Events

Upcoming Events

November 16, 2024

Children and Youth Pavilion; Pavilion No. D8, Blue Zone; Baku, Azerbaijan

1:30 - 2:15 PM GMT+4

Localising Green Technology Innovation: The Role of the Youth

Join us at COP29 as APRI and SYND convene a side event to discuss the challenges and share insights on increasing youth interest and participation in green technology development.

November 13, 2024

IGAD Pavilion; Pavilion No. D9, Blue Zone; Baku, Azerbaijan

4 - 5:30 PM GMT+4

Green Climate Technology, Local Innovation, and Youth Employment: Opportunities and Challenges in Africa

Join us at COP29 as APRI and SYND convene a side event to discuss challenges and share insights on scaling green technology innovation to create youth employment.

Past Events
November 7, 2024

Online

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm CET

Launch Event: Youth Resilience on a Planet in Crisis

Join us for the Youth Resilience on a Planet in Crisis launch event.

November 6, 2024

Online

14:00 pm - 15:30 CET

Financing the Climate Agenda: Demands from African Countries for COP 29

Join us for the Financing the Climate Agenda: Demands from African Countries for COP 29 webinar event.

August 21, 2024

Treasure Suites & Conferences, Abuja

9 AM - 12 PM WAT

Solar Mini-Grids for Youth Employment in Nigeria: Insights and Next Steps

Join us for the Nigeria In-country Roundtable Discussion Event

August 14, 2024

Dusit Princess Hotel, Nairobi

08:00am – 12:30pm EAT

Electric Mobility for Youth Employment in Kenya: Insights and Next Steps

Join us for the Kenya In-country Roundtable Discussion Event

August 2, 2024

Alisa Hotel, Accra

10:00-1:00 pm GMT

Youth-Driven Climate Smart Agriculture in Ghana: Insights and Next Steps

Join us for the Youth-Driven Climate Smart Agriculture in Ghana: Insights and Next Steps

July 30, 2024

Online

12:00 - 1:30pm WAT

Recording

Energizing Africa – Enabling Private Sector Development in Renewable Energy

Join our webinar on Energizing Africa – Enabling Private Sector Development in Renewable Energy

July 15, 2024

Online

14:00 CEST

Recording

German-Africa Feminist Development Policy: What’s Next?

Join our webinar on German-Africa Feminist Development Policy: What’s Next?

May 3, 2024

Hybrid

9:30 am - 6pm CEST

Climate Reporting in Africa

Discover how climate change impacts Africa and how African journalists are covering it! Join us in Berlin on World Press Day, May 3, 2024.

May 6, 2024

Hybrid

9:00 am - 1:00 pm WAT

Unlocking Climate Finance: Actionable Pathways for Nigeria’s Low Net Emissions Growth

We invite you to join us to discuss how Nigeria can attract climate finance by integrating climate action into its economic development plans.

March 26, 2024

Hybrid

9:00 am - 1:30 pm WAT

Stakeholder Engagement: Methane Mitigation and Reduction in Nigeria's Oil and Gas Sector

We invite you to a stakeholder engagement event in the context of an ongoing project on methane mitigation and reduction in Nigeria's oil and gas sector.

January 24, 2024

Hybrid, in-person in Berlin with live broadcast

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm CET

Recording

Reimagining Development Cooperation: Pragmatic Pathways for Africa-German Relations

Join us for the Kick-Off Event | Africa in The World High-Level Roundtable Series.

December 9, 2023

Zero-Carbon Future pavilion at COP 28, Dubai

10:30 - 11:30 GST

Local Solutions, Global Impact: A Deep Dive into West Africa's Climate Adaptation Landscape

Join us for "Local Solutions, Global Impact: A Deep Dive into West Africa's Climate Adaptation Landscape" in-person event.

December 3, 2023

Zero Carbon Future Pavilion in the Blue Zone, Dubai

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm GST

From Promises to Partnerships: Opportunities to Reshape Africa-Europe Partnerships for Effective Climate Action

Join us for "From Promises to Partnerships: Opportunities to Reshape Africa-Europe Partnerships for Effective Climate Action" in-person event.

November 8, 2023

Online

11:00 am - 12:30 pm CET

Recording

Report Launch:
Green Technology and Youth Employment Potential in Africa: A Continental Scoping Report

Join us for "Green Technology and Youth Employment Potential in Africa: A Continental Scoping Report" launch event.

