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Business Action for Africa advocates for the policies needed to drive growth and wealth creation in Africa, and to facilitate business engagement in tackling development issues.
Business has a critical role to play in accelerating growth and wealth creation in Africa. We believe that the greatest contribution business can make is by doing good business: generating jobs and economic opportunities, innovative goods and services, and the tax revenues needed to fund public services. Businesses are increasingly innovating around commercially viable business models that bring enhanced development impacts.
Governments, donors and civil society organisations are important partners in building an enabling environment for businesses of all sizes, and ensuring poor people are able to access the economic opportunities that are generated.
Activities
From Crisis to Opportunity: Harnessing the Power of Business to Sustain Momentum towards the MDGs
The 2009 global economic and financial crisis had severe implications for the economic and social progress made across Sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time it presented an opportunity to stimulate new thinking on how to generate innovative and more sustainable ways to support the region’s growth and development.
Business Action for Africa invited a wide range of leading thinkers from business, government and the NGO community both international and from Africa to share their views on how to ensure the private sector continues to act as the engine room of growth and development, and the type of policies required to help businesses to manage and innovate through the crisis.
