AFRICAN DESK is a Pan-African organization committed to providing complex solutions to complex African challenges in Trade Facilitation, Transport & Logistics supply-chain, Regional Integration, Communication & Advocacy through top-notch consultancy and advisory services; with conscious for the need to care for the planet earth.
Guided by the ACFTA frameworks and protocols, African Desk is an implementing partner for governments, international organizations, and Multilateral Organizations as well as private sector organizations.
Headquartered in Dar es Salaam, the United Republic of Tanzania, at the heart of one of the African logistical hubs, the African Desk’s goal is to cover the entire continent to promote Trade Facilitation, Regional integration to spur the continent’s economic prosperity through efficiency in African Ports, Logistics, Transport Corridors, as well as Regional economic communities. Using high-level expertise from within the continent and beyond, African Desk provides technical advisory services through research and studies, capacity building as well as communications and advocacy. African Desk believes in African solutions to African problems and thrives to become the major and reliable source of important information and data on the African continent. The African Desk has been registered in Tanzania under Companies Act of 2002.
To promote efficiency in the African continent’s multi-modal transport corridors and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) through jointly coordinated research, capacity buildings, and proper dissemination of best practices.
To see the African continent thrives through free, competitive and interactive intra-Africa trade coupled with seamless logistics & transport networks linking all regions of the continent, backed up by the ACFTA as the leit motif of such revolution in trade.
1. Thinking and doing big;
2. African solutions to African problems;
3. Teamwork for tangible and sustainable results;
4. Committed to respect and embracing diversity;
5. Transparency and Excellence.
Thus the African Desk is an implementing partner for Africa’s governments, international organizations, multilateral organizations as well as the private sector business industry of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) with a view to build the growth of small, micro, and medium enterprises (SMMEs) to achieve greater endogenous economic development through trade facilitation. We are thus resolute in reaching the objectives of the African Union’s (AU) 2063 Agenda and the related United Nations (UN) 2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda. For Africa to become a driver of economic growth that can lead to job and food security, achieve industrialization, and achieve value-driven trade commodities: such actions demand workable infrastructure of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) within a Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.O/4IR) era of artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies, workable roads, railways, increased seaports (berth capacities), renewable green electricity capacity, fibre and cables on land and oceans, and building the human capital development of SMMEs and youth, as specified in Agenda 2063 Aspiration 2 Goal 2 and related UN Agenda 2030 SDG 9.
1. Research on RECs related matters;
2. Capacity building to stakeholders on matters related to implementation of the ACFTA;
3. Training of Trainers of Trainers on ACFTA;
4. Sensitization programmes for Regional Integration matters.
1. Research and feasibility studies for bankable projects;
2. Corridor management programmes;
3. Promote efficiency in Ports and corridor eco-systems;
4. Awarding Best Ports and Corridors.
1. Communicating RECs, Ports and Corridors best practice;
2. Dissemination of the ACFTA Treaty;
3. Communications and Advocacy of research findings from researches;
4. Help organisations to design and implement their Communication and Marketing strategies.
1. Research on RECs related matters;
2. Capacity building to stakeholders on matters related to implementation of the ACFTA;
3. Training of Trainers of Trainers on ACFTA;
4. Sensitization programmes for Regional Integration matters.
1. Research and feasibility studies for bankable projects;
2. Corridor management programmes;
3. Promote efficiency in Ports and corridor eco-systems;
4. Awarding Best Ports and Corridors.
1. Communicating RECs, Ports and Corridors best practice;
2. Dissemination of the ACFTA Treaty;
3. Communications and Advocacy of research findings from researches;
4. Help organisations to design and implement their Communication and Marketing strategies.
