Donald Kaberuka, president, Africa Development Bank
(AfDB) Group, will be joined by many leading experts drawn from various
fields across and beyond the continent for the 2014 Africa CEO
Round-table and Conference on Corporate Sustainability and
Responsibility (AR-CSR™) scheduled to take place in Calabar from June 19
– 20, 2014.
All is now set to host business leaders, experts and other
professionals at the fourth edition of this all-inclusive CSR and
sustainability management event of the year and the first of its kind in
Africa. It will focus on Financial Inclusion with the theme: ‘The
Intersection: Financial Inclusion, Economic Sustainability and Social
Benefit.’
Other speakers who have confirmed participation include:
Brian Kuwik, senior vice president and Africa regional head, Accion.
Kuwik will also serve as lead discussant.
Others are Duncan Onyango, director, Acumen Fund East
Africa; Issam Chleuh, founder/CEO, Africa Impact Group; Hajara Adeola,
CEO, Lotus Capital; Prateek Shrivastava, co-founder, Beyond Branches
International; Leila Ben Gacem, founder, Blue Fish, Tunis; Henrietta
Onwuegbuezie, academic director, Pan-Atlantic University; Monaem Ben
Lellahom, co-founder, Sustainable Square Think-Tank; Kalu Ojah,
professor of finance, Wits Business School, South Africa; Silvana
Wanjiru, certified public secretary, Capita Registrars, Kenya; Alex
Otti, group managing director, Diamond Bank plc.
In a statement by the conveners, ThistlePraxis Consulting,
“We are excited to be hosting this calibre of speakers for the event.
Not only is financial inclusion relevant, it has increasingly become
more topical. However, during the 4th edition of the AR-CSR, we discuss
the tripartite role of financial inclusion as a trigger for sustainable
development.”
Hence, the 2014 edition will seek to interrogate the
intersection where financial inclusion fosters economic sustainability
and enhances societal benefit.
The financial industry plays a critical role for society
at large: serving individuals, families, businesses, governments, civic
institutions and other stakeholders.
The sector performs indispensable functions such as
enabling financial inclusion, facilitating saving and investment,
providing protection from risks and supporting the creation of new jobs
and enterprises. It is critical that the sector operates to provide
these functions for society in a stable, sustainable way, and increases
awareness of its activities in this area.
The AR-CSR™ platform remains relevant to discuss issues of
Sustainable Corporate and Economic Development, Sustainability,
Corporate Social Responsibility, as well as the enhancement of a
public-private synergy for the attainment of a credible business
environment in Africa, through comparing notes, learning new trends and
providing support for organisations and practitioners alike on the
constantly changing direction of businesses across the world. From a
business perspective, the goal of sustainability is to increase
long-term shareholder and social value, while decreasing industry’s use
of materials and reducing negative impacts on the environment.
Leaders from a variety of sectors from far and wide within
and outside the continent will gather to share their expertise and
experiences on an array of Business and Development sub-topics and try
to identify what is missing: the pooling of the most available heap of
investable funds possible from all nooks and crannies of the economy and
how to channel the pooled funds to attractive production activities,
particularly those of small-to-medium size enterprises which are
established as the main engines of economic growth and job creation
across countries, thus enhancing and increasing societal growth.
ThistlePraxis Consulting is a management consulting firm
that assists organisations in all sectors improve their organisational
effectiveness and business operations to achieve sustainable growth and
profitability through the delivery of innovative solutions, using
effective strategies.
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