November 1, 2023

Online

02:30 - 04:00 PM CET

Recording

Webinar on Climate Change Adaptation in Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices

Join us for the webinar on Climate Change Adaptation effort in Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal

September, 19 2023

Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, Ziegelstraße 30, 10117 Berlin

15:15 - 16:45 CEST

Partnership in Progress: Türkiye-Africa Relations

Join us for the "Partnership in Progress: Türkiye-Africa Relations' discussion

August 31, 2023

Online Webinar

14:00 - 15:30 CEST

Recording

Beyond the BRICS 2023 Summit: Outcomes and Next Steps

Join us for "Beyond the BRICS 2023 Summit: Outcomes and Next Steps" webinar on August 31, 2023; 14:00 - 15:30 CET

August 10, 2023

Coconut Groove Hotel, Accra

08:30 - 01:00 pm GMT

Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices Final Workshop

Join us for "The Climate Change Adaptation in Senegal: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices Final Workshop" on August 10, 2023 at 8:30 AM

August 8, 2023

Chida International Events Centre, Abuja

09:30 - 02:00 pm WAT

Climate Change Adaptation in Nigeria: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices Final Workshop

Join us for "The Climate Change Adaptation in Nigeria: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices Final Workshop" on August 8, 2023 at 9:30 AM

August 3, 2023

Hôtel Filaos, Saly, Mbour, Senegal

08:30-03:00pm GMT

Climate Change Adaptation in Senegal: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices Final Workshop

APRI - Africa Policy Research Institute in close collaboration with ENDA Energie is hosting a one day workshop today to launch the report on Locally-led Adaptation. The report is a result of the Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices project implemented by APRI with ENDA Energie.

May 30, 2023

Online

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (CEST, GMT +2)

Recording

Applying a coordinated approach to promoting Africa's single market

To understand the dynamics of attracting investment into the African Continental Free Trade Area, our experts discussed the best strategies to promote Africa's single market, and how stakeholders can work together to achieve this goal.

May 16, 2023

Open Society Foundations, Jägerstraße 54, Berlin 10117

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (EDT)

Recording

Beyond the Ballot: Nigeria’s Role in a Changing World

In a region plagued by climate breakdown, armed conflict, food insecurity, and extreme poverty, will Nigeria’s newly-elected president set out the kind of effective development agenda needed for a more positive and productive period ahead?

April 26, 2023

German Parliamentary Society, 10117 Berlin

18:30 – 20:00hrs

Accelerating renewable energy investments in Africa – Overcoming challenges, harnessing potentials

The German Africa Foundation and the Africa Policy Research Institute cordially invite you to an expert discussion.

February 23, 2023

Reinhardtstraße 14, 10117 Berlin

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EDT)

Opportunities of the European Green Deal for Africa’s private sector

Together with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, APRI organized an event to discuss the potential implications and opportunities the European Green Deal entails for the African private sector. The event included a panel discussion that takes as a point of departure a presentation of the key findings of the new policy brief.

February 9, 2023

Central Hotel, Accra, 5 Julius Nyerere Road, Ridge, Accra

09:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. GMT

Post-COP27 Updates and Pathways for Advancing Locally-Led Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana

The Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI) in collaboration with the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre organised a one-day workshop that brought together various stakeholders operating in the fields of climate change adaptation space to identify pathways, strategies and shared stakeholder ambitions for deepening and advancing locally-led adaptation.

February 6, 2023

Fleur de Lys Hotel, Dakar, Senegal

08:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. CEST

Recording

Climate adaptation, strategies, practices and initiatives : Issues and orientations in Senegal

The Africa Policy Research Institute (APRI) and ENDA ENERGIE organised a multi-stakeholder workshop to share preliminary results of case studies on locally Leed adaptation experiences for the agriculture, coastal zone and health sectors.

January 20, 2023

Sandralia Hotel, Jabi, Abuja

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. WAT

Climate Change Adaptation in Nigeria: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices

The Climate Change Adaptation in Nigeria: Strategies, Initiatives, and Practices Project is aimed at understanding the status, challenges and opportunities of climate change adaptation in Nigeria with a particular emphasis on locally-led adaptation.

January 19 2023

Online

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CET

Recording

Post COP27 Fireside: What did COP27 Achieve for Financing Africa's Climate Agenda?

In the aftermath of COP27, APRI organised a fireside chat with the lead researchers of the said report to reflect on the key outcomes of COP27 and what these mean for financing Africa's climate agenda in 2023 and beyond. The Event discussed the public climate finance delivery, implementation mechanisms and architecture in Africa in the context of the outcomes at COP27.

November 24, 2022

Lecture Theatre 7, Graduate Business School, Breakwater Campus, University of Cape Town (Streame )

12:00 p.m. SAST (South Africa Standard Time)

Innovation and Institutional Change: The politics of South Africa’s climate finance and its Just Energy Transitions Partnership

This lecture spoke to the emerging climate policy arena and maps actors, coalitions and contestations associated with implementing South Africa’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and its associated Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P).

November 22, 2022

Online (Twitter Space)

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CET

Recording

What are the effects of the war in Ukraine on African countries?

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Africa Policy Research Institute, APRI, has been tracking the effects of the war on African countries through a series of essays written by experts in various sectors. The essays cover a range of topics from energy policy and changes in geopolitics to the effects on Africa’s digital transformation. APRI hosted a two-part discussion with the experts who wrote the essays, to discuss the effects the war in Ukraine has had on African countries.

November 10, 2022

CATF Zero Carbon Future Pavilion, Blue Zone

14.30 – 15.30 EET

Climate Finance in Africa: Needs, challenges and opportunities to deliver low-carbon and climate-resilient development

Going into COP27, Africa’s needs vis-à-vis the current climate finance mechanism and architecture – as well as their alignment with realities in African countries – need to be made clear. To this end, APRI undertook a study to explore the systems that underpin public climate finance delivery and implementation in South Africa, Ghana, and Zambia.

