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The World Health Assembly (WHA) is an annual gathering of Ministers of Health, health leaders and delegations from all 194 United Nations Member States. In addition to official WHA plenary and committee meetings, there are also many events held on the sidelines of WHA.

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The 1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2021) comes at a critical time on the continent and in the world. COVID-19 has strained health systems globally, and with limited access to vaccines in Africa, the pandemic has laid bare deep inequities in access to healthcare and scientific innovations. CPHIA will create a unique platform where African researchers, policymakers and stakeholders can share perspectives and research findings in public health, while ushering in a new era of strengthened scientific collaboration and innovation across the continent. This will become an annual conference, hosted by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Conference Tracks
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<li>Track 1 Epidemiology of SARS-COV-2, virology, prevention and clinical</li>
<li>Track 2 Vaccine advocacy, production and distribution</li>
<li>Track 3 A new public health order for Africa in the context of public health emergency</li>
<li>Track 4 Assessing the response to COVID-19 in Africa to prepare for future health threats</li>
<li>Track 5 COVID-19 and equitable health system strengthening in Africa</li>
<li>Track 6 Digitalisation, modelling and analytics to support an effective public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic</li>
<li>Track 7 Agenda 2063: whole-of-society &ndash; private sector, community and leadership &ndash; approach in combatting COVID-19 and other emerging diseases*</li>
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<a href="https://africacdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CPHIA-2021_announcement-flyer_EN_11-Aug-2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out the flyer here.</a>

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1st International Conference on Public Health in Africa - CPHIA 2021

Background
At its 41st Session in February 2010, the United Nations Statistical Commission proposed celebrating 20 October 2010 as World Statistics Day (<a href="https://www.un.org/en/events/statisticsday/decision41-109.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Decision 41/109</a>).

Acknowledging that the production of reliable, timely statistics and indicators of countries’ progress is indispensable for informed policy decisions and monitoring implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, the General Assembly adopted on 3 June 2010 <a href="http://undocs.org/A/RES/64/267&amp;lang=E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution 64/267</a>, which officially designated 20 October 2010 as the <a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first-ever World Statistics Day</a> under the general theme “Celebrating the many achievements of official statistics.”

In 2015, with <a href="https://undocs.org/a/res/69/282" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution 96/282</a>, the General Assembly decided to designate 20 October 2015 as <a href="https://worldstatisticsday.org/blog.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the second World Statistics Day</a> under the general theme “Better data, better lives,” as well as to celebrate World Statistics Day every five years on 20 October.

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<h3>THEME: Scaling-up Development Efforts and Global Partnerships for Africa</h3>
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The African Leadership Magazine is pleased to invite you to the International Forum on African Leadership (IFAL) 2021, a blended meeting of live and virtual events taking place this December to address the issue of scaling-up deelopment efforts and global partnerships.

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African Leadership Magazine

INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON AFRICAN LEADERSHIP (IFAL) 2021

A century has passed since women in Undivided India, now divided into several countries of South Asia, demanded equal rights in property &mdash; especially land, the most important means of production in developing economies. The struggle continued after Independence. Today, the resultant legal reforms have given a vast majority of women legal equality with men in India, and their rights in neighbouring countries&mdash;Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh―have also increased.&nbsp;
However, have changes in the law improved women&rsquo;s situation in practice? Have they closed the gender gap in actual land ownership and trumped restrictive social norms and customs? If not, is there a way forward? &nbsp;
<a href="https://www.binaagarwal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bina Agarwal</a>&nbsp;will address these questions in the 2021 WIDER Annual Lecture, drawing on her three decades of research on the subject. &nbsp;She will be joined by Professor of international affairs at The New School in New York,&nbsp;<a href="https://sakikofukudaparr.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sakiko Fukuda-Parr</a>, as discussant.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?

