THEME:  Developing and Enabling Women as a High End Resource for Problem-Solving.

The Centre for Economic and Leadership Development (CELD), in partnership with the African Leadership UK Limited is thrilled to invite you to the 5-day Women Leadership Development Forum, which is scheduled to hold both physically (in Accra – Ghana) and virtually (Via Zoom) from 9th – 13th August 2021, with the theme: Developing and Enabling Women as a High End Resource for Problem-Solving

Are you responsible for advancing the women in your organization and looking for a genuine way to elevate all aspiring women in the pipeline – who have the desire, potential and commitment to emerge as leaders as well as increase your female skill sets?  Then, CELD’s Women Leadership Development Forum 2021 is the perfect educational and training platform for organizations serious about diversity and elevating the progression of their female talent. At the Forum on Women Leadership Development Forum 2021, we are optimistic that the participants will expand their management and leadership skills, explore emerging best practices, and build a personal action plan to take them to their place at the top and contribute their quota to solving the rising challenges in today’s fast-changing world.

WHY ATTEND?

Nothing is more energizing than sharing insights and comparing experiences with other seasoned women leaders. Therefore, this forum will bring together accomplished women from a wide range of disciplines and industries to build meaningful relationships with one another, exchange ideas, openly share their collective wisdom and experiences, and integrate insights from evidence-based research and practical lessons that will increase the capacity on women, strengthen their resilience, enable them to make confident moves by taking more risks, and prepare them take on more challenging roles as a problem solvers. This forum will provide you with an agenda to learn the skills necessary to give you opportunities to develop the confidence to go for what you want in your career through a supportive peer learning environment.

During this forum, alongside renowned faculty and a global group of accomplished peers, you will able to:

• Identify and capture new opportunities for innovation.
• Create an environment that inspires and sustains results-focused change.
• Develop talent and leadership qualities in others.
• Foster and leverage organizational diversity.
• Inspire ethical decision-making throughout the organization.
• Equip the female talent in your organization with the capabilities, tools and mindset to lead in your business.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The forum will explore challenges that have practical relevance to your workplace and consider current issues that you are facing as a leader. This includes:

• Learning from personal stories and experiences sharing with your peers
• Learning how to pursue your leadership journey without bias or barriers
• Getting a clear sense of where gender lies within the wider diversity and inclusion ambitions for your organization.
• Understanding and refining your personal strengths and how best to use them.
• Learning to navigate leadership issues through external perspectives from experienced guest speakers.
• Develop the skills, through intensive discussions guided by our speaker faculty, to articulate a vision and inspire followers, and gain strategic communication skills to manage key stakeholders and influence without authority.
• Drive your career progression and transition to a greater leadership role in your organization.

Rethink your personal leadership style and explore and experiment with new approaches.

THEME: Emerging Risks in Regulation & Compliance: Adjusting to New Regulatory Models and Approaches

Post COVID-19.

Following the success of the inaugural edition, which took place on August 22 – 26, 2019 at the Hilton London Metropole – United Kingdom, the African Regulatory Agencies & Standards Administrators Forum– 2021, which could not hold in the year 2020 due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, would now hold virtually (Via ZOOM) this year as an educational and capacity-building platform where academics and practitioners in the field of regulation from across Africa will come together to share insights and lessons regarding emerging regulatory challenges.

The African Regulatory Agencies & Standards Administrators Forum – 2021 will bring together an international faculty of speakers and other seasoned regulatory professionals, including heads of African standards and regulatory organizations, to engage in a peer-to-peer dialogue and learning across regulatory functions –economic, health, environment and quality of service, as well as harmonize regulatory policies, information exchange and lessons-learned in Africa. 

The forum will adopt a training methodology that will include case studies, group live instruction and discussions, presentation and discussion of worked examples, and an interactive online robust participation to draw on cross-sectoral experience.

WHO IS THE FORUM FOR?

• CEOs, Senior Executives and Board Members of Regulatory agencies and standards administrators from across Africa
• Risk Managers
• Regulatory Representatives
• Professionals dealing with Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
• Managers responsible for Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Activities

About African Leadership Magazine:

The African Leadership magazine is published by African Leadership (UK) Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom (Company No. 07435198). The magazine focuses on bringing the best of Africa to a global audience, telling the African story from an African perspective; while evolving solutions to peculiar challenges being faced by the continent today.

Since its maiden edition, African Leadership Magazine has grown to become a leading pan-African flagship leadership-focused publication read by targeted international investors, business executives, government policymakers, and multilateral agencies across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Europe, and the US. It is distributed at major international and African Leadership events around the world. The magazine has over 900,000 subscribers/Followers on Facebook alone and a virile readership on other social media platforms. It is a niche and unbiased African voice, telling African stories from African lenses.

THEME: Financing for Development in Challenging Times

As global leaders converge in Kigali, Rwanda, for the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM, in June 2021, African Leadership Magazine is hosting the International Forum on Public Finance & Taxation for Development in Africa on the sidelines of CHOGM. 

The Forum with the theme: Financing for Development in Challenging Times is billed to hold from 16-18 June 2021 at the Ubumwe Grande Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda. The event will have in attendance Ministers of Finance, tax experts, business, political and diplomatic leaders from around the world.    

Prevailing realities have shown that Sub-Saharan Africa may have avoided the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of infections and deaths, but the economic casualties have been enormous. 

