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Session

Day 1

D1
10 Dec 2024, 08:30
In-Person
Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

Safari Park Hotel

Safari Park Hotel & Casino P.O. Box 45038 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya

Conveners

Day 1 - Driving higher education excellence and inclusion for the Africa of tomorrow: Perspectives from regional and international partners

  • El Hadj Hussein TAPILY (Vice President for West Africa, All-Africa Students Union (AASU))
  • Habtamu Tekleselasie (Technology, Climate Change, and Natural Resource Management Division (TCND))
  • Dorcas Beryl Otieno (UNESCO Chairholder in Entrepreneurship Education for Sustainable Development, Kenyatta University)
  • James Mwangi (Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Equity Group Holdings Plc)
  • Martha Phiri (Director, Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development Division, African Development Bank)

Day 1 - Round Table 1: “Rethinking Higher Education in Africa for a Sustainable Future” (UNECA)

  • Ropafadzo Sandra Shoko (Youth Entrepreneur, Lawyer Science and Technology Incubation Hub Admin, Startups Bea, and Founder of NPO Mentor Me Please)
  • Denis Mwighusa (Executive Director of the Africa Research Institute for AI (ARIFA))
  • Mactar Seck (Chief of Section – Innovation and Technology, UNECA)
  • Gaspard Banyankimbona (Inter-University Council for Eastern Africa (IUCEA))
  • Josephine Ulimwengu (Chief, Systems-Wide Coherence and Quality Assurance Section, UNECA)

Day 1 - Round Table 2: Supporting student and academic mobility and inter-university cooperation within the higher education sector across Africa (Campus Africa Pillar 2)

  • Armand Abanda (Chaire UNESCO « Partenariat stratégique et institutionnel pour l'accès des jeunes et des femmes aux technologies de l’information et de la communication en Afrique Centrale »)
  • Everlyn Anyal Musa (Programme Director, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program e-Learning Initiative Project)
  • JOUHAINA BENBOUBAKER EP GHERIB (Chaire UNESCO sur l’enseignement supérieur pour le développement durable en Afrique, University of Manouba, Tunisia)
  • Dominique Dumet (Conseillère scientifique pour l'Afrique - Scientific Adviser for Africa: l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD))

Day 1 - Round Table 3: Solutions, Innovations and Emerging Practices in Higher Technical Education (Campus Africa Pillar 3)

  • Gideon Murenga (Senior TVET and Labour Markets Advisor - Youth Employment and Vocational Training at GIZ)
  • Doreen Irungu (MentorMatch, Winner of TechWomen 2024)
  • Rino Pugliano (Nuove technologie della vita Academy (ITS))
  • Cherifa Abdelbaki (UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development and Resilience: Addressing Climate Change, Water Security, Food Sustainability, and Energy Resilience (SUDARE), University of Tlemcen,)
  • Daniel Omanyo

Day 1 - Round Table 4: The Role of Data (and Capacity Needs) in the Transformation of Africa’s Higher Education Systems

  • Gaspard Banyankimbona (Inter-University Council for Eastern Africa (IUCEA))
  • Khalil Bahloul (IIEP-Dakar)
  • Magdaline Chepkemoi (Co-Founder, EldoHub)
  • Fatouma Sissoko (Statistician, African Centre for Statistics Addis Ababa)
  • Jim Occiti (Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General and Director of Institutional Learning and Knowledge Management, Organization of Southern Cooperation (OSC))

Day 1 - Round Table 5: The Addis Convention – Ensuring the recognition of qualifications and robust quality assurance mechanisms

  • Romualdo Correia (Director General of Higher Education, Cabo Verde)
  • Alice Kande (Director-General of the Kenya National Qualifications Authority (KNQA))
  • Mercy Mwiinga Ngoma (Head of the Zambian Qualifications Authority)
  • Lamine Gueye (Head of ANAQ-Sup Senegal and President of the Convention Committee, President of Réseau Africain Francophone des Agences Nationales d’Assurance Qualité (RAFANAQ), representative of the African Quality Assurance Network (AfriQAN).)

Day 1 - Messages from Africa’s Youth about the Education They Want

  • Leticia Ahirirwe (Student Representative - Mbarara University of Science and Technology)

Day 1 - Close of Day 1

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Day 1 - Opening of the Forum

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Day 1 - Panel discussion: Ministers of Higher Education

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