The 2nd Africa Governance, Leadership and Management Convention 2011

The African Governance, Leadership and Management Convention 2011 was planned as an assembly of the top most leaders and minds in the triad of governance, leadership and management in Africa. The convention was conceived as a private sector driven initiative to generate dialogue among key private sector players, while at the same time giving the private sector on the continent a forum in which to collectively dialogue with public sector leaders and policy makers on pertinent issues touching on governance, leadership and management in the continent.

The Mombasa convention was built around the theme of Africa claiming the 2nd decade of the 21st Century. This theme was encapsulated in the rhetorical question, ’Can Africa claim the next Decade?’

The Convention was graced by leading African statesmen including the former Nigeria Head of State, H.E Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki and Abudulaye Wade of Senegal, who led the continent in the clarion call of the African Renaissance. They were joined by the World Bank President James Wolfenson and IMF Chief Executive, Horst Kohler, to energize the continent in the hope that the 21st Century was Africa’s for the taking, provided that Africa did the right things.

The conveners of the forum, The Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) and the Africa Leadership Forum were committed to bringing together leading minds to assemble around the riddle of Governance, Leadership and management in both the public and private sectors in Africa in order to begin claiming the 21st Century as a continent.

The inaugural meeting enjoyed an insightful keynote address by H.E Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Other speakers included Kenya’s Vice President , H.E Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka; Aenas Chuma- UNDP Resident Representative to Kenya; Erastus Mwencha- African Union Vice President and an array of other luminary and perceptive minds.

The agenda under discussion was as below:

TOPICS FOR DELIBERATION

1)Governance, Conflict Management and Nation Building in Africa:

• The challenges of Governance in Africa
• Peer review mechanism in Africa: Challenges and opportunities
• Managing Elections and Multiparty Democracy in Africa
• Africa Traditional conflict resolution and peace building vs. modern conflict resolution methods in perspective

2)Millennium Development Goals, Beyond the year 2015:

• Towards meaningful Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa
• Food security, Livelihoods and insecurity in pastoral communities
• The private sector and Millennium Development Goals
• Global co-operation: Examining the 8th millennium Development goal in Africa

3)Gender and Development:

• Revisiting the Beijing Platform
• Beyond numbers in Gender and Development indices in Africa
• African women in Armed Conflict: addressing the dilemma of the Woman as a victim and the battleground
• HIV/AIDS and Human Development in Africa

4)Infrastructure, Information and Finance:

• Media and Human Development in Africa after the Cold War
• The role of the African Development Bank in finance and Infrastructure
• Science Technology and Innovation in Africa in the 21st Century
• The challenge of Credit financing and Micro finance in Africa
• Population management in Africa in the 21st Century

5)Trade and Regional Integration:

• China in Africa: Towards a constructive Engagement
• The Challenge of Excellence in business organizations in Africa
• Building common markets for Africa: overcoming the barriers
• Climate change and Development:challenges and opportunities in Africa

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