The world's first social impact conference will be held in Africa for the second year in a row.
The Sterling One Foundation announced Tuesday that the second Africa Social Impact Summit will be held in Lagos, Nigeria, between August 2023 and August 2024, the Guardian reports.
"This year's edition will focus on the theme 'Global Vision, Local Action: Repositioning The African Development Ecosystem For Sustainable Outcomes,'" the foundation said in a statement.
"It is easier to resolve issues of unstructured governance and accountability issues if development is built across the entire civil society, with all players involved towards the same goal," the foundation's CEO, Olapeju Ibekwe, said in a statement.
The first summit, held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in August 2017, brought together more than 3,000 delegates from 66 countries to discuss solutions to some of Africa's most pressing problems.
The theme for this year's summit is "Local Action: Repositioning The African Development Ecosystem For Sustainable Outcomes," and Ibekwe said it will focus on "what African sector leaders are currently doing, and finding ways to improve on what African sector leaders are currently doing, and finding ways to make impact investment on the continent more scalable and catalytic," Business Insider reports.
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