Trust is Trade: Standards as Africa's Strategic Infrastructure
The flagship report, developed with UNIDO, sets out a reform agenda to 2030 for standards, mutual recognition and conformity systems across Africa.
Standards have become the currency of trust in trade. For African exporters, the cost of meeting quality and standards rules now exceeds the tariffs those rules were meant to replace. This report sets out how African governments can shape the terms on which African trade will be judged.