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Buying from Africa for Africa. (ITC News).(development and disaster relief efforts in...

Publication: International Trade Forum
Date: Tuesday, January 1 2002

International aid agencies including United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) spend large amounts on procuring goods and services for development and disaster relief operations. Most of this aid goes to Africa, but supplies for it rarely come from African sellers.

ITC is working to change this situation. From 27 to 30 November 2001, it organized a buyers-sellers meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, for eastern and southern Africa with the goal of increasing Africa's participation in development aid procurement. During the meeting, buyers from internation

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