Click on the links below to read the presentations of speakers at the First Africa Forum on STI for Youth Employment, Human Capital Development and Inclusive Growth (1-3 april 2012)

1 April 2012

Opening remarks

• Aida Opoku-Mensah
  Director, ICT, Science and Technology Division
  United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
• Gretchen Kalonji
  Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
• Dzingai Mutumbuka
  President, Association for the Development of Education in Africa
• Kamal Elkheshen
  Vice President
  African Development Bank (AfDB)

2 April 2012

• Ginette Nzau-Muteta
  Resident Representative to Burkina Faso and AfDB Coordinator of the AfDB, AU, ECA, ILO joint Initiative on Youth Employment
  African Development Bank (AfDB)

3 April 2012

Ministerial Conference Opening Speeches

• Irina Bokova
  Director-General of UNESCO
  (bilingual French/english)

Ministerial Conference Panel on Financing Mechanisms Investments for the development of Africa

• Riadh Sifaoui
  TEKERE Consulting

  Interview

• Minister for Scientific Research and Innovation from the Republic of Burkina Faso

• Why this Forum?
• Objectives
• Key issues for debate
• Organizers
• Partners
• Participants
• Expected outcome
• Format of the Forum

Related documents

• Forum agenda
• Concept note
• Resources
• Media advisory
• Webcast
• Nairobi Declaration
• Media coverage of the forum
• Press release