About

The Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) was launched on April 16, 2008 as a new continent-wide competence and action centre for innovation and cluster based competitiveness initiatives for national and regional economic development in Africa.

The launch of PACF took place at the end of its first and very successful conference in Addis Ababa, April 14-16, 2008. The Conference was organized and sponsored by the African Union (AU) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) in collaboration with The Competitiveness Institute (TCI).

It was attended by 110 people drawn from business, knowledge institutions, non-government, and government agencies and organizations from 22 African and 10 other countries.

Main Objectives
	To stimulate Africa’s competitiveness through enhanced innovation and cluster based competitiveness initiatives.
	To facilitate mainstreaming of innovation and cluster-based competitiveness initiatives in national, regional and continental business development policies, strategies and programmes.
	To promote continental and global collaboration and partnerships in the development of Cluster Initiatives.
	To provide a platform for knowledge sharing and the building up and expansion of the knowledge base on clusters and cluster based development initiatives in Africa.