This event&nbsp;will take place both online and physically in Leiden. All registrees will receive a link to the online platform one day before the start of the event.
The 2021 Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture will be given by&nbsp;Dr Nanjala Nyabola, independent writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya.
<div>African Feminism as Method It is sometimes said that if wealth was the product of hard work then African women would be the wealthiest people in the world. Undoubtedly, African women work, and African womanhood is often inseparable from the idea of labour. Yet African women&rsquo;s work is rarely properly accounted for in the analysis of African politics and society, presented mostly as peripheral to the &ldquo;real work&rdquo; of politics as done by men. African feminisms in turn remain marginal to the central understanding of feminism as a political orientation and an approach to understanding societies, doubly marginalised both relative to men and to other feminisms. Our analysis of what African women do and why they do it remains instrumentalist and focused on their possible impact, rather than unpacking any possible underlying theorietical value that they may hold.</div>
<div>The goal of this presentation is to articulate a possible theoretical framework for African women&rsquo;s work and African feminisms as political science method. Examining key moments in African women&rsquo;s history like the Thuku Resistances of 1922 and the Aba Women&rsquo;s War of 1920, the presentation will outline key characteristics of African women&rsquo;s political organisation, mobilisation and action. Reflecting on key moments in the post-colonial era, the presentation will highlight the new ideas that this framework for African feminism uncovers. Finally, drawing from the author&rsquo;s own research on Kenyan politics in the digital age, the presentation will demonstrate how African feminism was deployed as a political method to situate contemporary African politics in the Digital age. In this way the presentation will argue that African feminism as a political method is a valuable addition the toolkit of studying African societies, and indeed societies around the world.&nbsp;</div>

African Studies Centre, Leiden University

Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Nanjala Nyabola: African Feminism as Method

Are you interested in sustainability, climate change, and engineering? Are you intrigued by renewable energy and curious how we can use it to change the way we harness the sun, wind, and waves?&nbsp;&nbsp;Join this bootcamp to learn more about Sustainable Energy in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region and design your own STEM-based solution for an energy-related issue in your community!
You can expect to increase your understanding of how sustainable energy is empowering girls and women and is improving education, employment, healthcare, well-being and more! You will develop a STEM-centered solution for an energy-related issue in your community. We will also guide you through the process to how to apply for a $500 project award to implement your initiative!
Looking for inspiration? This event will be full of amazing trailblazing women in STEM speakers from the MENA region.&nbsp;The Girl Up MENA STEM for Social Good Bootcamp will run from&nbsp;4:00 - 6:30 PM GST&nbsp;(Gulf Standard Time). This event will be hosted in English, with simultaneous Arabic interpretation.
The event content is mostly geared toward young leaders, ages 13-24 from/living in the UAE and other countries in the MENA region. Space is limited so make sure to reserve your spot! Event attendees will receive a certificate of completion (Hint: this is a great thing to list on future applications)!

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Girl Up MENA Region STEM for Social Good Bootcamp: Sustainable Energy

These Summits seek to harness the power of our advantage through our collaborations with our Banking, IT &amp; Digital Marketing partners, using this advantage to create &amp; deliver solutions that enable us to to make the Lumi Currency work us.
Through these Summits we aim to engage the Lumi Stimulus beneficiaries in discussions that build teams, network and ecosystems for the future of Africa.
So far, we have managed to create platforms that enable members to collaborate, build and transact, all in one safe space. We hope to have you joining us in our upcoming Summits and become part of the Solution.

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Lumi Business Summit

The 2021 edition of the African Economic Conference, jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is planned to be held in Cabo Verde from 2 to 4 December 2021. The theme of this year&rsquo;s conference is &ldquo;Financing Africa&rsquo;s post-COVID-19 development&rdquo;. Considering the multidimensional impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Africa&rsquo;s development, this theme will bring together various stakeholders, including policymakers, the private sector, and researchers, to examine ways and means to expand Africa&rsquo;s development finance sources sustainably. Africa&rsquo;s different financing frameworks should be explored to find innovative solutions, beyond the beaten track, so that Africa does not emerge from the COVID-19 crisis with a real loss of more than a decade of efforts to strengthen its economy and human capital.

