Oct 03, 2017 | News

NEPAD Agency events at Africa Week 2017: 16 - 20 October 2017 at the UN Headquarters, New York

Events will include:

Monday, 16 October 2017, (10:00am – 01:00pm) : High-Level Inaugural Event - Supporting an Integrated, Prosperous, People-Centred and Peaceful Africa: Towards the Implementation of Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Tuesday, 17 October 2017, (10:00am – 01:00pm) : High-Level Event - Financing Africa's infrastructure and agricultural development: inclusive growth for economic transformation

Tuesday, 17 October 2017, (14:45 – 17:30) : Building public health delivery systems that support Africa’s industrialization, with two main themes, namely, “Transforming Africa’s blossoming pharmaceutical Industry’ and “Fighting Tuberculosis and other Occupational Lung Diseases in the Mining Industry”

Wednesday, 18 October 2017, (09:00am – 11:30am): MoveAfrica - Role of development community and private sector investment for easy movement of humanitarian goods. To RSVP, send an email to Kisa Nkhoma: Kisan@nepad.org

Wednesday, 18 October 2017, (03:00pm – 06:00pm) : Briefing by Africa’s Regional Economic Communities to UN Member States and UN system entities - Regional and economic integration in Africa: how to effectively involve Africa’s youth across national borders

Thursday, 19 October 2017, (10:00am – 01:00pm) : High-Level Event - Addressing the climate change - migration nexus and its implications for peace and security in Africa

Thursday, 19 October 2017, (03:00pm – 04:30pm) : Launch of NEPAD Agency publications - The Africa We Want: showcasing NEPAD publications to the media and presentation to the UN Library. Media are invited to attend this event for a briefing with Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the NEPAD Agency. To RSVP, send an email to Mwanja Ng'anjo: Mwanjan@nepad.org