5th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum (webinar)

The 5th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum focuses on Recovery, Resilience and Sustainability: African Diaspora Agrofood Entrepreneurship in a changing world and will take place on 17th and 19th of September.
A virtual conference will be held via Zoom on Friday 17th September, 10:00 – 16:30 (CEST). Development experts, policy makers, financial experts and African diaspora entrepreneurs will discuss the role and potentials of the African diasporas in the agrofood sector. You can register to the conference hereunder.
Africa-EU relations: Africa’s employment challenges (webinar)

Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 16:00- 17:30 (via Zoom)
The poverty and employment crises on the African continent are accelerating to a worrying extent. The Covid-19 pandemic further highlights how fragile the situation is for most people in sub-Saharan Africa. Proposals to help eradicate both crises through growth, improving business environments or increasing foreign direct investment are numerous. However, many proposals and existing policies – also promoted by the EU - do not live up to the expected impact. High growth does not go hand in hand with more and better jobs and neither does it cause the expected easing in the labour markets. Thus, job opportunities are continuously lacking and, consequently, social challenges are on the rise.
Pitch Session | The Nest - One Year Anniversary - 22 April 2021(online event)

Powered by Untapped, The Nest is a monthly event series taking place both in-person and online, where startups and entrepreneurs in emerging markets pitch to angel investors around the world.
In this third edition of Invest Africa x Untapped Global’s The Nest, we’ll be celebrating The Nest’s one year anniversary. On April 22nd, join us online and offline in select cities to watch two African startups pitch to a group of international angel investors for funding, feedback and global recognition.
Meet the Founders:
- Derrick Ashong, CEO and Founder of AMP Global. AMP Global is a Nigerian startup revolutionizing the Telecom and Media industries by empowering fans to earn mobile data for discovering and amplifying great content.
- Oumar Basse, CEO and Founder of Yobanté Express. Yobanté Express is a Senegalese marketplace connecting local couriers with local commerce to optimize domestic, cross-border and last-mile delivery in emerging markets.
Getting your business Investor Ready – Insights from funders of businesses and deals in Africa - 21 April 2021 (online event)

USAID TradeHub and Neu Capital Africa, in collaboration with Invest Africa, invites you to the second in a two-part series, looking at strengthening the ties between Southern Africa and global investors.
In this session, our panel of experts will offer delegates key insights and advice on how to prepare your business for investment in Africa, with focus on growth strategies, addressing ESG issues and the importance of proper governance structures.
Invest Africa is partner of the event.
2021 Annual AVCA Conference: Resilience, Resurgence and Results - 20-23 April 2021 (online event)

The Annual AVCA Conference returns virtually, bringing together world-class investors, policymakers and business leaders for interactive sessions, solutions-driven dialogue and dynamic networking. This year, AVCA is celebrating 20 years of pioneering industry research, advocacy and promoting private investment in Africa.
With ongoing global efforts towards robust economic recovery, there is no better time to rethink the role of private investment in Africa’s pathway to long-term growth.
Conversations at the conference will go beyond the surface with deep-dive sessions on the trends driving investment on the continent, from gender-smart investing and ESG to international trade policy and technology adoption. Our speakers will also share best practices for fundraising and fund structuring to accelerate capital inflow to Africa.
Over four days, AVCA will showcase investor success stories and innovation from leading entrepreneurs across key sectors, including agriculture, hospitality, healthcare and infrastructure.
Trade Finance in Africa Survey 2021 Launch - 15 April 2021 (online event)

Launch of the Continental Survey Report:
Impact of COVID-19 on African Trade Finance
Trade finance is the lifeblood of commerce. During the last financial crisis in 2008/09, credit lines dried up for many emerging markets. The Covid-19 pandemic has unarguably had a much greater global economic toll. In April 2020, month on month global trade contracted by 12.1%.
In the first survey of its kind, Afreximbank, alongside a number of strategic partners, conducted the first continent wide Trade Finance Survey, to better understand where Africa stands and the impact on the banking sector of the pandemic downturn. What can banks and African governments do, in a synchronised fashion, to accelerate both trade and growth in the post-containment phase of the pandemic?
High-Level EU-Africa Green Investment Forum - 23 April 2021 (online event)

Africa’s green future: new investment pathways towards sustainable, inclusive development
This high level online forum will bring leading government and business figures, international and development financial institutions, and academia together, and get the perspectives of both the public and private sectors on sustainable development and green investment in Africa. We will share experiences, innovative approaches and opportunities to mobilise private and public capital towards the Green Transition in Africa, as well as showcasing how green and sustainable business models are profitable, create jobs and generate wealth while contributing to achieving the world’s climate objectives.
Topics covered will include the role of the European Union and its Member States in curbing climate change across the world, with a focus on Africa; how international financial institutions are responding to this challenge through targeted, innovative instruments and enhanced outreach; and how private sector models are changing to become greener and more sustainable.
Leveraging Public Private Partnerships for Vaccine Acquisition and Delivery in Africa - 13 & 14 April 2021 (online event)

CCA will host a two-part webinar series -- Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships for Vaccine Acquisition and Delivery in Africa -- on April 13 and 14 that will highlight the role of public-private partnership in closing the vaccine financing gap and tackling the logistics and infrastructure challenges related to vaccine delivery and inoculations in Africa.
The webinar series will showcase key vaccine financing schemes on the continent as well as technologies and leading solutions that the U.S. and African public and private sectors can launch to facilitate an efficient delivery and inoculation of vaccine doses on the continent.
Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) is drawing on two of its platforms – its Africa Finance Forum (annually held on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF spring meetings) and its newly launched U.S.-Africa Health Security and Resilience Initiative—to convene key stakeholders to discuss strategic collaboration on vaccine delivery in Africa and, thus, a path to economic recovery on the continent.
Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021: Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs - 25 March 2021 (online event)

Welcome by Stefan Liebing, Chairman, German-African Business Association, followed by presentations of the Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 report by Jean-Denis Gabikini, Acting Director of Directorate of Economic Development, Integration and Trade of the Department of Economic Development, Trade, Industry and Mining – AUC, and Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development. The ensuing discussion with H.E. Igor Cesar, Ambassador of Rwanda to Germany, Stefan Oswald, Director for Africa, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Gregor Wolf, Member of the Executive Board, Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA) will be moderated by Nicola Brandt, Head of the OECD Berlin Centre.
African Development Bank Group 2021 Business Opportunities Seminar - 6-7 April 2021 (online event)

The Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Department (FIRM) of the African Development Bank will hold its first virtual Business Opportunities Seminar (BOS) for 2021 over two days in April in order to accommodate participants in different time zones.
The webinar will offer individual and consulting firms, civil contractors, manufacturers and commercial attachés from the Bank Group’s regional and non-regional members an opportunity to learn more about how to become Bank suppliers or partners.
Specifically, the sessions will provide an overview of Bank Group policies and operations; procurement rules and procedures; and ongoing and future country activities. The webinar will also feature Business-to-Business meetings with key Bank Group departments.
Interpretation services will be provided in English and French.