Meet the Ambassadors is an initiative to connect AfricaBerlin Network ambassadors and general community members to discuss industry-related trends and insights. In this first session, the ambassadors would share the exciting projects they are currently pursuing in their respective sectors and ecosystems, including emerging and available opportunities for collaboration.

Date: Tuesday, February 21

Set to be released on 8 September The 2021/22 Human Development Report (HDR), “Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World,” is the final installment in a trilogy of reports.

Learn from Utkarsh Awasthi, Global Head, Customer Marketing for Growth at Freshworks, how to set up a Customer Success Strategy

The Gerhart Center is hosting the webinar session titled Is Development Practice Delivering?

by Alan Fowler, honorary professor of African Philanthropy at the Wits Business School

جلسة تعريفية لبرنامج تسريع الأعمال “ابتكار” لدعم ريادة الأعمال الزراعية

هتتعرف اكتر على أهداف البرنامج وأهم المزايا التي يقدمها لرائدات ورواد الأعمال في قطاع الزراعة من خلال الجلسة

The Gerhart Center is hosting the webinar session titled "SOCIAL SCALE UP, WHY NOT?" by Guillermo Jaime, Mexican Social Entrepreneur, founder and president of Social Global Leaders, to learn how to make companies a Social Scale Up

The Gerhart Center is hosting the webinar session titled "Community Science: A Pathway for Advancing Environmental and Climate Justice," featuring Sacoby Wilson, associate professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland-College Park

Willard W. Brown International Business Leadership is hosting Webinar in collaboration with AUC Venture Lab titled "New Systems Thinking for Effective Managers" featuring Prashun Dutta, The webinar is moderated by Hamed Shamma, associate professor of marketing and BP Endowed chair of management at AUC School of Business.

The Gerhart Center is hosting the webinar session titled Delivering the COP26 Universities Network: Lessons and Legacy featuring Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London.

This Gerhart Center Webinar Series titled The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change featuring Cynthia Rayner, researcher, writer, and lecturer affiliated with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.

This Gerhart Center Webinar Series session titled ‘Systems Thinking for Social Change’ will feature David Peter Stroh, author of ‘Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide for Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results’.

Attend the webinar session of Nick Robins, a Professor in Practice in Sustainable Finance at Grantham Research Institute, to learn more about the correlation between climate action and social inclusion to form the Just Transition by Gerhart Center.

The Public Policy HUB In collaboration with Oxfam and the Danish- Arab Partnership Programme Programme will present some discussions and policy papers dissemination on Human Capital Management in Startups in Egypt, and the effect of COVID19 on them.

Bill Drayton will discuss how to gain critical change-making skills and explain the change-making process (identifying patterns/ spot needs). He will also delve into why these skills need to be learned at a young age and debate the possibility of re-training older generations.

Gerhart Center will discuss with African philanthropist and social entrepreneur Tsitsi Masiyiwa and the APF-Bridgespan author team regarding the vital role and endless future potential of African philanthropy in supporting African NGOs.

Lev Plaves Director of Investments at Kiva, the world’s largest crowdfunding platform for social good. will speak about Kiva's work in the Middle East, specifically on how the unique nature of their crowdfunding platform has helped catalyze innovation in partnership with microfinance institutions in the region.

Aunnie Patton Power

founder of Intelligent Impact, an innovative finance advisory firm and a university lecturer on Innovative Finance.

will be presenting her recently published book titled "Adventure Finance." This book aims to shift the conversation about startup funding and help founders and funders widen the spectrum of "mainstream" investment options to make the venture financing world more inclusive and purpose-driven.

This webinar will explore through the perspectives of the leaders of three organizations the important role social enterprises can play and the challenges they face in improving access to basic healthcare at the base of the income pyramid.

Dahlia Zayed is the founder of FWD Consultancy. She is a 20yrs+ expert in Brand and Retail strategy across developing markets. She has worked on the likes of Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka, Trident, TUC, Arafa, Blu tech, Mori, Gourmet, Elano, The Grocer, and Tang to name a few. She is a public speaker on brand and a mentor in Founder Institute- Egypt chapter and Cherie Blair organization in the UK.

Register now, limited spots available!

"How to Become an Angel Investor and Support Egypt’s Booming Startups?" is a series of webinars launched by GIZ Egypt in partnership with Startups Without Borders. This series of webinars offer an opportunity to learn about Egypt's high-potential startups and support them through mentorship or angel investment.

“Education for Sustainable Development” Webinar.

The event seeks to introduce ESD as a concept and discuss how it can address the interconnected global challenges the world is currently facing.

Do not miss the chance to meet and learn from our ESD expert from the Swedish University of Agriculture & the University of Nicosia.

The event details will be posted through the event details section, so stay tuned.

Places are limited so please make sure to register to book your spot.

Register here: https://forms.gle/Q634QPysFYkbcWaJ8

This session will be in English.

During the session, Eccles will touch on the history of sustainability reporting, and the role of investors when it comes to sustainability. He will outline the first steps needed towards convergence and harmonization by NGOs while discussing the current state of play by governments.

A special presentation and discussion about the World Bank’s latest Middle East and North Africa Economic Update, a twice-yearly forecast that looks at growth prospects for the region titled, Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID.

The Summit connects Ashoka’s vast community of social innovators, changemakers and leaders from business and philanthropy to discover new ideas and collaborate on strategies for lasting social change.

The purpose of the webinar is to further discuss the impact of the pandemic on the nonprofit sector particularly those operating in fields deemed “sensitive” such as SGBV and protection. Furthermore, the webinar will push the audience to imagine how the nonprofit sector will operate following the pandemic through multiple proposed scenarios.