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EAST AFRICA SOCIAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2016

By John Masembe

Tue Dec 6, 14:00 - Tue Dec 6, 17:00

Golf Course Hotel

ABOUT

The theme of this year’s conference is Reaching Sustainable Development Goals in East Africa through Social Business. Together with our partners Yunus Social Business Uganda aims to:

  • Launch Yunus Social Business East Africa Expansion Program with a network of partners and a pipeline of high impact social businesses.
  • Offer a platform for sharing best practices, networking and match-making among investors, social business support organizations and social entrepreneurs across East Africa region.
  • Demonstrate the power of social business as an innovative approach to meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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    The conference taking place on Tuesday, 6th December 2016 at Golf Course hotel will bring together 100 social entrepreneurs and students with aim of promoting business as a sustainable solution to increasing access to affordable health care, creating quality employment for youth and women, averting carbon emission, and generally empowering economically marginalized people to create sustainable incomes. 

    The conference will be opened by the Principal, Makerere University Business School, Prof. Waswa Balunywa. The Key Note Speaker at the Conference shall be Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, Chairman and Co-founder of Yunus Social Business Global Initiatives Bang. Prof Yunus is of Bangladeshi origin and has dedicated his life to actively reduce poverty, create employment and avert carbon emission in the world. He pioneered the birth of micro-finance and has so far created more than 40 successful social businesses, including Grameen Bank.