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Africa Think Tank Summit 2019

From

24
9:00 am April 2019

To

26
6:00 pm April 2019

Mr. Jalal Abdellatif, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South and Head of Governance and Human Security Cluster at the UNECA, will be speaking at the 2019 Africa Think Tank Summit taking place on April 24-26, 2019. Mr. Abdellatif will speak in the Working Session entitled “Sharing experiences on how to tackle implementation challenges at the regional level”. 

The 2019 Africa Think Tank Summit is organized by the African Capacity Building Foundation in partnership with the Government of Kenya, the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) together with various partners. It aims at proposing strategies and actionable recommendations for think tanks to meaningfully contribute to tackling policy implementation challenges within the context of Africa’s vision as reflected in Agenda 2063 and the SDGs, through sharing knowledge and country case studies on good practices in ensuring successful implementation of policies and strategies.


This event is taking place in Nairobi, Kenya. 

Speakers
Jalal Abdel-Latif
Ethiopia
Senior Fellow
Jalal Abdel-Latif is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South and Senior Social Policy Advisor, Gender and Poverty, Social Policy Division, UNECA. Jalal has over 25 years of professional experience in the areas of corporate social responsibility, civic engagement, grant making, project design and enhancing the capacities of non-profit organizations. He began his career as researcher and capacity analyst at UCLA African studies center, before working as Grants manager for USA for Africa (the We Are the World project) in California. He was also a co-founder and CEO of Inter-Africa Group, a regional think thank.  He was previously appointed by the late Prime Minister of Ethiopia to serve on the Ethiopian Telecommunications Board of Directors to assist in its modernization ...