KENYA: Planned Conference on Entrepreneurship to Focus on “Transformative Social Innovations” in Africa
Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA
The 6th Annual African Conference on Entrepreneurship (AACOSE) scheduled for early next month to be held at Tangaza University College (TUC) a Kenya-based Catholic Institution of higher learning, is expected to focus on transformative social innovations in Africa.
In a clip advertising the upcoming entrepreneurship conference that aims to build a collaborative ecosystem and sustain the change maker movement momentum for developed, just, peaceful and thriving Africa, the Director for the Institute for Social Transformation at TUC, Br. Jonas Yawovi Dzinekou underscored that social entrepreneurship is the future of the African continent.
According to Br. Jonas Yawovi Dzinekou MCCJ, the conference is “a place to help the players engage in discussions that pertain to what is happening in Africa, to learn from each other, combine theory and practice, tell their own story of the changes that they are creating, to co-create and to innovate.”
Themed “Systems Change: Transformative Social Innovations,” the thematic areas for discussions during the two-day conference to be held from 10-11th May, will delve around human capital and capacity diversity-inclusion (youth, women, PWDs), funding and finance-climate change, legal policy framework-social enterprises, Network-Faith inspired change making, Market- Agriculture and food security.
The Pan-African gathering will be convened by TUC in collaboration with an organization that has supported the field of social entrepreneurship for the last four decades named Ashoka East Africa.
The Regional Director of Ashoka East Africa, Mr. Vincent Otieno Odhiambo said in the advertisement clip that partnership with TUC in the 6th AACOSE “Is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to connect with potential funders and also for funders to find the most innovative solution that they can support.”
The conference will bring together social entrepreneurs, policy makers, influencers, researchers and key enablers from diverse ecosystems.
