Everything you need to know about FOCAC: Sustainable Development

We are continuing to discuss the Sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) for the rest of the month. FOCAC will be held in three weeks, December 4-5 in Johannesburg, South Africa. For historical context, FOCAC was initiated in 2000 in Beijing in order to sketch out a three-year cooperation plan between China and the countries of Africa. Since then, the triennial meetings have alternated between China and an African country. This week, hosts Winslow Robertson and Ms. Lina Benabdallah hope to discuss how how FOCAC will engage with sustainable development and have three guests from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kenya, WWF China, and WWF South Africa respectively to explore the linkages between FOCAC and sustainable development: Jackson Kiplagat is the Interim Policy & Research Lead - Africa for WWF Kenya, Nan Li is Policy Program Manager for China's Green Shift Initiative at WWF China; and Louise Scholtz is Manager: Special Projects: Policy Futures Unit of WWF South Africa. In addition, WWF South Africa recently put up a FOCAC website that is well worth exploring.

Recommendations

• Winslow
• Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa - 2014 by The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa
•  Lina
• 58th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Jackson Kiplagat
• Personally contribute toward improving sustainability 
• Nan Li
• Africa Surprising - Signs of Change by BBC
• Louise Scholtz
• The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa by Deborah Brautigam

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