{"id":57538,"date":"2015-11-12T23:44:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2015\/11\/programme-for-infrastructure-development-in-africa-pida\/"},"modified":"2015-11-12T23:44:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:44:57","slug":"programme-for-infrastructure-development-in-africa-pida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/programme-for-infrastructure-development-in-africa-pida\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n                                                    ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 12, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media Advisory<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>What: 1st PIDA Week<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opportunities for media will include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A media briefing session on the 13th November 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visit to a PIDA site on 14th November 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Attendance at all open sessions of the meeting<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Possible interviews with the drivers of infrastructure in Africa<\/p>\n<p>A media conference on the closing day of the meeting on 18th November 2015<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Theme: \u201cAccelerating Infrastructure Implementation for Africa\u2019s Integration\u201d<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Who: African Union Commission in partnership with the NEPAD Agency and the African Development Bank<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>When: 13th-17th November 2015<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Where: AfDB Headquarters<\/p>\n<p>CCIA Building<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Avenue Jean Paul II<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Abidjan Plateau, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Objectives:- \u00a0PIDA week will help create synergies among the different PIDA related meetings such as the Steering Committee, the Council for Infrastructure Development , the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa meetings, the NEPAD IPPF meeting, the Continental Business Network meeting etc. that have so far been organized separately,<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Background: PIDA is a continental initiative aimed at addressing the infrastructure deficit that is severely hampering Africa\u2019s competitiveness in the world market. It provides a common framework for African stakeholders to build the infrastructure necessary to increase intra-African trade and thus boost socio-economic development in the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 12, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Media Advisory What: 1st PIDA Week \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opportunities for media will include: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A media briefing session on the 13th November 2015 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A visit to a PIDA site on 14th November 2015 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Attendance at all open sessions of the meeting \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Possible interviews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-57538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}