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This report provides an overview of the 2025 Inaugural Pan Africa Conference, hosted by the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), held in Dakar, Senegal, from February 11–13.
Aarti Mohan is Co-founder and Partner at Sattva Consulting, and leads their practices in Gender and Sustainable Supply Chains. As part of RAC, she is looking forward to support ANDE’s cross-cutting focus on gender and establishing sustainable innovation models in large supply chains.
This blog captures key insights from the session, outlining existing barriers, opportunities for scale, and cross-cutting reflections from the ANDE IMT World Cafe session and the “Catalyzing Innovative Technologies in Waste & Circularity for Dignified Jobs” workshop, held in partnership with Villgro.
The cohort explored the concept of intersectionality and its importance in business development programming from the two invited expert speakers; Shamha Naseer, Gender Specialist for the Youth Empowerment Portfolio in Asia and the Pacific at UNDP’s Bangkok Regional Hub, and Ian Jones, Co-Founder and Director at Mekong Inclusive Ventures.