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AFRICA INNOVATES
AFRICA
THE NEXT FRONTIER
OF DEVELOPMENT
LO O K I N G TO T H E F U T U R E :
A F R I C A N I N F LU E N C E R S FO R D E V E LO P M E N T ( A I 4 D E V )
The African Influencers for Development (AI4Dev) harnesses Africa’s creative, intellectual and entrepreneurial
energy for Africa’s development through a powerful
coalition of current and future African influencers in business, academia and the arts. Together RBA and its partners have come together on the platform of AI4Dev to
co-create and co-implement innovative solutions which
can accelerate Africa’s transformation and support the
SDG agenda. AI4Dev provides business leaders with a
platform for collaborative learning, coordinated strategy
and execution, and mutual accountability.
It is also a commitment by RBA to work with African
private sector and other partners to create and support
future African champions from within Africa’s young and
dynamic population.
On the 22nd of September 2019, on the margins of the
74th UN General Assembly at the UN Headquarters,
the UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA) and Africa’s
private sector and academia a bold new platform to
bring Africans together in partnerships to help drive the
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continent’s development.
A UNDP first, this is a blueprint for private sector engagement in development action through a coalition
with UNDP. With offices in 45 countries and over 4000
staff, UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa is the UNDP’s
largest bureau in the UN agency mandated to support
countries in implementing the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
This [AI4Dev] initiative proves that
Africa’s rapidly evolving
development challenges can be
met by upscaling Africa’s own
innovative solutions.
Ms. Amina Mohammed,
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
