The Summit

Global Investment Summits are pleased to announce the 5th annual Humanitarian Development Summit, organised to bring key decision makers in the aid and development community together with government policy-makers, foreign investors and partnering contractors looking to fulfil development objectives and oversee the successful execution of ongoing and incipient projects and programmes.

As in previous years, we look forward to welcoming leading development and aid practitioners from various UN agencies, International and Multilateral Organisations and NGOs dedicated to the establishment of successful strategic partnerships with government and private sector representatives.

It is our pleasure to extend an invitation to organisations and individuals active in relevant sectors, such as healthcare, logistics, ICT, agricultural development, emergency response and peacekeeping, to attend the Summit with a view to benefiting from its unique networking structure emphasising one-to-one discussions and private consultations.

The Objectives

The Unique Format

The summit benefits from a proven event model that combines plenary addresses on key areas with the opportunity for private discussions between attending companies and the various international delegations in attendance.

This format is aimed at ensuring that attending companies have the opportunity to meet with leading stakeholders, essentially making for a mutually beneficial multi-lateral relations forum:

█ Both mornings will see senior figures outline priority sectors in need of investment and
discussing the opportunities that this will present
█ The afternoons will see the summit venue converted from a theatre-style format to a series
of roundtables, where leading officials will take private consultations with attending
contractors and investors
█ Prior to the summit, confirmed sponsors and delegates will have the opportunity to pre
schedule meetings with those individuals, ministries, agencies and organisations most
relevant to their core business activities
█ Limited sponsorship and branding opportunities will be available to the most suitable global
operators

KEY SECTORS

Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Health is among the world’s foremost development concerns as a prerequisite to socioeconomic development and poverty alleviation. With just 11% of the world’s population, Africa is plagued by approximately 24% of the global disease burden, including a host of preventable and treatable diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. According to a recent report from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, there exists tremendous potential for private investment in Africa, with 60% of healthcare financing presently coming from private sources in Africa.

Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)

The significance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in humanitarian aid and development has become evident during the past decade. ICT has been used in diverse emergency humanitarian situations, from the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008, the 2009 conflict in Sri Lanka and post-election violence in Kenya in 2008, to natural disasters such as cyclone Nargis in Burma in 2008 and the recent Haiti earthquake. ICT tools and applications are often the single most important factors in determining the success of disaster relief and aid operations, particularly in the area of Satellite Communications.

Emergency Response & Disaster Relief

Given a projected five-fold increase in natural and manmade disasters globally in the next 50 years, the fieldsof emergency response and disaster relief are likely to become ever-more significant concerns in humanitarian relief and development. Agencies and workers around the world currently focus on areas such as health promotion, food security, water and sanitation, protection and disaster risk reduction in disaster-ravaged locations worldwide.

Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Logistics constitutes a hugely significant field in development and aid. Logistics spans the processes and systems involved in mobilising people, resources and knowledge in support of development projects, aid and relief operations, and particularly material aspects such as cargo, warehousing, distribution and transport. Whilst logistic efforts are essential to continuous development and aid projects, they are of paramount importance in emergency and disaster situations, accounting for an estimated 80% of disaster relief efforts.

Peacekeeping, Security & Regional Stability

The importance of achieving a stable environment in which political and economic growth can take place is of course one of the fundamental challenges faced in the continent, having a huge bearing on the development of core infrastructure and the safe delivery of key aid, equipment and resources. A crucial role played is that of private security companies, who provide support services for various UN/NGO projects and programmes.

Food Security, Agricultural Development & Microfinance

The global economic recession has compounded the 2006-2008 food crisis that pushed the prices of basicfood staples beyond the reach of millions of impoverished Africans. The results have been a rise in the number of undernourished people worldwide to 1.02 billion in 2009. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the world’s most food insecure region, with the number of undernourished people steadily rising to 265 million, or roughly 1 in 3.

Between 60-99% of rural households earn a living from farming, even if it is rarely the only source of income for households. Family farming is characterised by a low productivity due in particular to low levels of investment in inputs (fertiliser, phytosanitary products, herbicides) or in equipment. But such investments require access to financial sources in the form of short, medium or long term loans. Farm families often live from city centres, and with low monetary incomes find it difficult to qualify for loans. In this context, numerous initiatives in microfinance aimed at helping rural populations, who have heretofore been excluded from access to financial services, have become a source of hope for agricultural financing in developing countries.

With our traditionally strong support from UN agencies and NGOs, the programme will also include a special focus on private sector partnering and procurement especially in the health, agricultural and logistics sectors. Invited participants include:

Who Should Attend?

HDS is geared towards bringing the private and public sector together to form alliances and create business partnerships in an effort to solve a variety of humanitarian and logistical problems on the continent of Africa.

Any company operating within the following sectors would gain an unrivalled opportunity to present their services and products to government officials, procurement officers and high ranking decision makers pertinent to their industry: Building and Reconstruction, Disaster Prevention, Education and Training, Emergency Relief Services, Food and Agriculture, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Equipment, Information Technology, Logistics and Transportation Services, Procurement Consultancy Services, Security and conflict protection, Shelter and non-food items, Telecommunication Equipment and Services, Water and Sanitation.

We look forward to welcoming you in Nairobi

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