Theme:

Strengthening Ties and Building Bridges For Recovery And Growth

About The Event

2020 GPAD Forum Report

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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%.

These numbers are bound to worsen as the effects of the pandemic soar. Lead Africa International is concerned that as these effects exacerbate, youth unemployment will increase and social unrests will manifest. This has been witnessed in the demand for decent employment by youth during the Arab Spring that dominated North Africa between 2010 and 2012. The Regional Risks for Doing Business 2019 report has also identified “unemployment or underemployment” as the top risk in Africa.

It is against this backdrop that Lead Africa International has organised its 2020 Global Partnership for African Development (G-PAD) forum with a principal focus on establishing and reinvigorating multilateral cooperation with Africa for growth and development. Particularly, this year’s G-PAD will build on the progress made at the 2019 G-PAD conference to foster synergy between Germany’s and the European Union (EU)’s partnership with Africa around investments aimed at job creatin on the continent.

Building on prior progress: Africa-EU-Germany

In recent years, Germany and the EU, have demonstrated commitment to deepening their relationship with Africa for economic growth. Through the harmonised Africa Policy adopted by Germany in 2019 and the new Africa-Europe proposal announced in March 2020 by the European Commission, a promising collaboration was burgeoning only to be curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has caused the EU and most of its Member States including Germany, to shift their priorities to domestic affairs. However, the pandemic will not last forever, but sustainable partnerships will, as they are a gateway to resolving a plethora of challenges on the two continents including, the European migration ‘crisis’, unemployment in Africa and the spill-over effects it has on both continents.

In July 2020, Germany took over the six-month presidency of the Council of the EU, committing to its strategy to encourage partnership between the EU and Africa, and to further its cooperation with African enterprises to establish African markets which will lead to job creation. Through the 2020 G-PAD conference, Lead Africa International aims to bring together stakeholders, from Africa, Germany and the EU at large to develop a comprehensive approach to policy and multilateral collaboration that will be of mutual benefit to all in accordance to its thematic core this year: Strengthening Ties and Building Bridges For Recovery And Growth.

Target participants:

  • African entrepreneurs and business leaders
  • African government officials and diplomats
  • African development policy experts
  • German and European government officials and diplomats
  • German and European development policy experts
  • Representative of African and European civil society organisations
  • Representative of the African Diaspora community
  • Academia, young professionals and students, as well as other interested individuals from around the world

Where

Online via ZOOM

When

Friday & Saturday
27 & 28 November

Event Speakers

Here are some of our speakers

Speaker 1

Khaled Sherif

Vice-President, African Development Bank

Speaker 2

Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba

Botswana’s Second Ambassador, Federal Republic of Germany

Speaker 3

Albert Mudenda Muchanga

African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry

Speaker 4

Philipp Keil

Managing Director, Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ)

Speaker 2

Chioma Nwafor

Senior Financial Analyst and Economics, GCU UK

Speaker 6

Marco Kpeglo LeRoc

Founder/Executive Director, Leadership Africa Summit.

Speaker 6

Anita Omercevic-Gültekin

Project Manager, Forum der Kulturen Stuttgart e. V.

Speaker 6

Timothy Birabi

Corporate Strategy Consultant, London, UK

Speaker 6

Geert Laporte

Director of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG)

Speaker 6

Atsufumi Yokoi

VP for Global Engagement Strategy of Okayama University (Japan)

Speaker 6

Frank Schittenhelm

Professor of Financial Mgt at NGU

Speaker 5

Timi Olanrewaju

Founder/Executive Director, Lead Africa Int'l.

Event Schedule

Here is our event schedule

Strengthening Ties and Building Bridges for Recovery and Growth.

Focus on Recovery

Introduction

Brenden Legros

Faith Miyandazi,- Head of Communications, European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF).

Brenden Legros

Laura S. Kauer García, Human Right Researcher and MA candidate at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS), University of London

Opening Performances - African Vibes.

Welcome Address & Opening Remarks

Brenden Legros

Timi Olanrewaju,- Executive Director, Lead Africa International e.V.

