Africasecretariat.com is an initiative designed to demonstrate Africa’s capability to handle its own business. Rather than criticising African Governments, AfricaSecretariat.com’s objective is to work in a collaborative and pragmatic manner to assist African raw materials manufacturers to trade their raw materials directly with the market. A central theme to AfricaSecretariat.com is the creation of business development opportunities that translates into direct sustainable employment at local and rural levels in Africa. Our technology is designed to create a value chain
for development and employment via the trade in raw materials. Our objective with the African Heads of State and their First Ladies is to demonstrate how they are changing the lives of their people by creating business opportunities that in turn creates development and sustainable employment. Our objective with the African Chambers of Commerce is to use their local connections with African local and rural businesses to channel development initiatives and in turn create local and sustainable employment for the citizens.
As Development Practitioners, we offer International Governments a more practical trade and development engagement plan Africa that is significantly better than dealing directly with African Governments directly, primarily because we are a private organisation paid to deliver on results and do not deal with red tape or bureaucracy. We provide consultancy services to International Governments seeking to boost sectors in their economy, based on a 12 – 18 month strategy development plan. One of the key deliverables is the establishment of a Developing Africa local office in the country. It is clear that in order for African raw materials to develop, it needs to have strategic partnerships that will allow it achieve this aim and to this end, the partnership will be designed to be mutually beneficially, creating trade and employment on both sides. African raw materials have the potential to assist international Governments to development certain sectors of their economy, we achieve this by creating a national, regional and local strategy for engaging Africa via a series of collaborations and matching services to derive mutual benefit for both Africa and international Government. The strategy we will deliver will identify quick wins,
medium term goals and long term goals design, thereby creating export capability for the country, expanding At the national level, the Developing Africa national office will identify the top 10 sectors that the Government wants to develop, we will identify which aspect of these sectors need to source raw materials from Africa and procure the raw materials for them. Where these sectors have expertise that can help Africa process its raw materials to produce the end product locally, we will engage such expertise and align them with such projects and initiate such projects.
Our website is designed to showcase raw materials from various sources and match them to the demand for those raw materials, in the middle are facilitators that enable the conversion of raw materials into end products locally.
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE ENGAGEMENT
As the hub of business, we want to enable each local and rural Chamber of commerce through our technology to list their development challenges and issues within their community, align local businesses that are capability to collaborate in their development and link them with Government initiatives as well as International suppliers interested in the sector or area. The aim of this value chain is to fast track the interest in developing such areas, measure the development initiatives and employment opportunities that emerge from them.
WOMEN INITIATIVES
For Women initiatives at Presidential, state and community levels to use our technology in driving measurable development and employment for girls and women across their country. We would measure the initiatives, connect them with facilitators to make them effective and calibrate their success rates and areas for improvement across each community.
For African Heads of States and Political parties to kick off initiatives that can demonstrate business development and employment for rural areas in their communities. Our technology will allow measurement of impact demonstrating the results that are visible and tangible. Our technology will allow for the communities to identify their key objectives and challenges and allow the Leadership initiatives to convert them into development and employment opportunities. In summary, our services will allow African leaders to set up initiatives that can directly result in development and employment across their countries. The First lady initiatives will ensure women are not left behind on such initiatives and their issues are equally addressed. Local Chambers of commerce would be able to engage in business development and trade facilitation that results in employment. Our Youth Entrepreneurship initiative will allow African youths to use their skills and issues in their community, to create employment opportunities, applicable to both men and women. Allow African Diaspora professionals to take part in the development initiatives in their communities back home. Allow raw materials Africa to be trade globally by inviting International Suppliers to source raw materials from Africa whilst simultaneously allowing competence and capacity development down the value chain. Create the information technology that will allow African communities to trade with each other and address their issues directly.
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future
Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso
Don't weep my love. One day history will have its say. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris or Washington, but our history. That of a new Africa. And on that day...
Patriece Lumumba
The development of African raw materials is dedicated to the legacies of Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso and Patrice Lumumba, President of Congo, the two types of Leaders Africa deserves.
Ben Omoakin Oguntala African-in-Chief www.AfricaSecretariat.com Email – omoakin@africasecretariat.com Tel: 07812039867 @afrosecretariat .com/groups/Africasecretariatcom .com/pages/Africa-Secretariat
Are designed to enable developmentfrom information through technology that facilitates:
INTERNATIONAL SUPPLIERS
International businesses with products and services that are facilitate the development of raw materials, they will register their products and services to be matched to the supply or demand side. Arrangements Intra-Africa Trade promotion – Our technology will allow for the development of supply and demand information system across each African community and would allow a community to list their demand that would be mapped to supply from the closest African Community. The technology aims to allow African communities to see the demand/supply matrix allowing them to address issues like food security and health needs.
AFRICAN DIASPORA ENGAGEMENt
Enabling African Diaspora professionals with interest in their own communities back home to use their expertise or funding to support projects designed to develop such communities. The aim is to create revenue from development as a means of sustaining their interest in the development rural communities in Africa. We would measure Diaspora interest and the amount of development and employment it creates per African country.
AFRICAN RAW MATERIALS
Our technology will showcase raw materials and their manufacturers across each African country. We would link such raw materials to International suppliers seeking such raw materials and create a value chain that 1) enables trade to be initiated in the raw materials and 2) processing development capabilities are developed in Africa in parallel in order to improve competence in Africa. We would measure such initiatives and the employment opportunities it is creating in communities across Africa.
YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Starting with African Universities, the aim is to provide a portal for each African Student to create a business case that can be sponsored. Using their education and the rural area they originate from, they would identify a development opportunity and connect with types of suppliers with products and services that could address the issue. This will be aligned with Government initiatives and local Chambers of commerce that can support the development. The aim is to create employment for at least 5 students per project; we would measure the success of such projects and their impact on rural areas in Africa.