THEME: Developing Women’s Leadership Capacity for Greater Influence & Impact in a Changing World.

The Amazons Watch Magazine and Centre for Economic and Leadership Development (CELD) are pleased to invite you to the Women Leadership Development Forum in Kigali.

THEME:Building Back Transformed Economies Post COVID-19: The need for Inclusive Leadership

The South America-Africa-Middle East-Asia Women Summit (SAMEAWS) aims to bring together the most influential and prominent women as well as key stakeholders from these regions, under one roof, to discuss the need to recognize and harness the untapped and profitable opportunities that women economic and political engagements presents. 

The South America-Africa-Middle-Asia Women Summit (SAMEAWS) is an annual programme that brings together, the most influential and prominent women as well as key stakeholders from the South America, Africa, Middle East and Asian regions to re-emphasize critical role of women to the future of developing economies, celebrate influential and prominent female role models who are directly contributing to their development, and most assuredly, confront the inequalities women face and focus on the change we want to see – and create – in the world.

 The 2021 edition of this summit, which has held in Dubai over the past 8 years,  would focus on the theme: “Forging and Adapting to New Realities for Greater Influence and Impact in a Rapidly Changing World” in light of the recent data from UN Women indicating that gender equality in the highest positions of power will not be reached for another 130 years as only 26 women are serving as Heads of State and/or Government in 24 countries in 2021, while gender parity in national legislative bodies will not be achieved before 2063 as only 19 countries have reached or surpassed 40 per cent of women in parliament, including five countries Latin America and the Caribbean, four in Africa, and one in the Pacific.

Needless to say, achieving the UN-sponsored Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is hinged on women’s equal participation and leadership. Therefore, the America-Africa-Middle-Asia Women Summit (SAMEAWS) shall be a mixture of keynotes, paper presentations, roundtable sessions, and pre-summit workshop that would offer unique and strategic opportunities for women leaders from all walks of life to openly share experiences and explore emerging best practices, adapt with agility to new realities, up-skill and bridge the knowledge gap, build more capacity as professionals and leaders, demonstrate resilience during uncertain times, leverage digital tools, innovate to thrive and take their place at the highest echelon of leadership, and contribute their quota to solving the rising challenges in the today’s fast changing world.

The objectives of the summit are therefore as follows:

1. Convene Think-Tanks, Experts, Academics, Researchers and Research scholars to explore unique approaches to women’s greater influence and impact.
2. Get global female business and political leaders to share and adopt new realities, best practises that would help strengthen their influence and impact in their countries.
3. Convene a High-Level Roundtable Sessions and Panel Discussions for stakeholders across developing nations to engage and exchange experiences, lessons-learned and best practices in developing diversity of skills and female leadership in the society.
4. Celebrate some of influential leaders and businesses across emerging economies, who directly contributing to community and national development.

SAMEAWS 2021 shall have the following key highlights:

1. Keynotes and paper presentations
2. First Ladies on a Mission Roundtable
3. Policymakers & Stakeholders Roundtable Session
4. Female CEOs Roundtable Session
5. CSR & Gender Equality- A panel discussion by companies and organizations making CSR women-friendly in developing nations.
6. Amazons Watch Magazine’s Blue Ribbon Awards & annual Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (GWLHOF) induction ceremony
7. Unveiling the Amazons Watch Magazine’s 2021 Game Changers -Top 400 Women to Watch from Emerging Nations & Top 50 Public Sector Women of Excellence Showcase 2021
8. Pre-summit women leadership development workshop.

Some of the key expected Participants at SAMEAWS 2020:

1. Female Heads of Government and Senior Female Government Leaders
2. First Ladies and Wives of Heads of Government
3. Major Industry Titans, leading CEOs and private-sector Stakeholders
4. Female Heads and Members of Boards
5. Academics, Researchers and Research scholars
6. International Development Institutions

THEME: Sustainable Urban Development- Pathways to Transforming our Cities for a Better Urban Future

The African Leadership Magazine is pleased to invite you to the African Forum on Urban Regeneration & Sustainable Development taking place this December in Kigali, Rwanda to explore pathways to transforming African cities.

THEME: Africa 4.0: Redefining Growth, Sustainability & Innovation.

African Leadership Magazine is pleased to invite you to the ALM Africa Summit and African Business & Leadership Awards 2021.

Africa is home to some of the fastest growing economies in the world, and despite the much-hyped stereotypes of a continent forever plagued by disease, war and turmoil, it is rapidly becoming the most desirable investment destination in the world today. Though the African economy has been badly hit by the pandemic, one of the apparent pathways economic transformation and sustainability in Africa is for policymakers to intentionally grapple with the exciting opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Africa which has been upending the nature of work, globally.

By 2030, Africa’s potential workforce will be among the world’s largest, and with the needed infrastructure and skills for innovation and technology use, the 4IR will spur massive opportunity for growth. In recent years, the ICT sector in Africa has continued to grow, a trend that is likely to continue as available data shows that mobile technologies and services have generated 1.7 million formal and informal direct jobs, as well as contributed to $144 billion of economic value (8.5 percent of the GDP of sub-Saharan Africa), and $15.6 billion to the public sector through taxation. 

In the same vein, the Industry 4.0 will narrow the traditional; engender digitization of the manufacturing sector, with tremendous opportunities for African manufacturers and small and medium enterprises to create new business models of the future and integrate into global value chains seamlessly.

The African Leadership Magazine is therefore putting together The ALM Africa Summit-2021 to bring together Policymakers, private sector leaders, Industry Titans, and all stakeholders during this forum to contribute to shaping a new future for our continent. The summit will also offer a platform for Africa to showcase the key investment opportunities, and celebrate the African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) 2021, a highlight of the summit.

Key Highlights of the Summit

• Keynotes and Panel discussions
• Investment opportunities showcase from states, regional and national governments
• The 11th African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) 2021.
• Editorial listing of Top 50 Industry Leaders 2021
• Unveiling the ABLA special edition

Target Audience 

• African Policymakers, Business leaders, & Entrepreneurs
• Key Stakeholders and potential investors in Africa
• Think-tanks, International Development Institutions and academics
• All lovers of Africa progress.