SEED East Africa Symposium is coming to Kampala and will take place at Sheraton Hotel on September 5th, 2017. The overarching theme for the event is Eco-Inclusive Enterprise Development in East Africa.
It aims at bringing together enterprises, policy makers, business development service providers and further key stakeholders from Uganda and Kenya to jointly explore approaches and cross sectoral partnerships promoting eco-inclusive entrepreneurship.
The event is part of the implementation of "Promoting Eco-Entrepreneurship in Africa", a SWITCH-Africa Green multi-country project in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda.
At the event, there will also be an award ceremony to celebrate the 2017 SAG-SEED Award Winners from Kenya and Uganda supported by the European Union and SWITCH Africa Green. The 2017 Winners will present their unique solutions and current needs to scale up their impact. The communication from SEED singled out the awards to which it referred to as the "True Highlight of the Ceremony".
This symposium was first organized in 2011 and took place in Pretoria, South Africa. Overtime, it has evolved to various regions and currently there is a SEED West Africa Symposium which is slated to take place on 20 July 2017 in Accra, SEED South Africa Symposium which was held on April 19-20th 2017, in Pretoria as well as the East African one.
SEED was founded at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg by UNEP, UNDP and IUCN. The programme is based on the understanding that the promotion of social and environmental entrepreneurship is pivotal for sustainable development and poverty reduction.
Registration for the symposium are now open and further information can be found here.