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SUMMARY:APPG - Afrikan Reparations\, African Restitution
DESCRIPTION:All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations discussion on the restitution of African artefacts held in UK heritage collections.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAll-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR)\, invites you to explore the issues\, concerns and desires for the restitution of African artefacts held in UK heritage collections. AFFORD shares secretariat responsibilities for the APPG Afrikan Reparations\, focusing on issues of the restitution of cultural artefacts and ancestral remains. \nEstimates suggest that up to 90% of sub-Saharan Africa’s cultural heritage is held outside the African continent. A result of conquest\, plunder\, colonisation\, as well as legitimate trade and exchange\, although this figure is disputed by some experts. \nMost of the UK’s African artefacts are held outside the national museums and collections\, and not governed by UK legislation. Currently\, there are no accurate figures of the total number of African artefacts and human remains held in UK museums\, libraries\, palaces\, and other public collections. The vast majority of these artefacts are held in storage and not on public display. \nJoin us to explore ways forward on these important issues and learn more about the work of the APPG-AR on African restitution. \nHosted by African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) \nChair\nBell Ribeiro-Addy MP – Chair of the All-Party Group on Afrikan Reparations \nSpeakers\n\nOnyekachi Wambu\, Executive Director of AFFORD\nElsie Owusu OBE RIBA FRSA\, Architect and Specialist Conservation Architect\, interior and urban designer\nYvette Abrahams Ph. D. in Economic History\, Consultant for government and various NGOs
URL:https://afford-uk.org/event/appg-afrikan-reparations-african-restitution/
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SUMMARY:ABC Webinar: What investors are looking for with Christelle Kupa & Rubelyn Alcantara from Uhusiano Capital (UK)
DESCRIPTION:Join  Christelle Kupa and Rubelyn Alcantra of Uhusiano Capital who will : \n\nTheir experience of running an Investment Fund\nWhat they look for from entrepreneurs as investors\nTheir thoughts on what diaspora entrepreneurs should be focused on in terms of business in Africa\nTips for entrepreneurs seeking investment\n\nThis webinar is free to attend register here \nAbout the speakers \nChristelle Kupa is a sustainable finance expert and global impact investor with experience spanning international finance & banking\, sustainable investing and cross-border innovation scale-up. \nChristelle is the Founder and Chief Executive of Uhusiano Capital which she founded in 2016 as a catalyst to facilitate better business in the African impact investing sector\, with a particular interest in agriculture and women economic empowerment. Christelle has convened a team of experts and specialists with whom she has developed service propositions that solve complex problems and add value for communities\, stakeholders and shareholders in Africa. \nChristelle spent 13 years as an Investment banker and Hedge-fund manager\, JP Morgan and development expert at Symbiotics. \nChristelle is an internationally recognised leader in impact investment. She has spoken at high profile events and conferences around the world and has been an expert participant in a number of panels and knowledge-sharing initiatives. \nIn her non-for-profit activities\, Christelle is a practitioner\, advocate\, and lecturer on sustainable impact capitalism and community bridging through business and bottom-up leadership. She sits as a Trustee on Medical aid film. \nChristelle is Belgian- Congolese\, based in London\, with extensive travel on the African continent. She holds a BA in business and finance and speaks French\, Flemish\, English\, with some basics in Swahili and Lingala. \nRubelyn Alcantara\, MBA is CEO & Founder\, Supivaa Advisory Group (Canada)  which was founded after she spent several years supporting businesses\, entrepreneurs and investors in Africa. Supivaa Advisory Group is a boutique consultancy firm focused on two pillars 1. Facilitating and encouraging Canada-Africa trade & investment and 2. Women’s Empowerment. \n“Supivaa” is a play on words French/English of “support” and “vivre” (to live) thus “supporting life”. Supivaa also has a second\, more fun meaning\, “supporting the divas”. Ruby is also an Advisor to Uhusiano Capital\, an UK regulated financial advisory firm focused on Impact Investing in Africa. \nOriginally from Vancouver\, Canada\, Ruby first stepped foot on the African continent in 2007 and since then\, supporting Africa’s economic development has been interwoven her DNA. For the past 7 years\, she’s been leading start-ups/projects either in or focused on Africa’s growth in a variety of sectors including renewable energy\, agriculture\, fin-tech\, education\, health\, and media/publishing. \nRuby has lived and worked across Africa including Tanzania\, Nigeria\, Madagascar\, South Africa\, Cameroon\, Uganda\, Egypt\, and Kenya. Early in her career\, she worked with both governments and private sector in Africa to promote their respective countries to investors\, policy-makers and key decision-makers\, by producing reports distributed publications such as The Wall Street Journal\, The Economist and the International Herald Tribune (now The New York Times International). \nRuby has played a lead role in companies that have benefited from commercial\, impact and/or hybrid investment and as such she’s passionate to ensure that projects and entrepreneurs can get the support they need to hit that critical trajectory for growth and ensuring their investors are rewarded. \nRuby has served as Managing Director of Push Observer\, an investment of SixTelecoms Group in Tanzania\, where she trebled the company’s client base in less than 2 years with clients including of Vodacom\, Diageo\, the United Nations\, British Gas and the Government of Tanzania. \nShe was the Chief Marketing Officer at Homestrings Ltd\, later known as Movement Capital\, one of the first crowdfunding sites focused on Africa.  