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

African Economic Conference 2021

The platform and log in details will be sent to all registered attendees at least 48 hours before the event. Please note that registration closes 30 minutes before the event start time.
Important: If you have previously ever opted out of Eventbrite emails you will not receive the log in details for this event after registering. Please email researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you do not receive a confirmation email. Please check your junk folder before emailing us just in case it is in there.
Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism&nbsp;examines the creative manifestations of black modernism, and explicates how tropicality functioned as a key unifying element in African Diasporic art. In this book, I argue that crucial artworks of the Caribbean modern art movement and of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as performance traditions ought not be viewed as being particular to their geopolitical parameters but rather as part of a larger African Diasporic mission. Given this reality, I contend that a discourse of internationalism existed in the realm of visual art and performance. By examining the art of Aaron Douglas and Wifredo Lam, as well as the performances of Josephine Baker, Maya Angelou and early twentieth-century Carnival masqueraders in Trinidad, I explicate how their representations of tropicalia are reflective of the unique yet complex relationship that black people of these respective regions have with the terrain they inhabit &ndash; land on which many of the enslaved ancestors labored. Despite this traumatic legacy, these creative works nonetheless show how this land is revered by their inhabitants who recognize them for their beauty, not with any intention to transform it but rather to accept it. This ideological heeding to nature should be viewed as an alternative modernity that counters the idea of transforming &lsquo;undeveloped&rsquo; nature for the sake of capitalist expansion. In so doing, there is a particular political enterprise at stake, one that dissociates the land with the history of slavery and thereby reclaiming it. Artists such as Wifredo Lam and Maya Angelou are thus highlighting the internationalist ethos of Pan-Africanism through their visual explorations of landscapes -- terrains which are mostly tropical -- and are therefore geopolitically uniting areas such as the Southern United States and the Caribbean. Ultimately, this book seeks to illuminate the desire for early twentieth-century black Atlantic peoples to engender a sense of belonging to the citizenry, and a particular kind of claim to the land that they inhabit, which speaks to a desire for home.
Samantha A. No&euml;l&nbsp;is an Associate Professor of Art History at Wayne State University. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University. Her research interests revolve around the history of art, visual culture and performance of the Black Diaspora. She has published on black modern and contemporary art and performance in journals such as Small Axe, Third Text, and Art Journal. No&euml;l&rsquo;s book,&nbsp;Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism&nbsp;(Duke University Press, February 2021), offers a thorough investigation of how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century were responding to colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. It privileges the land and how a sense of place is critical in the identity formation of early twentieth-century artists as well as their creative processes. No&euml;l is working on a new book tentatively titled&nbsp;Diasporic Art in the Age of Black Power.&nbsp;This book seeks to examine the impact of the Black Power Movement on visual art as it emerged in the political, historical, and social contexts of the United States of America and the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1960s and 1970s. No&euml;l is the 2021-2022 Smithsonian Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her research has also been supported by The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Moreau Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. She has also received a number of grants and fellowship from Wayne State University.

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History

Visual Arts

African Diasporic Modernism

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Muslim prayer boards combine divine arts with practical purposes. Made of wood and inscribed with a reed pen, they help young Muslims commit to memory Words of God. When the boards are washed for reuse, the water bears blessings that&mdash;if imbibed or applied to afflicted bodies&mdash;can console, heal, and bring hope. The Fowler is pleased to welcome&nbsp;Amira Hassnaoui, who will share her ongoing doctoral research involving people of West African descent in southern Tunisia; and&nbsp;Allen F. Roberts, who will discuss religious practices he and Polly Nooter Roberts (d. 2018) studied for their 2003 Fowler Museum exhibition,&nbsp;A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal.
Vital Matters: Stories of Belief&nbsp;is generously supported by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Amira Hassnaoui&nbsp;was born in Tunis, Tunisia. She received her BA in English Literature and Civilization from the Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis in 2011 and her MA in English Literature and Civilization from the Superior Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis in 2014. She is currently a fourth-year PhD student and a teaching associate in UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, she also serves as Director of Publications at the UCLA Graduate Student Association (GSA); and editor at&nbsp;Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies&mdash;one of the oldest African Studies Journals in North America.
Allen F. Roberts&nbsp;is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His recent projects as a humanistic anthropologist include editing and writing for the Fowler&rsquo;s exhibition book&nbsp;Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths&nbsp;(2019); and his prize-winning monograph&nbsp;A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo&nbsp;(2013). Roberts has co-edited&nbsp;Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba&rsquo;s Presence&nbsp;(2022) dedicated to the memory of Polly Nooter Roberts (d. 2018), Professor of World Arts and Cultures, Consulting Curator of African Art at LACMA, and Deputy Director of the Fowler Museum (1999-2009).
Vital Matters: Stories of Belief:&nbsp;Vital Matters&nbsp;programs explore objects that arouse devotion, awe, or serenity; mediate relationships between human and spiritual realms; and are of vital importance to the cultural heritage of individuals and communities. This series accompanies the new digital initiative&nbsp;Vital Matters: Stories of Belief&ndash;a platform for sharing different perspectives on devotional works at the Fowler Museum.
Image: Artist unknown (Sufi tradition, Senegal); Qur&rsquo;anic boards, 20th century; wood and ink, copper and paint; Fowler Museum at UCLA, X99.56.51; Gift of Dr. Allen Roberts and Dr. Mary (Polly) Roberts

