Why should you attend?

Breakfast Dialogue has been running since 2017 and keeps getting better each year. This conference emerges out of the growing emphasis for all sector players to pay more attention to performance driven sustainability initiatives in the work they do.

The event is designed to:

1. Spur actions to adapt current strategies that solve social development challenges with the goal of reassessing and redefining more effective plans to achieve future goals.

2. Drive multilateral collection among diverse stakeholders towards addressing Africa's most critical social issues.

3.Unleash creativity and innovation towards tackling persistent development challenges in Africa.

4.Encourage social innovation between individuals and institutions to birth new initiatives and partnerships for catalyzed growth

5.Support development practitioners and leaders with the knowledge required to build sustainable institutions with lasting change

Who should attend?

The conference brings together sector leaders from across Africa who are collaborating to accelerate social impact. This year, we welcome stakeholders from public, private and social such as:

• Head of Ministries

• Managing Directors

• NGO Officers

• Heads of department / Unit heads

• Chief Executive Officers

• Policy and Decision makers

• Chief Technology officers

• Development Economists

• Business Development Managers

Innovative Approach to Socio-Economic Development

Africa’s experimentation with Structural Adjustment Programs and other development initiatives has failed to effectively address economic problems. This discussion will explore a variety of potential contributions of innovation to economic development. Innovation helps to drive economic growth and address socio-economic challenges such as poverty. This discourse will investigate how different strategies which support innovation have to be adapted to the specific conditions of emerging and developing countries in Africa. There is a need for strategic transformative reforms in governance structures, intra-Africa cooperation, and development pathways that enhance transitions towards wealth creation. The discussion will present a cross-sectoral approach to achieving development as a continent.

The Future of Work in Africa- Preparing Emerging Leaders

The structural transformation and progress in terms of sustainable development have been limited in Africa. The growth process has neither been inclusive nor equitable. It has also not been transformational enough to respond to challenges ushered by external and internal economic shocks, high unemployment rates, rapid urbanization, and changing demographic patterns largely characterized by a youth bulge. Africa is home to more than 1 billion people, and almost 60% of the population in 2019 is under the age of 25, making Africa the world’s youngest continent. Africa is a diverse continent offering human and natural resources that have the potential to yield inclusive growth and wipe out poverty in the region, enabling Africans across the continent to live healthier and more prosperous lives. With the world’s largest free trade area and a 1.2 billion-person market, the continent is creating an entirely new development path, harnessing the potential of its resources and people. It is the responsibility of all sectors to collaborate on strategies that can surmount the challenge of poverty, inequality, and unemployment.

Leave No one behind: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The call for a ‘more inclusive’ development trajectory originates in the realization that, despite high economic growth over the first decade of the 2000s, large groups of people remain excluded from this greater prosperity. This panel discussion will look at three aspects of inequalities and the opportunities available for driving inclusive strategies for optimal development- Gender inequality, inequalities in people living with disabilities and financial inclusion. In the continuous efforts to advance development of Africa, it is important for interventions and strategies to cut across various demography.