Brenden Legros

Mr. Christoph Grammer,- Head of the Development Cooperation Center, State Ministry Baden-Württemberg

Brenden Legros

Mr. Philipp Keil, - Executive Director, SEZ - Foundation for Development Cooperation, Baden-Württemberg

Jack Christiansen

Keynote Address I

VP Khaled Sheriff, - Vice President, Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, Africa Development Bank

Jack Christiansen

Keynote Address II

Amb. Albert Mudenda Muchanga, - African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry

Discussants

Brenden Legros

Dr. Knox Chitiyo,- Associate Fellow, Africa Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London UK

Brenden Legros

Prof. John Struthers,- Director Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) School of Business and Enterprise University of West of Scotland

Moderator

Brenden Legros

Faith Miyandazi,- Head of Communications, European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF).

Q&A Session

Topic 1: Covid-19: How Digitization and Technology Disruption Will Help Economic Recovery in The Global South

Brenden Legros

Mr. Sunil Geness,- Director Global Government Affairs & CSR, Global Sustainability Lead: Africa, SAP Africa

Brenden Legros

Engr. Ifeanyi F. Ogochuckwu, - Chief Technology Strategist, Debbie Mishael Group, Board member EC- Council Global Advisory Board for CND: Digitization and Development: The African Perspective

Topic 2: Leadership Strategies towards Recovery: Africa in Focus

Brenden Legros

Mr. Marco Kpeglo LeRoc, - Creator/Director, Leadership Africa Summit, Nebraska, USA

Moderator

Brenden Legros

Laura S. Kauer García, - Human Right Researcher and MA candidate at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS), University of London

Q&A Session

Alejandrin Littel

Lead Academy Research Work: Presentation 1 and Discussion

Moderator

Mr. Anthony Obute, - PhD Candidate, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Wrap Up

Focus on Growth

Introduction

Brenden Legros

Laura S. Kauer García, Human Right Researcher and MA candidate at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS), University of London

Opening Performances - African Vibes.

Jack Christiansen

Keynote Address I

Her Excellency Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba, - Ambassador of the Republic of Botswana to German

Jack Christiansen

Keynote Address II

Mr. Geert Laporte, - Deputy Director for European Center for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) and Director European Think Tank Group (ETTG)

Q&A Session

Topic 1: Migration & Development Policy (CaseStudy Forum der Kulturen Stuttgart e.V.)

Brenden Legros

Ms. Anita Omercevic, - Projektreferentin Migration und Entwicklungspolitik

Topic 2: The Friedrich Naumann Foundation

Brenden Legros

Inge Herbert, - Regional Director Sub-Saharan Africa, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

Topic 3: Responsibility beyond Recovery

Brenden Legros

Dr. Timothy Birabi,- PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow and is presently a Corporate Strategy Consultant in London, UK

Brenden Legros

Dr. Chioma Nwafor, - Department of Finance, Accounting and Risk, Glasgow Caledonia University, Scotland, UK

Moderator

Brenden Legros

Laura S. Kauer García, - Human Right Researcher and MA candidate at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS), University of London

Q&A Session

Topic 1: Global Engagement Strategy towards Growth: Africa In Focus

Brenden Legros

Prof. Atsufumi Yokoi, - Vice President, Okayama University, Tokyo Japan, and UNESCO Chairholder

Brenden Legros

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schittenhelm, - International Finance Management, College of Business and Environment

Topic 2: The Africa We Want: Diaspora’s Role in Growth

Brenden Legros

Mr. Marco Kpeglo LeRoc, - Creator/Director, Leadership Africa Summit, Nebraska, USA

Brenden Legros

Dr. Knox Chitiyo, - Associate Fellow, Africa Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London

Moderator

Brenden Legros

Laura S. Kauer García, - Human Right Researcher and MA candidate at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS), University of London

Q&A Session

Alejandrin Littel

Lead Academy Research Work: Presentation 2 and Discussion

Moderator

Mr. Anthony Obute, - PhD Candidate, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Hubert Hirthe

Closing Keynote

Timi Olanrewaju, - Executive Director, Lead Africa International e.V

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