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Literature

Vital Matters: Stories of Belief–Muslim Prayer Boards of West Africa

The&nbsp;MSSA&nbsp;virtual conference&nbsp;2021&nbsp;brings&nbsp;together&nbsp;students&nbsp;from universities and other tertiary institutions&nbsp;with a passion for learning and creativity&nbsp;from&nbsp;all over Africa to learn and build technologies together.&nbsp;The&nbsp;first two days will be 20 deep dive sessions culminating into a virtual&nbsp;hackathon,&nbsp;where participants will get hands on experience with Microsoft technologies.

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Microsoft Student Summit Africa 

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated disruptions to teaching and learning pose a serious threat to approximately 110 million students from pre-primary to higher education in the Middle East and North Africa Region. Even before the pandemic, an estimated 15 million children in the region between the ages of 5-14 were out of school and nearly two-thirds of children in the region were unable to read with proficiency by the age of 10. An entire generation of children is estimated to have been affected by this unprecedented disruption, with potential long-term impacts, including on mental health, well-being, socialization, and employment prospects.
A joint regional report was prepared by a team from the World Bank, UNICEF, and UNESCO, with contributions from UNHCR and UNRWA, under the title: "COVID-19 Learning Losses: Rebuilding Quality Learning for All in MENA". It will be launched virtually will take place on 7 December, 8:00 &ndash; 9:30 am EST (3:00 pm &ndash; 4:30 pm GMT+2). &nbsp;
The report presents:
<ul>
<li>Country responses to mitigate COVID-19&rsquo;s impact on education;</li>
<li>Simulation of the impact of COVID-19 on learning outcomes; and</li>
<li>Recommendations for mitigation of learning loss and ensuring learning for all in MENA in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.</li>
</ul>
The event will feature expert panelists from across the region who will discuss the findings in the report and the actions that governments can take to help recover learning losses and ensure quality education for all.

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COVID-19 Learning Losses: Rebuilding Quality Learning for All in MENA

Please join the Wilson Center Africa Program for the inaugural Biennial Lecture and Dialogue of the Brown Capital Management Africa Forum on December 14, 2021 featuring H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat.
The AfCFTA is poised to transform Africa into the largest free trade zone in the world, connecting a market of more than 1.2 billion people and a combined GDP of $3.4 trillion (AfCFTA Secretariat). The agreement aims to boost intra-African trade and promote sustainable development across the continent by reducing tariff and non-tariff barriers, including customs delays and high trading costs, thus increasing competitiveness and resilience of African markets. Its impact will reach far beyond Africa into the global trade regime.
On January 1, 2021, trading commenced under the AfCFTA. Implementation of the agreement is ongoing. For example, in September 2021 the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS)&mdash;a tool to facilitate and simplify cross-border transactions&mdash;was rolled out, and as of October 2021, 38 of 54 signatories have ratified the agreement with three more countries preparing to do so soon.
This event will assess the significance and status of the AfCFTA; discuss key challenges in the road ahead; and, more importantly, highlight opportunities AfCFTA presents for Africa and its international partners to boost trade and investment and foster sustainable economic growth.

Wilson Center

International Governance

Biennial Lecture and Dialogue of the Brown Capital Management Africa Forum

Africa Oil &amp; Power’s top priority remains to keep our people, partners, and clients safe. Therefore, the dates of our scheduled events are subject to change as we monitor the global progress of COVID-19. Please check our website for updates and for your safety, click here to read our COVID-19 Event Guidelines.

Africa Oil &amp; Power (AOP) is returning to Cape Town for its fifth edition, uniting Africa’s investors and leaders in the oil and gas, power, and downstream industries. For the first time, AOP 2021 will invite global attendees to participate via a new virtual format, alongside the in-person conference and host the Africa Renewables Forum, the Africa LNG Forum, and the Energy Finance Forum.

