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Africa Region Tourism Strategy : Transformation through Tourism - Harnessing Tourism for Growth and Improved LivelihoodsThis paper presents the strategy vision for Africa of promoting tourism. The strategy relies on four pillars: policy reforms, capacity building, private sector linkages, and product competitiveness. Working closely with client countries, implementation of the Africa Region Tourism Strategy, will focus interventions in these four areas in order to address the persistent constraints to the growth of tourism in Africa. Combined, these interventions will enable high-demand tourism products to compete in the global marketplace. The approach is region-wide; it engages staff across the Bank's Africa Region. Implementation will be led by Africa Region s Finance and Private Sector Development Department (AFTFP). The World Bank Group support to the Africa tourism sector is currently 120 million US dollars. It could reach 500 US dollars million by 2015, generating as many as 300,000 direct formal jobs. The report examines the social, environmental, and economic risks associated with poorly managed tourism, and offers recommendations based on years of experience with tourism projects.This review has provided a snapshot of what Bank has been doing to support tourism development, and its alignment with national strategies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The findings from this review are anticipated to facilitate future dialogue and negotiations among tourism stakeholders to increase support for tourism development in the region.
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Handshake, No. 10 (July 2013)This paper includes the following
 headings: education public, private, and partnerships, or
 PPPs come of age; vouching for the future; mobile learning
 dials up success; U.S. Secretary of Education by Arne
 Duncan; perspective; compass; and legalese.
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A Review of International Legal Instruments : Facilitation of Transport and Trade in Africa, Second EditionThis is the second edition of the 2003
 paper entitled "Facilitation of transport and trade in
 Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of international legal
 instruments - Treaties, conventions, protocols, decisions,
 directives." Three major reasons motivated this update
 and an expansion of its scope. First, African countries are
 increasingly cooperating, especially in the area of
 corridors, to achieve full connectivity, mobility and
 accessibility. To that end, they are concluding new
 agreements and conventions. Second, this new edition has
 been extended to the whole of the African continent,
 including the Maghreb, which was not in the previous
 inventory. Third, air transport and associated agreements
 and conventions were added at the request of countries.
 Indeed, the future of air transport in Africa is bright. It
 is likely that it becomes an affordable mode of transport to
 reach remote areas.