Making Africa Trade Easy (MATE) FAIR 2019

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 2

• Making Africa Trade Easy (MATE) FAIR 2019 is a collaboration between USAID and Believe in Africa to “Strengthen ties with one of the world’s most dynamic and fastest-growing regions” and to “advance the U.S’s focus on trade and investment in Africa, and highlight America’s commitment to Africa’s security, its democratic development, and its people.”
• MATE is also a platform to facilitate African regional integration and intra-Africa trade;
• Additionally, MATE will:
  • Showcase positive dynamics at work on the continent and throughout the African Diaspora;
  • Strengthen changing perceptions and the new narrative effectively "Rebranding Africa";
  • Highlight leaders and "game changers" who are building effective growth models for Africa;
  • Discuss successful examples of turning informal sector ingenuity into real formal growth;
  • Develop innovative solutions, new technologies and capacity building.