According to a 2020 world Bank regional economic analysis titled: Africa’s Pulse: Charting the Road to Recovery, the pandemic pushed Sub-Saharan Africa to experience its first recession after 25 years. It also drove about 40 million people into extreme poverty and erased at least five years of the progress made in fighting poverty. Furthermore, the pandemic compromised the continent’s public finance significantly. Many countries were forced to adopt incentives to taxpayers as they experienced an unprecedented contraction of tax revenue. The pandemic also placed extreme stress on public spending as governments struggled to respond to the health crisis, including increased funding for the health sector, social and business relief, measures to reduce and combat the spread of the virus and various other related needs. 

The pandemic poses tremendous challenges for Africa. However, it offers opportunities for constructive change, as well. It provides opportunities for a fresh start as most nations and companies have been placed on start-up modes. 

Some have estimated that it will take about 10-15 years for countries to recover from the impact of COVID-19. However, the pace of recovery will essentially be dependent on individual efforts, strategies and ingenuity. More importantly, the recovery pace will be driven by the management of scarce resources towards financing development and improving taxation.    

Therefore, this Forum seeks to evolve discussions centred on tested strategies, policy frameworks, and intentional plans to solve major public finance and taxation issues in the continent. The forum will also provide a platform for participants to network and find solutions to peculiar challenges they face in their different countries, states and establishments. 

  Global trends and prevailing realities suggest that only Africans can truly understand Africa and thus solve the continent’s problems. The Forum will galvanize homegrown solutions for solving Africa’s public finance dilemma.

Objectives

1. To help evolve home grown solutions for peculiar public finance and taxation issues.
2. To promote an exchange of tested ideas, projects, research results, and findings that can help to build sustainable economic growth in the various regions, sub-regions and nations.
3. Promote a clear understanding of Taxation in the Digital Economy.
4. To provide a platform of opportunities for participants to undertake peer review also meet face to face with renowned experts, development economists, academics, and development partners to establish global partnerships for assistance and collaborations.

Forum Highlights

1. High-level panels and Keynote Presentations

2. Interactive Sessions 

3. Ideating sessions 

4. Experts Knowledge Sharing Session 

5. Unrivaled Networking Opportunities

About African Leadership Magazine:

The African Leadership magazine is published by African Leadership (UK) Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom (Company No. 07435198). The magazine focuses on bringing the best of Africa to a global audience, telling the African story from an African perspective; while evolving solutions to peculiar challenges being faced by the continent today.

Since its maiden edition, African Leadership Magazine has grown to become a leading pan-African flagship leadership-focused publication read by targeted international investors, business executives, government policymakers, and multilateral agencies across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Europe, and the US. It is distributed at major international and African Leadership events around the world. The magazine has over 900,000 subscribers/Followers on Facebook alone and a virile readership on other social media platforms. It is a niche and unbiased African voice, telling African stories from African lenses.

THEME: US – Africa Relations: Partnerships, Recovery and Sustainability

As the African continent find strategies to confront the twin health and economic crises created by the COVID-19 pandemic, to build back stronger than ever, African leaders would require the partnership of the Biden administration. The continent’s leaders must position Africa as a land of many opportunities; and we expect the Biden administration to lay the groundwork for a renewed U.S. policy agenda to promote resilience and prosperity in Africa, given President Biden’s proclivity for multilateralism and his anticipated prioritization of the African Continental Free Trade Area. The forum would also address the question whether a renewed and reimagined transatlantic partnership towards Africa can be a key element for the continent to achieve economic recovery.

 African Leadership Magazine is, therefore, putting together the 6th US – Africa Business & Policy Forum 2021 to bring together policymakers, private sector leaders, Industry Titans, civil society leaders, and all stakeholders in US-Africa matters during this forum to provide insights on how Biden’s African policy in the coming years, as well as facilitate a U.S. private sector-led growth in Africa.

Key Highlights of The Forum

1. Keynotes, Plenary and Breakout session
2. Industry Roundtables and Thematic Paper Presentations
3. Policymakers Roundtable Session: a high-level platform designed to engage the US/African policymakers in discussions on Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), Defence and security co-operations; AGOA and other Economic Development avenues; and deepening people-to-people relationships.
4. Race Relations Roundtable dialogue session.
5. African Leadership Magazine Awards presentations to ‘Top 100 US companies doing business in Africa’ & “Top 100 African American Leaders 2020 List”, in recognition of their contributions to communities’ development and economic recovery.
6. The 4th African Banking Leadership Awards– an annual presentation ceremony to recognize professionalism, innovation and excellence in Africa’s banking and financial services sector.

Who Can Participate?

1. Policymakers, Senior Government Officials and Diplomats
2. Heads of Government, Agencies, and institutions
3. Major Industry Titans and private sector leaders
4. Think-tanks and International Development Institutions
5. Academics, Civil society leaders and 
6. All US-Africa relations stakeholders

About African Leadership Magazine:

The African Leadership magazine is published by African Leadership (UK) Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom (Company No. 07435198). The magazine focuses on bringing the best of Africa to a global audience, telling the African story from an African perspective; while evolving solutions to peculiar challenges being faced by the continent today.

Since its maiden edition, African Leadership Magazine has grown to become a leading pan-African flagship leadership-focused publication read by targeted international investors, business executives, government policymakers, and multilateral agencies across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Europe, and the US. It is distributed at major international and African Leadership events around the world. The magazine has over 900,000 subscribers/Followers on Facebook alone and a virile readership on other social media platforms. It is a niche and unbiased African voice, telling African stories from African lenses.