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PROJECT LABS WEDNESDAY 17 INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY | PROJECT LABS 16:30 – 17:30 Training Domestics Project Lab 3 VIDEO ADDRESS Goreth Kanyange, President of IDAY Burundi Pacificah Okemwa, Kenyatta University, Kenya PANEL Pilar Pineiro, Project Manager, Action Développement Parrainages Mondiaux – ADPM Jean-Jacques Schul, President of IDAY International They are young, sometimes still children. They cook, garden, and mind children. Unworthy to many, often ‘invisible’, many young domestic workers in Africa are deprived of professional status... and education. Through the stories and aspirations of seven young domestic workers in Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, this IDAY/ADPM documentary addresses the enforcement of the right to education of thousands of them in Africa. Beyond a human right, their training will also contribute to strengthening the tertiary sector and curb youth unemployment. The screening will be followed by a discussion with practitioner members of IDAY International & ADPM. Organised by IDAY 82 | EDD 2012 | AGENDA | WEDNESDAY 17

PROJECT LABS | INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY 17:00 – 18:00 Financing SME-SMI, What Solutions Project Lab 1 for the Missing Middle? Passwell Chapi, CEO, African Guarantee Fund for SMEs Paul Frix, Interim Director, Development Centre of ACP Companies – CDE Jean-Paul Kadem, CEO, Afriland First Bank, Paris Frédéric Lernoux, CEO, Belgium Bankers Academy Luca Marangoni, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission Mabousso Thiam, Director General, Agency of SMEs Development – ADPME, Senegal Olivier Willocx, Director General, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry Developing SME-SMI is a main factor in supporting African growth, as it accounts for 80 % of sub-Saharan companies. They nevertheless do not play the role they deserve, one of the most striking issues being access to financing and credit. The objective of this session is to identify best practices from Europe and Africa and analyse how they could be consolidated and reinforced. The new African Guarantee Fund for SMEs will serve as a starting point to launch the debate and discuss the importance of creating guarantee funds. Moderated by Erik Nyindu, Information Director, VoxAfrica TV Denis Massart, Consultant Adama Wade, Editorial Director, Les Afriques Organised by VoxAfrica WEDNESDAY 17 | AGENDA | EDD 2012 | 83 PROJECT LABS WEDNESDAY 17

PROJECT LABS | INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY<br />

17:00 – 18:00 Financing SME-SMI, What Solutions<br />

Project Lab 1 for the Missing Middle?<br />

Passwell Chapi, CEO, African Guarantee Fund for SMEs<br />

Paul Frix, Interim Director, Development Centre of ACP Companies – CDE<br />

Jean-Paul Kadem, CEO, Afriland First Bank, Paris<br />

Frédéric Lernoux, CEO, Belgium Bankers Academy<br />

Luca Marangoni, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Development<br />

and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission<br />

Mabousso Thiam, Director General, Agency of SMEs Development –<br />

ADPME, Senegal<br />

Olivier Willocx, Director General, Brussels Enterprises Commerce<br />

and Industry<br />

Developing SME-SMI is a main factor in supporting African growth, as it accounts<br />

for 80 % of sub-Saharan companies. They nevertheless do not play the role they<br />

deserve, one of the most striking issues being access to financing and credit.<br />

The objective of this session is to identify best practices from Europe and Africa<br />

and analyse how they could be consolidated and reinforced. The new African<br />

Guarantee Fund for SMEs will serve as a starting point to launch the debate<br />

and discuss the importance of creating guarantee funds.<br />

Moderated by<br />

Erik Nyindu, Information Director, VoxAfrica TV<br />

Denis Massart, Consultant<br />

Adama Wade, Editorial Director, Les Afriques<br />

Organised by VoxAfrica<br />

WEDNESDAY 17 | AGENDA | EDD 2012 | 83<br />

PROJECT LABS<br />

WEDNESDAY 17

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