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May
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Advancing the African Union Decade of Acceleration: Leveraging the Joint AU-G20 Collaboration on Health to Strengthen Health Products Manufacturing in Africa | Seventy-Seventh World Health Assembly
Switzerland
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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29
Feb
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2024-02-29 02:00:00
2024-03-01 02:00:00
9th Africa Day of School Feeding
Burundi
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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14
Feb
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2024-02-14 02:00:00
2024-02-18 02:00:00
AUDA-NEPAD at the 37th Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union
Discover AUDA-NEPAD's activities at the 37th Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union by clicking on the dates.
13 February 2024
The 39th Session of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee | 14:00 – 16:00 | AUC HQ
AUDA-NEPAD Strategic Partners Dinner | 19:00 – 19:00 | Sheraton Hotel
14-15 February 2024
Showcasing innovative practice in TVET | The Capitol Hotel, Addis Ababa
16 February 2024
Operationalising the African Medicines Agency (AMA) and Securing a Future for Africa Free of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDS) | 08:00 – 09:00 | Sheraton Hotel [DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME]
High-level Nutrition event: “Achieving Nutrition Goals in Africa Post-Malabo: Public and Private Sector Sustainable Nutrition Financing | 09:00 – 12:00 | Inter Luxury
TICAD's Achievements in 30 Years and the Prospects for Africa's Development | 10:00-12:00 (EAT) | Kaizen Excellence Center | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Pre- launch of the AU theme for 2024 on Education | 16:00 – 17:00 | AUC HQ
17-18 February 2024
Launch of World Skills Africa | AUC HQ
Launch of the Second Ten Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063 (2024-2033) | AUC HQ
37th Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union | AUC HQ
19 February 2024
New Zealand/AUDA-NEPAD Grant Agreement signing towards the support the Home Grown Solutions Accelerator for Agro-Industry | Radisson Blu
Ethiopia
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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02
Feb
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2024-02-03 02:00:00
Kigali High-Level Health Financing Conference
Rwanda
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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10
Jan
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2024-01-12 02:00:00
AUDA-NEPAD Africa Policy Bridge Tank 2024 Inception Conference: African Futures
Introduction
AUDA-NEPAD’s Policy Bridge Tank Programme (APBT) aims to engage African Think Tanks to identify and address continental and regional challenges through evidence-based policy and knowledge services. Its main objective is to help translate socio-economic research output and connect knowledge to decision-making to build a solid and interlinked African-driven and evidence-based development programming.
As part of its flagship events, the APBT is holding its first Annual Conference on the theme on African Futures. This year the conference will be held in Addis Ababa from the 10th to the 12th of January 2024 and will be hosted by AUDA-NEPAD Policy Bridge Tank in collaboration with the African Futures & Innovation (AFI) program at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS).
The event will focus on providing foresight evidence on Africa’s development prospects that is backed by rigorous research stemming from African think tanks. The conference will draw on the contribution from African think tanks/research centrers, the AU Commission, Africa’s eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Member States, the diplomatic community and international organisations in Addis Ababa. The in-person conference will bring together experts, academics, policy-makers and practitioners to engage, partake and provide experiences and evidence on Africa’s long-term development prospects.
The conference will be conducted over two days from 10 to 11 January 2024, followed by a one day, 12th January, foresight training workshop on the African Futures website and the International Futures (IFs) forecasting platform. The conference and training will be for in-person attendance only and simultaneous translation will be available.
Goal and Objective of the conference
The conference seeks to bring together representatives from the diplomatic community, the various Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the African Union system, Member States and experts from academia and policy think tanks active across the African continent. Given unfolding foresight evidence, the conference aims to share expertise and insights on Africa’s long-term development future.
The aim of the conference is to support a structured mobilisation of African think tanks towards the successful implementation of Agenda 2063 through an exchange of innovations in ideas and action. The APBT workshops will inform African governments and regional institutions on application of evidence to public policy with the aim of promoting Africa’s development priorities across the continent.
