Public Lectures

During the years 2015, 2016 and 2017, the world including Africa connected the dots in engendering a development pathway with climate resilience at the center stage. The year 2018 represents an opportune year for Africa to solidify its quest for sustainable inclusive growth by leveraging on climate actions. What is even more pressing is that 2018 marks the 3rd Year in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Change Agreement. But one question remains: Is Africa making progress, and if not how will Africa achieve all these rosy grandeur agendas?

Africa does not lack ideas or innovations, rather how to convert the known ideas and innovations into full-scale solutions. But there is a winning formula, which is as clear as day. Pockets of success stories across all the sub-regions in Africa demonstrate the potential of this winning formula to simultaneously achieve socio-economic development imperatives alongside climate objectives. But these pockets of success by themselves are a drop in the ocean.

Discussing how this could be utilized to engender an inclusive and sustainable socio-economic growth to achieve multiple SDGs for Africa’s masses under the changing climate is an urgent needed imperative. The Public lecture is premised on how we can Make Africa Work through the Power of Innovative Volunteerism