About TICAD

The TICAD Ministerial Meeting is to be held from the 24 to the 25 of August 2017 and will be preceded by a Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) which shall take place on the 23rd of August at the Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre in Maputo. Japan launched the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in 1993 in order to refocus international attention on the importance and urgency of African development issues as well as to promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners.