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Gilles Atayi

Managing Partner, G&A Business Solutions

Understand what our challenges are

• Botswana

• Ghana

• Kenya

• Malawi

• Maurice

• Nigeria

• Sierra Leone

• South Africa

• Sudan

•Tanzania

• Uganda

• Zambia

• Benin

• Burkina Faso

• Cameroon

• Chad

•Congo Brazzaville

• Cote d’Ivoire

• D.R. Congo

• Gabon

• Madagascar

• Niger

• Togo

12 Anglophone and 11 pays Francophone countries

Engaged with more than 400 executives in sub-Saharan Africa

At micro level

1. Low trust culture

2. Poor Engagement level – Lack of accountability

3. No shared Vision, different priorities and no alignment between partners

4. Urgency syndrome and severe lack of planning

At organisational level, our challenges manifest in the form of:

At macro level

At country level, our challenges manifest in the form of:

1. Poor Health system for our urban and rural communities.

2. Ineffective Education and Gender equality policies

3. Inadequate Energy and Infrastructure policies

4. Food Insecurity

5. Poor Protection for people

6. Lack of Responsibility and positive Influence

Emerging Africa challenges

Win the Health for our urban & rural communities battle


Win the Education and gender equality battle


Win the Energy and Infrastructure battle


Win the Food security battle


Win the Protection for People battle


Win the Responsibility & Influence battle

Can we “Emerge”?

At macro level

1. Heath for our urban and rural communities.

2. Education and Gender equality

3. Energy and Infrastructure

4. Food Security

5. Protection for people

6. Responsibility and Influence

1. Low trust culture within the organisation

2. Poor Engagement level – Lack of

accountability

3. No shared Vision, different priorities and

no alignment between partners

4. Urgency syndrome and severe lack of

planning

At micro level

A new paradigm

A new perspective

A new mental map

A new « SIM card to be on the network »

A Evolution?

A Revolution

What weapons?

What weapons do we have to win these grand battles?

YOUBut potentially ONLY!


Before anything, (technology, sciences, finances, etc…), we need a

critical mass of women and men of vision, courage and character,

of integrity, of generosity, of compassion, of sacrifice who can rally

us behind the great causes.

30 criteria , 6 competencies.

Will you inspire the necessary transformation, so that together we

can win these significant battles?

Food for thought

“People don’t do because they are told to, but because they want to.”

What weapons?

What weapons do we have to win these grand battles?

YOUPotentially!

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Thank you

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