPAD Nigeria is deeply concerned about Nigeria’s present and future prospects in global economic development given the crisis the nation has witnessed over the years. Thus, our economy has been in shambles as a result of pervasive corruption, erosion of our enviable value system, lack of good governance and poor project implementation from the past regime.
Consequently, NEPAD Nigeria among other things has re-positioned itself to tackle the poor state of the nation’s economy and designed programs and projects that would kick-start the nation’s aspiration for realistic economic diversification, reverse the present recession and put the nation on the path of global competitiveness.

RE-LAUNCHING

• To re-introduce NEPAD to the consciousness of Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike;
• To partner with the Federal MDAs, State and Local Governments, Private Sector, the International Community, NGOs and the Civil Society Organizations in implementing NEPAD programs and projects;
• To introduce a robust partnership for NEPAD Nigeria and constant engagement with the APRM Continental Secretariats and other countries to exchange ideas, share experiences and benefits from economics of scale; and
• To ensure the successful completion of the second country review in partnership with the National Steering Committee.

RE-BRANDING

We have changed to an excellent and tantalizing, brand status vis-a-vis our processes and standards of delivery to make NEPAD Nigeria more attractive to all investors, NGOs and International Donor Agencies in order to place Nigeria and other African countries, individually or collectively, on a path of sustainable economic growth and development. In this wise, we have rebranded our programs and projects mix in response to changes in the global environment so as to halt the marginalization of Africa in the globalization process.
We now have an innovative strategy that aims to make the NEPAD’s brand occupy a distinct position, relative to other MDAs in Nigeria.

RE-ALLIGNING

NEPAD Nigeria has repacked itself as a tool for building an egalitarian society, basic human rights, good governance and key infrastructures for national development.
Therefore the management is the process of working with relevant stakeholders to accomplish organizational mandates
Some of the Critical Deliverable Actions Plans include:
1. Alignment to the nation’s economic policy goals, strategies and priorities with a focus on the economic globalization competitive environment.
2. Setting standard for all aspects of our programs /projects
3. Ensuring effective and efficient operation of all our internal processes and systems.
4. Closing any gap between desired performance and actual performance.

The Presidency NEPAD Nigeria

NEPAD TRADE FAIR OF INDIGENOUS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

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