To engage leading research and policy analysis organizations and institutions in Africa and Latin America in information and knowledge-sharing and exchange arrangements with a view to strengthening the capacity of the African policy community to render more informed policy advice at the country and regional levels in thematic areas relevant to meeting key millennium development goals. The project will focus on the areas of the open regionalism concept in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules: private or public/private sector partnerships in the provision of social and infrastructure services; and engaging the vast pool of highly skilled human resources in the Diaspora in the provision of technical and advisory services and in the private sector investment in their countries of origin