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The proposals of the report "Reviving the French economic presence in Afrique : the urgency of a
long
Afrique : the urgency of a long-term collective ambition"
Former Minister Hervé GAYMARD, civil administrator, president (LR) of the departmental council and former
MP de spa Savoie, presented a report entitled "Reviving the French economic presence: the urgency
of a long-term collective ambition" in which he proposes de passer de the notion of "aid to the
development" to that of "investments for development" (see BQ of 26/07/2019).
Below we present all the proposals in the report.
1/ Conduct an annual exercise de quantification and de communication around de the contribution of companies
French to the development of the African continent.
2/ Initiate a dialogue de high level between France and Germany in order to de search for points of interest
common (bilateral and multilateral) economic matters on the African continent.
3/ Encourage the acquisition of experiences on the African continent de young graduates with high potential, in
particular by experiences de several months during the graduate programs of companies, and via
modules specific to IHEDN, ENA, as well as other institutions.
4/ Formalize the organization de annual horizon circles State (and operators) / companies present in
Afrique, for each of the main companies located on the continent, but also for those of which
the expansion is the fastest.
5/ Further train public managers on the African continent in the knowledge de l'offre
French, as well as the tools and issues de the accompaniment of companies, in order to de to play
fully a role of business provider. In particular, test a session de training as de games
de rôle lors de the next ambassadors' conference.
6/ Recall that AFD is an operator de the foreign policy de the State, which must therefore also participate
in the service of national interests, particularly in economic matters, within the limits de his aid mandate
Untied. Translate this reminder into practice: promote recruitment de profiles with experience in
company; formalize and systematize consultation with private sector representatives in formulation
country and sector strategies; ensure that the local management of AFD agencies is correctly
provided by the Embassy in line with the already existing regulatory framework (and where applicable with the
economic services, with, in particular, the regular transmission de data on returns for
French companies, and not just as regards the French companies applying); strengthen
circulation de the sector information available to AFD; and strengthen the information of public actors as well as
than French companies on projects (restricted distribution de project sheets, and information
updated on their calendar).
7/ Prioritize, in terms of support for the African private sector, an official communication highlighting the
results (number of jobs already created, enterprises supported, if necessary over a long period) rather
than just ads.
8/ Conduct, by 2022, an evaluation de the implementation of the one-stop shop in the regions, and more broadly
of the new state de the French ecosystem of French support for the internationalization of companies.
9/ Identify, with the support of the CNCCEF, French companies in Afrique make the subject de difficultés de
transmission, and direct their leaders to de young French entrepreneurs, if applicable from de la
diaspora.
10/ Create and perpetuate an AFD Lab, in order to encourage, via interventions de low amount, training
de innovative economic models in the continuity of the activities of French companies, as well as
their actions in favor de the ecosystem on the African continent.
11/ Ensure that the digital platform of the actors de the accompaniment is a platform,
open to private actors, and not yet another website.
12/ Explore how embassy staff can be associated with the solution de CRM de la Team
France Export.
13/ Establish, each semester, plans de displacements en région de la Team France Export, in order to de faire
learn more about all public instruments de financement (including from the AFD group), and y
associating private actors de l'accompagnement.
14/ Conduct, under the aegis de DG Treasury, a study examining the training cycles of the different tools
public de financing, so de favor their articulation.
15/ Organize, every year and in each region, a day and a contest 'Afrique', specifically
oriented towards mid-caps and SMEs already experienced in export. A few companies would be selected in
each region for a support program de 12 to 36 months.
16/ In terms of public credit insurance, and vis-à-vis African countries for which exposure
French public financial is already important, to take stock of the existing simplified rules for the
guaranteede projects carried out by SMEs and midde priorisation en
Commission on guarantees for projects carried out by SMEs and mid-caps.
17/ Consider a relaxation of the conditions de princil for private buyers
africans.
18/ Consider, with regard de transactions oriented towards the African continent, the enlargement de the plate
likely de be taken as collateral, de a similar way to what already exists in some
strategic sectors.
19/ Create a group de travail, under the aegis de DG Treasury, in order to consider increased involvement of
private insurers in matters de guarantees, for example to de develop mechanisms de blending.
Consider the transfer de portefeuilles de loans de AFD to multilateral or European actors (EIB).
20/ By the end de 2019, a new agreement between the AFD group and
Bpifrance, around at least four series class="fontstyle2">de themes (joint work in French regions, work
common on the African continent, increased coordination vis-à-vis sovereign buyers, communication
common vis-à-vis companies on the different tools).