Over time it is expected that the work done through the African Futures website and the conference in Addis Ababa will result in stronger, more effective development programming and policy-making capacity, a greater familiarity and reliance on data as well as an understanding of the importance of synergies and greater levels of collaboration to reach the outcomes of the Agenda 2063.
This training workshop scheduled on the 12th January 2024, is by invitation only and a limited number of travel grants will be offered to participating experts and representatives of African institutions and Regional Economic Communities. The organisers will cover the participation of APBT TAG think tank members, AUDA-NEPAD staff and RECs with other in-person participation occurring on a self-funding basis.
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Preparatory dialogues
AUDA-NEPAD has partnered with AFI to forecast Africa’s development prospects. The African Futures website reflects a unique effort to model and forecast Africa’s development potential using the International Futures forecasting platformhosted and developed by the Frederick S Pardee Center for International Futures at the University of Denver.
Over the past three months, the two organisations in partnership, hosted a series of eight ‘Erudite’ seminars that unpacked the foresight analysis and evidence provided on the African Futures website. This eight-part series dealt with various themes such as demographics, education, agriculture, manufacturing, the AFCfTA, large infrastructure and leapfrogging, financial flows and governance. The full list of seminars and access to the various documents are summarised below.
- Demographics: Africa’s population future and the impact of a more rapid demographic transition and investments in health on development outcomes [Link to recording] | Download the full report or interact with the results here
- Agriculture: Can Africa be food secure by 2043? Africa’s agriculture futures and the impact of a green revolution [Link to recording] | Read the full Agriculture report here or interact with the results here
- Free Trade: The African Continental Free Trade Area presents a unique opportunity to create an integrated, continent-wide market, a vital step towards building the ‘Africa we want.’ [Link to recording] | Read the full AfCFTA report here.
- Education: Lifting all boats: the effect of better quality and more education on Africa’s development. [Link to recording] | Read the full Education report here.
- Manufacturing: The importance and impact of policies to industrialise Africa. [Link to recording] | Read the full Manufacturing report here.
- Leapfrogging and infrastructure: The impact of leapfrogging and large infrastructure build on Africa’s development potential. [Link to recording] | Read the full Leapfrogging report here. Read the Large Infrastructure report here.
- Governance: How could better governance improve development outcomes? [Link to recording] | Interact with the results here.
- Financial flows: Inward financial flows including aid, remittances and investment have the potential to improve Africa’s development prospects. [Link to recording] | Read the full Financial Flows report here.
The various webinars also presented the impact that ambitious policies might have for Africa’s long-term future in each of these sectors. This eight-part seminar series serves as input into the conference. Substantively the conference will start by showcasing the culmination of the sectoral work presented in the seminar series, consisting of a presentation and review of Africa's development prospects and potential, serving as the keynote and introduction to the event. Thereafter the conference will take the form of parallel working sessions, drawing on the expertise of various African based Think Tanks and Regional Economic Communities. The conference will be followed by a day-long training workshop in which representatives from the various RECs will have the opportunity to engage with the African Futures website and the modelling platform in more detail.
For more information contact:
Pamla Gopaul, AUDA-NEPAD, PamlaG@nepad.org
Alize le Roux, AFI-ISS, aleroux@issafrica.org
Ethiopia
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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05
Dec
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6th Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa (SCoMRA VI)
The conference will provide a forum to share scientific advances and current best practices in regulatory science disciplines with the aim to strengthen the regulatory system , improve access to affordable essential medical products, vaccines and technologies, and catalyse local production of medical products in Africa. Participants will also deliberate on actions for sustaining the momentum for regulatory systems strengthening and harmonisation in Africa.
The theme of the sixth SCoMRA builds on the outcomes of the first to the fifth Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa jointly organized by the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The scientific conference will bring together more than 300 participants from African National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), policymakers, academia, scientific community, private sector, civil society and development partners in health and pharmaceutical sectors.
The Sixth Biennial SCoMRA will specifically achieve the following objectives:
- Provide a forum to share scientific advances and current best practices in the regulatory science disciplines amongst regulators, industry, scientists, academia and policymakers.
