Venue: Palais des Congrès Room: Huis-Clos
8:30 AM 30/10/2023
Principals and Deans Meeting
8:30 AM 30/10/2023
Board Executive Committee meeting
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Meeting Room A
Prof. Theresia Nkuo-Akenji, RUFORUM Board Chair and VC University of Bamenda
Speaker
11:00 AM 30/10/2023
Official viewing of posters/exhibitions
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Balcony
Prof. Brice Sinsin, Former VC of UAC & IAP Member
Speaker
11:00 AM 30/10/2023
Official Opening of the AGM and Scientific Conference
Venue: Palais des Congrès Room: Inaugural Hall
H.E Dr. Akin Adesina, President, African Development Bank
Speaker
2:00 PM 30/10/2023
Transformative Education: Preparing young people for the workforce
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: The Tripartite Room
Pauline GANGLA, .Head, Higher Education Collaboratives, Mastercard Foundation
Speaker
8:30 AM 31/10/2023
Vice Chancellors Forum
enue: Palais des Congres Room: Huis-Clos
Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, VC Makerere University
Speaker
8:30 AM 31/10/2023
Leveraging regional and collaborative capacity for building capacity (case studies/updates)
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Meeting Room E
Dr. Frederic Lancon, Scientific Director, AGRINATURA
Speaker
8:30 AM 31/10/2023
Smallholder agriculture: feeding and growing Africa?
11:00 AM 31/10/2023
Regenerative agriculture
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: The Tripartite Room
Dr. Regis Chikowo, Systems Agronomist, University of Zimbabwe
Speaker
11:00 AM 31/10/2023
Africa’s new harvest: Preparing Africa’s agriculture and related sectors to feed and grow the economy
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: The Tripartite Room
Dr. Job Kihara Agronomist at CIAT - Kenya
Speaker
11:00 AM 31/10/2023
Reducing food losses, evening food supply and creating market opportunities for Africa’s food systems
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Complex A
Prof. Umezuruike Linus Opara,
Speaker
11:00 AM 31/10/2023
Digital Science solutions: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and recent advances in digitization for Teaching, Learning and Policy in Africa
11:00 AM 31/10/2023
Africa’s Blue Economy: Sustainable marine and fresh water exploitation
2:00 PM 31/10/2023
Building Food Systems Governance and Policy Analysis Capacity in Africa
2:00 PM 31/10/2023
Smallholder agriculture: feeding and growing Africa? Case studies across the continent
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: The Tripartite Room
Dr. Tshilidzi Madzivhandila, Head of Mission, FANRPAN
Speaker
2:00 PM 31/10/2023
Enhancing value chain functionality; methods, approaches and inclusive policy design: Experiences for VCA4D
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Complex A
Dr. Frederic Lancon, Scientific Director, AGRINATURA
Speaker
2:00 PM 31/10/2023
Accelerating economic growth: trends, youth, policy and futures
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Meeting Room E
Dr. Silim Nahdy, Execuctive Director, AFAAS
Speaker
2:00 PM 31/10/2023
FAWoVC Symposium
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Huis-Clos
Prof. Teresa Akenga, Chair, FAWoVC
Speaker
2:00 PM 31/10/2023
High Level Policy Dialogue – Transformative Higher education financing/resourcing/ partnerships
Prof. Jacques F Ndongo, Min. of State, Min. of Higher Education, Cameroon
Speaker
8:30 AM 1/11/2023
Accelerating and scaling-up Africa’s climate change adaptation and mitigation actions:
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: The Tripartite Room
Dr. Robert Zougmore, AICCRA West Africa Cluster Lead
Speaker
8:30 AM 1/11/2023
Board Meeting
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Huis-Clos
Prof. Theresia Nkuo-Akenji, RUFORUM Board Chair and VC University of Bamenda
Speaker
8:30 AM 1/11/2023
SIDE EVENT: Operationalization of Abidjan II Communique
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Inaugural Hall
Dr. Aggrey Agumya, Executive Director - FARA
Speaker
8:30 AM 1/11/2023
RUFORUM- LIBSENSE Research Data Management (RDM) Workshop
11:00 AM 1/11/2023
SIDE EVENT : South-South and Triangular Cooperation Network on climate change adaptation and agri-food systems transformation (FAO-RUFORUM)
11:00 AM 1/11/2023
FAWoVC Mentorship Session
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Meeting Room B
Prof. Teresa Akenga, Chair, FAWoVC
Speaker
11:00 AM 1/11/2023
SIDE EVENT: Strengthening Inclusivity and Diversity in Agricultural Higher Education
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Complex A
Dr. Susan Kaaria, Excective Director, AWARD
Speaker
2:00 PM 1/11/2023
SIDE EVENT : Launch of the International Research Consortium (IRC)
(Blended) Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Inaugural Hall
Dr. Aggrey Agumya, Executive Director - FARA
Speaker
2:00 PM 1/11/2023
SIDE EVENT: Building food systems governance and policy analysis capacity in Africa (IOFS-RUFORUM-AGRA)
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Meeting Room A
Mr. Sofian Ben Mouaddeb,
Speaker
2:00 PM 1/11/2023
FAWoVC AGM
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: Huis Clos
Prof. Teresa Akenga, Chair, FAWoVC
Speaker
2:00 PM 1/11/2023
Integrating Value Chain for Development Approaches into Agricultural Higher Education in Africa
8:30 AM 2/11/2023
RUFORUM Annual General Business Meeting
Venue: Palais des Congrès Time: 08:30-10:30 CAT
Prof. Theresia Nkuo-Akenji, RUFORUM Board Chair and VC University of Bamenda
Speaker
8:30 AM 2/11/2023
AU-EU Working Group on FNSSA
2:00 PM 2/11/2023
Press Briefing
Venue: Palais des Congres Room: TBC
Prof. Theresia Nkuo-Akenji, RUFORUM Board Chair and VC University of Bamenda
Speaker
2:00 PM 2/11/2023
Official Closing ceremony
Prof. Wilfred Nyongbet Secretary General, Ministry of Higher Education, Cameroon
Speaker
8:30 AM 3/11/2023