- Special side event: Meeting of African Business Associations and businesses to relate how Covid19 has impacted on the work environment including the shift from physical to remote work b) patterns of hybrid work from homes and offices c) digital technology / application infrastructure and skills issuing from Covid19 restrictions and how they are impacting productivity across African countries, and the future of employment and self-employment inside the continent including ecommerce and Mpesa influencing transformation in East Africa.
- Business associations are entry points to the private sector in terms of access to intelligence about national health patterns and resources. So how can business associations building capacity to reverse the fall-out from Covid19, including partnering with the public sector to instigate regulations and frameworks to bridge the gap between genders in the work place, between SMEs and corporations in terms of opportunities and access, and between young business people and older business people fostering innovation and development.
- The role of t Patient groups and Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS TB and Malaria working to increase their capacity to access global funding and international expertise through the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) to better advocate and resist future strains of COVID19 on people affected by chronic diseases.raditional African medicines technology to prevent and treat Covid 19 such as Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and vitamins D and C.