Join us for three days of deal-making and discussions focused on Africa’s energy transition, industrialization, regional business, and economic transformation, under the theme #InvestWithoutBoundaries. The conference enjoys the partnership and endorsement of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy of South Africa, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the South African Oil &amp; Gas Alliance and the South Africa-China Economic and Trade Association.

Africa Oil &amp; Power 2021 includes three co-hosted events:

AFRICA LNG FORUM
The Africa LNG Forum, an integrated part of AOP 2021, is Africa’s dedicated gas and LNG event. With Africa’s LNG scene evolving at a rapid pace, the forum will explore the intra-African trade of LNG, new entrants into the LNG market including Mozambique and Senegal, as well as the investment fundamentals of floating LNG and mega projects.

AFRICA RENEWABLES FORUM
The Africa Renewables Forum will explore the synergies between traditional energy and renewable energy, highlighting different technologies, projects and African markets. It will also focus on what Africa’s energy transition looks like in South Africa and other markets, the interface between energy, employment and the economy, and how oil and gas companies are getting involved in the renewable energy industry.

ENERGY FINANCE FORUM
The Energy Finance Forum gives us a close-up on the continental investment environment in 2021, Africa’s competitiveness, new projects and the investors making them happen, and what the investment climate looks like in 2021 and beyond.

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Affordable &amp; clean energy

Africa Oil & Power 2021

The Global Water Summit is the flagship water sector event of the year, renowned for its industry-leading agenda and the high concentration of water sector executives that attend each year. It is an unmatched networking and strategy development opportunity for our executive-level attendees, but we don’t just want the Global Water Summit to be the greatest annual event in the international water industry, we want it to be the best in every category of water event:

WATER FINANCE
When we launched the Global Water Summit 13 years ago, talking about money was almost taboo. We took the view that if this industry was ever going to grow, water and money would have to find a place to meet and the conversation has been growing ever since.

WATER PROJECTS
We aim to showcase water and wastewater projects with a combined value of $100 billion at the Global Water Summit. It means that whatever your place in the supply chain there is nowhere in the world you can go for two days and get a better ROI.

WATER STRATEGY
Global Water Intelligence is the house journal of the C-Suite of the water industry. The discussion comes to life at the Global Water Summit. It is where we bring together the people who matter most to discuss the issues that matter most.

WATER TECHNOLOGY
Three things make the Global Water Summit stand out as the premiere event for water technology: the unparalleled global expertise we bring to selecting technologies to present, the space we give to the voice of the customer in framing technology needs, and the audience of investors, utility leaders, corporate water users and senior executives from across the supply chain.

UTILITY INNOVATION
Through hosting the Leading Utilities of the World initiative at the Summit we have created a unique global platform for sharing experience from the top global performers in the water sector. It is an inspiration for all.

CORPORATE WATER STRATEGY
Businesses are under growing pressure to do better with water, and there are plenty of venues which discuss this. The Global Water Summit is the only one which provides the practical solutions.

WASTEWATER AND THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
This is the sector of the water industry which is changing fastest in terms of technologies, business models, investment and opportunity. The Global Water Summit has the most compelling agenda for the sector.

DESALINATION AND WATER REUSE
Unconventional water resources have been at the heart of Global Water Intelligence’s coverage for nearly two decades. No one has the knowledge or connections to put on a better event for the desalination and reuse community.

DIGITAL WATER
It is not enough to be bullish about water’s digital future. We have to address the realities of water’s digital present. They are not pleasant. But we are committed to using the Global Water Summit to change that. Join us in making it work.

WATER AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Adaptation to the growing extremes of floods and droughts is perhaps the greatest water challenge of the age. At this year’s Global Water Summit we bring together water leaders from the frontiers of climate change and the innovators who have the solutions.

SDG 6 FOR WATER AND SANITATION
We need to double the level of investment in water and wastewater services in three years if we are to meet the 2030 target for access to safe water and sanitation. Delivering a strategy for doing that is the challenge we have set for this year’s summit, and all the key players will be there to meet it.

Water Meets Money

Water Sanitation &amp; Hygiene

Global Water Summit 2022

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