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Event Schedule
24
September
8:00 - 08:30 AM
MASTERCLASS Session: Building Africa’s Capacity on Gemstone and Jewellery value chains and markets through the African Continental Free Trade Area
24
September
08:30 AM - 12:55 PM
MASTERCLASS Sessions
24
September
1:00 - 02:00 PM
Lunch
Please take lunch in your own time. Conference attendees will not be charged.
24
September
4:30 - 05:00 PM
MASTERCLASS Sessions
24
September
5:00 - 06:00 PM
MASTERCLASS Sessions Closing
25
September
8:00 - 09:00 AM
Registration of Delegates, Participants & LOCAL Exhibitors and Exhibition Booth / Pavilion Preparations
25
September
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Opening Ceremony and Breakfast Meeting Session
Chaired by WIM-Nigeria
25
September
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Key Note Address
25
September
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Key Note Addresses
by
AWIMA President: Pascaline Omgba
AMDC Interim Director: Marit Kitaw
25
September
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Empowering African women in mining
Breaking barriers, building futures; on whose shoulders?
Conversations among women leaders on their individual journeys
25
September
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Lunch
Please take lunch in your own time. Conference attendees will not be charged.
25
September
2:30 - 03:30 PM
Local Gemstone & Jewellery Exhibition
Private Booths Viewing Of Local Gemstone & Jewellery Exhibitors Coordinated By Investment Promotion Director/Raw Materials Research and Development council/WIMIN in mining
25
September
3:00 - 04:00 PM
Press Conference
26
September
8:00 - 09:00 AM
Update on AMDC’s Five Year Strategic Plan relating to ASM policy, strategy and sector governance to provide technical support to African Member States together with strategic partners
• AMV and AMGF Review Updates – Marit Kitaw (AMDC)
• Developments on AMREC-PARC for Efficient ASM – Tunde Arisekola (AMDC)
• ASM Continental Strategy – Mkhululi Ncube (AMDC)
• ACP-EU-UNDP DevMin - Lacina Pakoum (UNDP)
26
September
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Session 1: Africa’s potential to grow local regional value chains and local markets in alignment with Global Standards and Markets – “Think Global, Think Regional, Act Local”
• Keynote Presentation: Clever Sithole - Building AMDC accredited Gemmology courses for deployment across African Lapidary Training Centres
• James Mazimba (Cross fertilisation potential of Continental Lapidary Training Centres)
• Tejiri Omologe (Tejiri Jewellery Centre – Nigeria)
• Bartel Latzoo (Mathydy - Senegal)
• Bernice Dery ( - Ghana)
• Mecktilder Mchovu (WOOW ME Jewellery - Tanzania)
26
September
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Health/Tea/Coffee/Cocoa Break
26
September
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 2: Africa’s potential to Building Africa’s Gemstone and Jewellery value chains and markets through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AGJEC-4-AfCFTA)
Moderated by Theophilus Boadu Adoko
• Presentation on linking Gemstones and Jewellery within the adopted AU Fashion Industry Development Strategy and its Program Delivery Framework Bulelwa Nkosi (AUC)
• Presentation on linkages between Ghana and Zambia in producing wholly African sourced PROUDLY AFRICAN jewellery Josephine Agyekum (PMMC)
• Growth of Ghana’s Gold Statement in alignment with the Lapidary Training Centre Judy Crayem (Rapport Services)
26
September
1:00 - 02:30 PM
Lunch
26
September
2:45 - 03:45 PM
Session 3: Africa’s potential to Building Africa’s Gemstone and Jewellery value chains and markets through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AGJEC-4-AfCFTA continued)
Moderator Zenzi Awases
• Presentation on Women in Extractive Industry trade and value addition – ZAMBIA Pauline Mundia, WETVAAZ
• Gem & Jewellery exposure linkages with international exhibitions and fairs as capacity building for local events - ETHIOPIA Tewodros Sintayehu (EGJA)
• Gem & Jewellery exposure linkages with international exhibitions and fairs as capacity building for local events – ZIMBABWE Ruvimbo Kadenhe (WIGAZ)
• Presentation on aspirations to growing local gemstone and jewellery industry from grassroots – the case of UGANDA Agnes Alaba (Uganda Geological Survey)
26
September
3:45 - 04:00 PM
Tea Break
26
September
4:00 - 04:45 PM
Session 4: TIME for Africa
• Gabriel Mothibedi – Nako Timepieces
• Bartel Latzoo – MATHYDY
• Dokun Roberts - AK&DOKS
27
September
8:00 - 08:15 AM
Remarks by Dr. Janet Adeyemi
27
September
8:15 - 08:30 AM
Remarks by Dr. Marit Kitaw
27
September
8:30 - 09:00 AM
Official Opening Remarks
Minister of Mines
28
September
9:00 - 06:00 PM
SHOWCASE EXHIBITION OF AFRICAN LOCAL GEMSTONES, JEWELLERY & FASHION
28
September
7:00