The Aspen Institute of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is presenting its Annual West Africa Regional Conference on July 19-20.
The event, which comes off at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra is under the theme ‘Accelerating Small and Growing Business Growth in Africa’
The annual conference is a destination event for Enterprise Support Organisations, capacity-building agencies, accelerators, academic institutions, impact investors, and governments that propel entrepreneurship in developing economies and promotes networking for more robust entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa.
The conference will feature an interactive agenda with sessions focused on cross-cutting sector issues such as gender equality, climate and environmental action, employment, and economic growth.
Some of the speakers include Kafui Bimpe, Group Head Business - Access Bank Ghana; Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, CEO - NEIP Ghana; Hamdiya Ismaila, Impact Investing Ghana Board Member/MD Venture Capital Trust Fund; Peter Bamkole - Enterprise Development Center of Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria with a keynote address delivered by Michael Mensah Baah, Deputy CEO of Development Bank of Ghana.
“ANDE is proud to announce the return of our in-person Annual West Africa Regional Conference to offer tangible opportunities to network, collaborate, and learn with some of Africa’s foremost leaders, practitioners, and visionaries across Francophone and Anglophone West Africa.
"We are also excited to use the conference as a platform to launch the new ANDE report on how Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) has changed in response to COVID-19, with a spotlight on Africa”, says ANDE Executive Director, Richenda Van Leeuwen.
Interactive activities will include GIZ’s Private Adaptation Investment Bootcamp exploring gaps between demand and supply side finance with fund managers, ANDE’s gender-lens-focused digital platform co-designed by the MIT DLab and funded by USAID, and an exhibition featuring Agriculture and Tech ventures supported by the UN International Trade Center.
In closing, FMO (Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank) and Impact Investing Ghana will co-host a Reception bringing together investors, entrepreneurs, local experts and intermediaries to highlight successful deals as well as encourage closer connections between the industry insiders in attendance at the Conference.
The ANDE West Africa Regional Conference will be presented with strategic partner, Impact Investing Ghana and official sponsors including Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO), German Development Agency (GIZ), Center for International Private Enterprise, Aspire Corporate Trust (ACT) Foundation and Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM).
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