21/ Recapitalise de PROPARCO, to ensure increased involvement of private actors.
22/ Give PROPARCO the means for a more experimental approach, via more de resources en
grant, and more de substence in recruitment and human resources management.
23/ Experiment, for a period de two to three years and in some key countries (especially in Afrique
de l'Est), various public assembly formulas, from project teams mixing agents de DG Trésor,
de Bpifrance et deBusiness France.
24/ Formalize an alert network by identifying correspondents within the main institutions
French public and private in each African country. Perpetuate, where and when it is useful,
mechanisms de national and public-private dialogue, on the model de what exists in some countries
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25/ Promote the development de bases de data fed in real time about practices
of companies de country to the European Union, in order to de before a dialogue with local authorities as well as
that the lessors de fonds.
26/ Ensure, in the most strategic countries and sectors, a capacity for direct public action in
economic intelligence material, so de repont to possible cases de conpetition déloyale.
27/ Extend, modulate, better finance (in connection with AFD) and evaluate the system de creationde centres
of excellence de technical training on the African continent.
28/ Give priority to support for creation by companies < de companative training<span class="fontstyle2">de models
economic de training viable and defined from needs.
29/ Create a system de bourses d'excellence, financed by companies, with about a thousand scholarships per
an, seeking a balance between Afrique francophone and non-francophone, and a broad association of
former African students of the schools concerned. At the end de their course, young people would be encouraged
to return to the African continent and join the subsidiaries of French companies located there.
30 / Repositioning France as a destination of excellence for young Africans in the ><
scientific and technical fields and give, without necessarily making an announcement on this subject, an objective
quantified by forming directly or indirectly through partnerships with local institutions, 30<000br />
engineers, scientists and technicians by 2030.
31/ Encourage de proactively french companies most present on the African continent
as well as NGOs to enter into constructive partnerships, with the objective de two first partnerships by
one year.
32/ Promote a reorientation de the Compact with Africa (CwA) initiative towards the fight against corruption and
the improvement of law and de the business environment, under the aegis de oECD.
33/ Launch, within the framework of the G7, an initiative for transparency in major public procurement,
similar to the EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative).
34/ Finance, via AFD, a study aimed at documenting and quantifying interest,
in the main sectors
for donors de fonds as for partner countries, with a best
the lowest bidder in tenders.
35/ Initiate a work de fond, under the aegis de f'AFD and Expertise France, in favor de the formation and de la
dissemination de financial information on the African continent, in connection with French private actors
concerned.
36/ Organize a specific financial event on the sidelines of the summit Afrique-France de 2020 in order to
to involve more French private actors.
37/ Experiment with the creation of a refundable advance mechanism, in order to de favor the creation de fonds
de French capital in countries or sectors for which the involvement of private actors
remains low.
38/ Experiment, in the alternative, with a mechanism de signerior of the first losses in order to reach the
same objectives.
39/ Launch a French program to support the creation de fonds de garantie locales pour contribute au
financing de TPE-African SMEs, combining technical expertise and financing by the AFD group.
40/ Create a group de work under the aegis de DG Trésor in view de the production of documentation
standard to de facilitate blending between public and private tools.
41/ Create a 'syndication' desk at PROPARCO, in order to de favor the effect de levier of public instruments.
42 / Consider not connecting <span class="fontstyle2">de helps, but its repackaging: working at the level of oECD at
a <span class="fontstyle2">de any official support to requirements de examplepartnership,
beyond the distinction between export support and development aid.
43/ Build and promote at the level de the OECD a principle de double reciprocity: reciprocity in access
financial support between < Statesspan class="fontstyle2">de the OECD and reciprocity vis-à-vis third countries.
44/ Consider, during the 2020s, a replication of the Trademark East Africa project in Afrique de
West.
45/ Create, in a logic of investment for the development of African markets, a box to
specific French tools for the agricultural and agro-industrial sector, in connection with the private sector.
46/ Better link afd with the sectoral expertise of other public operators. In particular,
consider pilot projects with Beicip-Franlab and IFP Training (subsidiaries of IFP Energies Nouvelles), par
example in Mozambique.
47/ Strongly support (politically, financially and technically) the deepening de OHADA
(by three series de schantiers: normative, de coordination, in training and access to law), as well as its
geographical enlargement.
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