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A groundbreaking conference of the Pan African Business Coalition (PABC) is set to take place as soon as funding has been unlocked.
Brad Mears, SABCOHA CEO and current chair of the PABC, said the conference is likely to take place in the next couple of months. "I'm very excited about where the PABC is going," said Mears. "There are massive opportunities for development. The PABC is providing an opening for individual country coalitions to get far more support with regard to technical assistance, access to funding and information and the sharing of dialogue."
The conference will look at the inclusion of business coalitions in French-speaking and Arab-speaking countries. It will also examine the role and the rotation of the PABC chair as well as decide on the legal location of the organisation for registration purposes.
Partnerships to boost the capacity of coalitions across the continent are being formed between the PABC and GTZ (German Agency for Technical Cooperation), Standard Bank and the International Executive Service Corps (IESC). These partnerships will be formalised at the conference.
The GTZ partnership will see the provision of technical assistance to the country coalitions; the Standard Bank partnership will help to strengthen the country coalitions through the seconding of "high-flying Standard Bank employees" to address skills and capacity shortages within each coalition; and the IESC partnership will facilitate the use of the BizAIDS methodology by country coalitions aiming to give more capacity to micro-enterprises in withstanding the ravages of HIV/AIDS in their countries, said Mears.
"The opportunity exists for an Africa-wide policy to be adopted by business in respect of HIV/AIDS," he added.
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