She was part of the founding team that raised $25 million USD for 35 deals in 12 countries across Africa.  Most recently\, she consulted\, serving as interim-CEO for a solar energy and agriculture company in Madagascar which is a blended finance/hybrid investment of a private investor and grant funding from the EU. \nToday her focus is on working/advising with both the Seekers of Capital (entrepreneurs and fund managers) and the Investors themselves (both Impact Investors and commercial investors) to actualise on the potential of Africa. Often with the Impact lens leveraging on the guidelines of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI) ensuring both ESG and SDG alignments. \nRuby holds an international MBA from IE Business School (Spain)\, a BA in Communications and Political Science from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia Academy (Canada). \nRegister to attend this webinar here
URL:https://afford-uk.org/event/abc-webinar-what-investors-are-looking-for/
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SUMMARY:AFFORD Learn and Lunch with Denise Rawls
DESCRIPTION:According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) late payments\, over 30 days\, cost the UK economy over £2.5 billion every year and result in over 50\,000 businesses going under. \nFreelancers make up over 15% of the UK workforce and the impact of late payments means entrepreneurs are at regular at risk of losing their homes\, their relationships and struggling with their mental health. \nSometimes\, although unhelpful\, the reason for a late payment is understandable\, a late payment in the chain impacts everyone waiting to be paid further down the line. More often than not late payment is just down to poor financial management by a client.  In this webinar we will look at some tools you can use to encourage your clients to pay you quickly and before the 30- day limit and how to chase payments and remain objective\, professional and sane. \nRegister here
URL:https://afford-uk.org/event/afford-learn-and-lunch-with-denise-rawls/
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SUMMARY:ABC Webinar: Men\, Business and Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our webinar which will be focused on Men\, Business and Wellbeing. \nWe will be covering: \n\nThe challenges faced by men in business\, and ways to overcome these\nAdvice for managing responsibilities and expectations of self\nThe importance of taking care of your mental health and where to go for support and guidance\n\nThe speakers will include Nii Odartei Evans of the BBC and Yann W. Tanoé of SunBird Journal Publishing.
URL:https://afford-uk.org/event/abc-webinar-men-business-and-wellbeing/
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SUMMARY:ABC Webinar: The Business of African Food
DESCRIPTION:Join us for The Business of African Food webinar were industry experts and entrepreneurs – Albert Tucker of Karma Cola UK\, Kemi Onafuwa of Ades Foods and Tokunbo Koiki of Tokunbo’s Kitchen as a facilitator will discuss how to best overcome the practical challenges faced by those in the African food industry. \nThe webinar will cover \n\nHow to effectively set up your business\nThe realities of running an African food business\nChallenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs\nWhere to go for assistance and guidance\n\nWho is it for? \nThis webinar will appeal to those already in the food industry\,  food and beverage manufacturers\, as well as people interested in turning their passion of food into a business. \nRegister here.  You will be sent an access link to the webinar once registered. 
URL:https://afford-uk.org/event/abc-webinar-the-business-of-african-food/
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SUMMARY:Doing Business in Zimbabwe Webinar
DESCRIPTION:You are exclusively invited to participate in a webinar hosted by the AFFORD Business Club (ABC)\, which will be focused on Doing Business in Zimbabwe. The speakers will include Na Ncube of The Global Native\, Busi Bango of EMPRETEC and Denise Rawls of AFFORD UK as a facilitator.  \nWe will be covering:\n• How to effectively set up your business\n• The realities of running a business in Zimbabwe\n• Challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs\n• Where to go for assistance and guidance\nTo register for the session click here
URL:https://afford-uk.org/event/doing-business-in-zimbabwe-webinar/
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SUMMARY:MADE West Africa Webinar: Call for Proposals Ghana & Sierra Leone
DESCRIPTION:The Migration and Development West Africa project\, Partnership for a Governance of Migration and Rights-Based Mobility\, also known as MADE West Africa is funded by the European Commission and implemented by ICMC Europe (International Catholic Migration Commission)\, AFFORD (African Foundation for Development)\, the Centre for Migration Studies (University of Ghana) and FORIM (Forum of International Organizations of Migration Issues) \nMADE West Africa has opened a call for proposals from organisations whose actions promote the positive potential of migrants for development from Ghana and Sierra Leone. \nThe call for proposals particularly concerns maximizing the contribution of diaspora to effectively support development and job creation in Ghana or Sierra Leone. It is part of a series of actions implemented by AFFORD in partnership with local organisations. AFFORD will be hosting a free 1 hour webinar on Tuesday 14th August at 4pm available to anyone interested in applying. The webinar will include: \n• An introduction to the work and objectives of AFFORD and MADE Network\n• An overview of the application process\n• Criteria for eligibility and selection process\n• Top tips for a successful application \nIf you would like to take part in this free webinar\, please fill in the form here.
URL:https://afford-uk.org/event/made-west-africa-webinar-call-for-proposals-ghana-sierra-leone/
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