November 8, 2022

Mensvic Hotel, East Legon, Accra

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. WAT

Ghana Climate Finance Report Launch

Going into COP27, Africa’s needs vis-à-vis the current climate finance mechanism and architecture – as well as their alignment with realities in African countries – need to be made clear. To this end, APRI, in partnership with the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), undertook a study to explore the systems that underpin public climate finance delivery and implementation in Ghana.

November 4, 2022

Radisson Blu Hotel, Lusaka

08:00 a.m. Harare, Pretoria time

Zambia Climate Finance Report Launch

The project analysed the practical experiences and challenges state and non-state actors encounter in accessing and administering climate finance. T he new report from this project provides empirical evidence to support Africa's negotiating positions around climate finance and opportunities and pathways to solutions.

October 27, 2022

Office of the Africa Association, Friedrichstr. 206 entrance Zimmerstr. 10969 Berlin

09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CEST

Discussion: “Africa Insight!”

This year's UN climate conference COP 27 is taking place in Egypt under the motto "Together for Implementation". This time the COP places a special focus on the African continent and the associated climate and energy issues. Raising the national climate targets, dealing with climate-related failures and damage, and the issue of climate finance are the focus of the negotiations. For African stakeholders, questions about climate finance and the delayed provision of funds for climate protection are particularly important.

October 12, 2022

Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Haus, Room 3.101, Deutscher Bundestag, Adele-Schreiber-Krieger-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin

09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CEST

Discussion: "Closing the gap" – Financing Africa's Climate Agenda

African countries are already bearing the brunt of the consequences of climate change, despite contributing little to creating it. The funding gap, especially in the area of adaptation to climate change, is therefore one of the greatest challenges and one of the most important concerns of African countries.

June 22, 2022

Online

1700hrs - 1800hrs CEST

Recording

Africa’s debt architecture: global financial access, rating agencies and restructuring

During this event, we discussed the African debt landscape with a focus on the effects of increased access to international financial markets, role of credit ratings and the various debt restructuring agreements. The event built on the two policy briefs that were published earlier this year.

June 22, 2022

Online

1700hrs - 1800hrs CEST

Recording

G7 and Africa: Towards a strong partnership for progress on climate protection

The event discussed key policy recommendations from APRI’s study on G7-Africa climate relations and how and if Germany’s climate club initiative can be designed to increase multilateral support for African countries. The event deepened the current discussion on how the G7 can make concrete progress in supporting Africa’s climate agenda.

May 4, 2022

Online

03:00 p.m. - 04:15 p.m. CET

Recording

Climate Change and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)

The Africa Policy Research Institute in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, D.C. office interrogated the place of AfCFTA within the emerging global climate agenda and Africa’s own emerging climate agenda. This webinar extends APRI’s Africa’s Climate Agenda Program.

February 16, 2022

Online

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CEST

Recording

Towards a Policy Fit for Purpose between Africa and Europe

The Africa Policy Research Institute in collaboration with the Office of MEP Dr. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana hosted the webinar to explore the relationship between Africa and Europe and to collectively deliberate on strategies for a mutually beneficial partnership to enhance sustainable investment in key sectors for both continents. The webinar built on the volume edited by Olumide Abimbola and Faten Aggad.

December 1, 2021

Online

1 p.m GMT / 2 p.m. CET / 4 p.m EAT

Recording

AI in Africa: Key Concerns and Considerations

The objective of the webinar was to provide an overview of the current impacts of AI within the African region, to review the emerging policy responses, and to set out a series of policy recommendations to strengthen the development of locally relevant AI technologies and ecosystems in diverse African societies.

October 20, 2021

Online

4:00pm EAT

Recording

State of Africa's Digital Agenda

The objective of the event was to map the gains and the gaps in implementing digital agendas and strategies by African countries to date – and to collectively deliberate on how the continent should develop and implement digital policies moving forward. It builds on a report titled “What is Africa’s Digital Agenda?” that was produced by Olumide Abimbola, Faten Aggad and Bhaso Ndzendze.

June 22, 2021

Online (Zoom Webinar)

18:00 to 19:00 SAST (GMT +2)

Ethical Humanitarianisms: Power, Aid & Dignity

The Ethical Humanitarianisms project is a collaboration with the Friedensau Institute for Evaluation (FIFE), Germany. The project thus interrogates the ontological and epistemological assumptions that underpin different imaginaries of humanitarianism and ask what it will mean and take to decolonise these. That is, how to account for acts of kindness that usually are not included in “formal” humanitarian projects or conceptions of humanitarianism.

June 2, 2021

Online

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm CEST

Recording

Shaping the future of multilateralism

The discussion input focused on the connections between debt and climate finance, on the conditions for fair trade with goods as well as digital services, as well as on a vision for the global economy that promotes and protects diversity, human rights and gender equality.

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