Future Africa-EU Forum

6 November 2024. Te #FutureAfricaEurope Forum – hosted by the Africa-Europe Foundation (AEF) and Friends of Europe – will bring in resource mobilisation and strategic cooperation to explore strategies and practices for a paradigm shift towards a transformative cross-continental partnership in a context of change.

The Forum builds on a far-reaching year-long process, from the work of AEF multi-stakeholder Strategy Groups and the Future Africa-EU Roundtable of July 2024 to Friends of Europe’s Global Europe programme and in the preamble of the State of Europe 2024. Throughout the year, the AEF community has had a strategic focus on ‘sustainable finance’ as a defining domain of cooperation for a forward-looking Africa-Europe Partnership on equal footing.

Extracts of the programme

9:30 am CET Expand Financing our future – Global tax, illicit financial flows & reimagining domestic resource mobilisation

• Donald Kaberuka - High Representative for the Peace Fund of the Africa Union Commission and former President of the African Development Bank
• Arancha González Laya - Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po and former Spanish minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation 
• Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli - President and CEO of the ONE Campaign
• Simon Mordue - Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS)
• Myriam Ferran - Deputy Director General, European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)

Related:

25 September 2024. ONE Campaign  "Africa at the Forefront of Global Financing Solutions,"  discussed the current financing gap for people and planet and African-led ideas and solutions for the future. The event featured panels and discussions on global health financing and the future of replenishments, Africa's seat at the table in shaping our collective future, and ONE's journey of activism and advocacy as we celebrate our 20th anniversary.