ANIMA International Webinar Series

ANIMA organizes MEET Africa a webinar on the national identification and engagement strategies of African Diaspora entrepreneurs.

The webinar will give voice to African actors who are working to mobilize and support diaspora entrepreneurs in their country.

Here are some of the questions that will be addressed:

• Which diaspora entrepreneurs are targeted by strategies from Africa?
• What strategies and services are in place to mobilize investment and skills through the support of the African diaspora?
• How to capture the interest of top expatriate talent to seize growth opportunities in their home countries?
• How to access these services? Where to find the information?

Who is involved?

Diaspora entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs who have links to Africa and who wish to develop their activities on the continent, to know the strategies in different countries to accompany them. The support structures of entrepreneurs in Africa, whether public or private, who want to know the strategies put in place by their peers in the neighboring countries.

What is the context?

The widespread recognition of the role of diasporas in economic development and positive development has resulted in a proliferation of policies and programs aimed at mobilizing the interest and resources of emigrants and their descendants.

In West and Central Africa, about half of the countries have developed or have initiated the development of national diaspora engagement strategies to place the migrant (and its progeny) at the heart of their economic and human. (Foreign Direct Investment) in China is from the Chinese diaspora; Indian diasporas in the United States have played a key role in the construction of the computer industry in India, creating a second one. Silicon Valley ” In their country, to name just a few examples of known success. The same applies to actors in the African diaspora.