- Share progress in regional and continental harmonisation and the advancement of Africa’s regulatory ecosystems in the era of the African Medicines Agency (AMA).
- Identify actions towards the creation of an enabling environment for local production of medical products and technologies through regulatory systems strengthening and harmonisation.
- Facilitate collaboration and networking among stakeholders, including regulators, policymakers, academia, the scientific community, the private sector, and civil society.
- Identify best practices and models of linking regulation to local production, pooled procurement and entire value chain.
The conference will be structured in the following sub-themes:
Theme I: Substandard & falsified medicines: what is Africa doing to combat the scourge?
Theme II: The future of medical products regulation and harmonisation in the AMA era
Theme III: Advancing local production of medical products for Africa through the creation of an enabling regulatory environment
Theme IV: Linking regulation to local manufacturing and procurement
Theme V: Digitalization for advancing regulation of medical products in Africa.
Egypt
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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24
Nov
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Pre-Conference Event – Kigali High-Level Health Conference
1S2Strengthening Coordination and Accelerating Implementation of ALM with a focus on Private Sector Engagement in Health and Health Financing.
As a build up to the Kigali High-level Health Financing Conference. The Lusaka Pre-Conference event is a meeting convened by AUDA-NEPAD in collaboration with the African Union Commission and other partners to review progress and strengthen the coordination and implementation of the African Leadership Meeting (ALM) declaration on "Investing in Health." This declaration, adopted in February 2019, aims to increase domestic health financing in Africa to strengthen health systems and achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
The ALM declaration focuses on various commitments, including increasing domestic investment in health, convening meetings between African Ministers of Finance and Health, establishing regional health financing hubs, attracting private capital into the health sector, improving public financial management, and digitizing the Africa Scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health. The event will assess progress in implementing these commitments.
Key achievements highlighted include the development and piloting of a tracker to monitor the components of the ALM, digitization of the Africa Scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health, validation of a strategic framework for private sector engagement in health, and the establishment of Regional Health Financing Hubs in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and East African Community (EAC) regions.
The meeting's objectives include sharing best practices and lessons learned, outlining a comprehensive private sector and health financing engagement process, improving coordination of private sector investment in health, and identifying priority actions (quick wins) for health financing and private sector engagement in 2024. The outcomes of this conference will inform broader discussions at the Kigali health financing and investment conference scheduled for February 2024.
Rwanda
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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22
Nov
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2023-11-22 02:00:00
Side Event at the 10th Roundtable on Financing Water in Africa
The session title 'Towards the launch of the High-Level Panel Investment Action Plan: enhancing financing for national, and transboundary water projects under the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa’
The Organization for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) will co-convene the 10th Roundtable on Financing Water from 22 – 23 November in Abidjan, in partnership with the government of the Netherlands, the World Water Council, and the World Bank. The Roundtable meeting is part of the international agenda on water and contributes to the debate on financing global public goods.
The 2023 Roundtable will focus on promoting a regional perspective on financing water challenges and opportunities; engaging public and private actors, in particular financial institutions and investors on solutions to scale up investments for water in Africa; engaging water-intensive sectors (such as agriculture, energy, urban development) so that they better measure and mitigate their impact on water resources and explore practical ways to deliver on commitments made at the UN 2023 Water Conference.
AUDA-NEPAD, in collaboration with its partners, will hold a side event entitled ‘Towards the launch of the High-Level Panel Investment Action Plan: enhancing financing for national, and transboundary water projects under the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa’. AUDA -NEPAD will shine a spotlight on the PIDA Water Portfolio and its enormous untapped investment potential. Be a part of the conversation that will shape the future of economic development in Africa.
Online participation is available on: https://afdb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TAYgu3XTQVu3XAKsGIxVww#/registration
Time: 16:30 – 18:00 hours, Abidjan time.
Côte d’Ivoire
dijithadt@assyst.in
Africa/Johannesburg
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