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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
Updating Taking Action – the UK’s strategy for tackling AIDS in the developing world
As part of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) consultation on its strategy to tackle HIV/AIDS, Business Action for Africa submitted a statement highlighting the important role of the private sector: “It is now widely recognised that the involvement of business is critical in helping to scale up effective responses to the epidemic, especially in countries where the public health sector faces severe resource constraints. Indeed, a number of businesses have played a catalytic role, through workplace programmes and in their local communities, in helping to stimulate more effective national responses to the epidemic. This was clearly the case, for example, in South Africa where business took the lead in the provision of anti-retrovirals in advance of the public health service”.
