Emerging Trade and Investment Opportunities in Africa - 7 November 2020 (online event)
Please join Nebraska World Affairs Council (NEWAC) to welcome our speaker, Ms. Toyin Umesiri, CEO of Nazaru LLC and Founder of the Trade with Africa® Network. Ms. Umesiri spent over a decade in corporate America at Walmart and Whirlpool Corporations. She brings sector-specific market insights on trade with and investments in Africa.
In her presentation, Ms. Umesiri will argue that the countries of Africa can no longer be ignored because:
- After the passing of the African Continent Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the world’s largest trade bloc is in Africa.
- The population on the continent of Africa is projected to double by 2050 from 1.1 billion people to about 2.2 billion.
- Prior to COVID-19, Africa had 6 of the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world, a burgeoning middle class, and a fast paced rate of urbanization.
- 60% of the world’s remaining arable land is in Africa.
- With a youth-bubble of 70% of the population under 35, Africa is positioned as the next global economic engine. […]
Africa and ADR in an evolving landscape - 18 Novembre 2020 (online event)
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya Branch), will host this 4th International Conference on how Africa is evolving and strengthening its practice of ADR. With the COVID-19 Pandemic, it brings the thought-provoking questions on how Africa is prepared to continue to grow and explore the ADR space in the regional and internationally. The conference will bring together Practicing Arbitrators, and Institutions promoting and championing ADR.
We have lined up session topics includingArbitration and technology in Africa during and after COVID-19
• African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)impact on arbitral practice
• African states at ICSID: experiences and prospects
• Dispute resolution in FIDIC Contracts
• Regional courts and arbitration
• 3rd party funding and investment arbitration
• Round Table discussion: Moving into the Future
Special sessions have also been lined up to engage in deeper discussions and Additional sessions to promote conversation among the young professionals and Launch event for Women in ADR.
AFRICAN HEALTHCARE INVESTING - 4 November 2020 (online event)
Learn how Covid-19 is reshaping the healthcare investment landscape and how investment goals and strategies are being reshaped.
- How Covid-19 is reshaping the healthcare investment landscape?
- How have traditional private equity and strategic investors adjusted to the reality of Covid-19?
- What are current trends around healthcare investing?
- What are some of the opportunities that are emerging for PE in healthcare?
- How to create value given the current disruption in the marketplace?
ETTG/ECDPM OECD Webinar – Weathering the storm: what role for multilateral development finance in response to the COVID-19 crisis - 29 October2020 (online event)
On Thursday 29 of October at 16:00 pm (CET) we will host the ETTG-OECD webinar event on multilateral development finance in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The webinar will investigate the dynamics of the Multilateral Development Finance framework in the wake of COVID-19, making concrete recommendations on the most effective and impactful ways forward.
The virtual WEBEX meeting will be in English and last 90 minutes, including Q&A.
AFRICA BUSINESS DAY - 23 October 2020 (online event)
The Africa Business Day is the indispensable annual platform in Switzerland for doing business in and with Africa. Africa Business Day is organized by the Swiss-African Business Circle under the patronage of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO. It brings together around 250 participants including CEOs, members of the Board, business development managers, export managers and investors. During the event, African Embassies/Missions present investment opportunities in their respective countries at country desks in the dedicated virtual exhibition area.
Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation (Eighth session) - 27-28 October 2020 (online event)
The UNCTAD secretariat has the honour to inform member States and other entities that, due to the physical restrictions in force at the Palais des Nations as a consequence of the continuing pandemic, the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport, Trade Logistics and Trade Facilitation, eighth session, will now be held virtually on 27–28 October 2020. The meeting sessions will be held each day from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 3–5 p.m. […]
Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (Thirty-seventh session)- 2–6 November 2020 (online event)
The thirty-seventh session of the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting will be held from 2 to 6 November 2020, from 2 to 4 p.m. each day. The session will open at 2 p.m. on Monday, 2 November 2020, in room XX of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Both in-person attendance and remote participation using an online platform will be possible, with interpretation in all United Nations languages. Further information on the modalities will be sent in due course. […]
Towards UN LDC5: Recovery from COVID-19 - 21&23 October 2020 (online event)
The EIF would like to warmly invite you to attend this virtual conference on how to best support LDCs recovering from COVID-19. The first session on 21 October will highlight emerging risks, and discuss how to address the vulnerabilities and build resilience of LDCs. The second session, on 23 October, featuring our own Executive Director, will discuss the new approaches and tools that could increase the mobilisation, impact and alignment of financing the recovery of LDCs.
U.S.-Ethiopia Investment Dialogue - 20 Octobre 2020 (online event)
Ethiopia's economic strategy clearly identifies priority sectors of manufacturing, agriculture, mining, tourism, and ICT in which Ethiopia holds comparative advantages. Over the past two decades, the Government has strengthened the country's competitiveness through major improvements in appropriate infrastructure and technical capacity, including massive investments in state-of-the-art industrial parks and logistics centers. The government has dramatically improved the country's transportation sector through the building of thousands of kilometers of paved roads, developing the railway system, and creating air passenger and cargo capacity unrivaled anywhere in the continent of Africa. In addition, the country continues to provide attractive incentives to investors in the identified priorities. The government is now implementing wide-ranging economic reform and privatization measures, opening several sectors to foreign investments.
The U.S- Ethiopia investment dialogue program is designed for participants to gain deep insight and update on Ethiopian's ongoing economic reform. […]
Webinar “Pulse check - Trade Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa during COVID-19”- 15 October 2020 (online event)
Following the release of a collaborative report that assessed the impact of COVID-19 on trade finance, Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A), an initiative hosted by the African Development Bank, is pleased to invite you to the following webinar together with report co-authors from the African Development Bank, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), the International Trade Center, the International Chamber of Commerce, Islamic Development Bank, West African Development Bank (BOAD) and East African Development Bank (EADB).
In this current unprecedented environment, policy makers & development organizations have attempted to respond to the multi-faceted pandemic and help sub-Saharan African countries ride these difficult times. Keeping trade in goods and services flowing presents an economic and social imperative to preserve the livelihoods of millions of Africans. Pre-COVID-19, the trade finance gap in Africa was already estimated to be above $100 billion.[…]