ETTG/ECDPM MFF workshop: Programming the NDICI in a post-COVID era - 8 December 2020 (online event)
On 8 December, 16:00-17:30 CET, ECDPM and ETTG are organising the workshop ‘Programming the NDICI in a post-COVID era’. The main objective of the event is to take stock of the progress made with regard to the negotiations of the NDICI and outstanding issues to be solved, as well as to discuss key principles for the programming of the instrument for the period 2021-2027. We would like to use this as an opportunity to facilitate an open discussion between representatives of the EU institutions, think tanks and civil society organisations.
Potsdam Winter Dialogues 2020: Building sustainability into African free trade - 14/ 15 December 2020 ( online event)
On Tuesday 15th December, ECDPM’s Sean Woolfrey will participate in the roundtable discussion on ‘The African Free Trade Area and the Role of External Partners’ during Potsdam Winter Dialogues 2020.
African and European experts from government, business, academia and civil society will join in the discussions at the two-day international conference, with a particular focus on the following:
• How can the African Continental Free Trade Area help to strengthen recovery and build more economic resilience in Africa?
• What can be done to create a coherent African continental trade regime that benefits as many countries and communities as possible?
• Which specific policy measures and regulatory strategies can avert negative impacts, e.g. on employment and food security, in lower-income countries?
• How can international partners, meaning the EU first and foremost, facilitate and support these efforts?
Tech-Skills for Sustainable Water Management and Youth Employment in Africa - 8 December 2020 (online event)
WTO to host first Trade for Peace Week - 30 November to 4 December 2020 (online event)
The WTO will host the first edition of the Trade for Peace Week from 30 November to 4 December 2020. Ten virtual panel sessions will explore the nexus between trade and peace, with the focus on fragile and conflict-affected countries in accession which want to use trade and economic integration to promote sustainable and inclusive peace.
In announcing the Trade for Peace Week, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff noted: “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes international trade as an engine for inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction that contributes to the promotion of sustainable development. This in turn can facilitate building and maintaining peace. The connection between trade and peace is the raison d'être for the creation of the rules-based multilateral trading system that led to economic recovery and prosperity after the devastation from World War II.”
Tour de France pour l'entrepreneuriat de la diversité et des diasporas - 17 décembre 2020 (online event)
Après les événements de Bordeaux, Lyon et Marseille, le Conseil Présidentiel pour l'Afrique vous invite à sa 4ème conférence-débat sur l’entrepreneuriat de la diversité et des diasporas. Cette édition permettra de présenter les recommandations qui seront remises à l’Élysée pour soutenir les entrepreneurs.
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Africa Knows! It is time to decolonise minds - 2-4 December 2020 ( online event)
Online conference starting with special opening event on 2-4 December2020. Closing activity of the 2020 Year of Leiden African Studies Assembly
In recent years, Africa’s universities, research institutions and other knowledge agencies have undergone tremendous change. Growing demand for scientific forms of knowledge and for higher education has pushed many of them to expand rapidly and to show a combination of daring initiatives and institutional, scientific, and educational creativity. New knowledge organizations have also been established, for example, with ties to religious groups or to the private sector. ‘Decolonizing the academy’ has become a strong call within and outside the continent. Eurocentrism is increasingly questioned, while calls for ‘looking East’ and ‘looking inside Africa’ are gaining momentum.
Global partnership for African development Virtual Forum 27 & 28 November 2020 (Online event)
About The Event
G-PAD 2020: WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
Africa has the world’s largest population of young people. By 2030, 20% of the global labour force and approximately 33% of the global youth labour force, are projected to come from Africa. Whereas about 12 million young Africans enter the labour market every year, only 3 million jobs are created in the formal sector. The informal sector provides 85.8% of the total African employment, which absorbs 95% of the youth. The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a hard blow on the African economy as it has done in other parts of the world. Reports show that this trend is set to worsen as in the first months of the crisis, the income of workers in Africa's informal sector dropped by 81%.
UK-Kenya Global Health Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems - 02 December 2020 ( Hybrid event)
In many ways, UK's National Health Service (NHS), private health care organisations, Pharmaceutical Companies, Royal Medical Colleges, MedTech Start-ups and SMEs engaged in the healthcare global supply chains, are the envy of many countries globally. Subsequent to various initiatives, Britain continues to offer structural support aimed at enhancing the resilience of healthcare systems globally.
Inaugural to the Annual Africa Health Summit to be held between 8-11 June 2021 at the Royal College of General Practitioners, Euston, London, and in partnership with the Kenyan Government, UK's Department For International Trade (DIT), UK Export Finance (UKEF) and Health Education England (HEE), we are are delighted to invite you to the "UK-Kenya Global Health Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems".
This Symposium on Health will showcase UK's role and initiatives in Global Health, particularly Kenya, as well as provide a unique opportunity for UK and Kenyan counterparts to share best practices, address some of the most critical healthcare needs and challenges, and to learn more about growing avenues of partnerships and investments in the healthcare space both in UK and Kenya.
Quality & Standards in the context of post-Covid recovery of African economies - 19 november 2020 (online event)
Our world is currently being shaped by significant changes, from the global COVID-19 pandemic to the recent digital transformations in the context of Industry 4.0. Africa and its major value chains will also need to adapt to the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area. In order to mitigate their effects and ensure they lead to sustainable and inclusive development, quality and standards are more than ever needed.
Besides the negative consequences of COVID-19, the main economic challenges in many African countries include limited competitiveness of enterprises and the need for better value-chain integration at regional and national levels in order to scale-up sustainable structural transformation. To compete in export markets, African countries need to work towards increasing the volume and range of the products they sell and export while complying with the increasingly stringent market requirements on product quality, safety, health and environmental impact. Standardization along the value chain enables reduction in production and transaction costs, increased quality and market opportunities, competitive positioning and an improved management of risks.
“Debating Africa-EU” series - Sustainable jobs & growth: a Partnership for A New Era - 19 november 2020 (online event)
As Africa and Europe seek to re-set their partnership, Friends of Europe is engaging with our partners across both continents to understand the long-term vision and the converging and diverging priorities at the heart of this new cooperation.
Africa and Europe have a shared interest and much to gain from one another in accelerating the progress of the global agenda for sustainable development, whilst working together to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through its “Debating Africa-EU” series, Friends of Europe is focused on engaging its partners and the new EU College of Commissioners around their vision and priorities for EU-Africa cooperation. In response to the Joint Communication Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa, this series serves as a consultative exercise for key stakeholders and partners from both continents to voice their perspectives on the future of the relationship.