Africa secretariat - The Home of African raw materials

1. S E C R E T A R I A T
AFRICA
BUSINESS
OVERVIEW
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2. 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
By
BEN OMOAKIN OGUNTALA
CEO & Founder
In collaboration with DevelopingAfrica.Net SecurityinAfrica.com & Africaendesarrollo.com
info@africasecretariat.com
078 120 39867
Twitter:@afrosecretariat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Africasecretariatcom
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Africa-Secretariat
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3. Introduction
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 Governments and African Chambers of Commerce
in addressing some of the development challenges and obstacles Africa is
facing.
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.
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.
Leadership creating
opportunities
Women initiatives from
leadership
Chambers of commerce
engagement
Youth Entrepreneuirship
African Diapora
engagement
African raw material
promotion
Intra-African Trade
promotion
Africasecretariat.com
From cabinet to rural
AFRICA
Demonstrable WOMEN
Empowerment initiative
Trade engagement value
chain
Creating employment via youth
entrpreneurship at Universitines
Engaging African Diapora
professionals to trade with Africa
Promoting the engagement of African raw
materials to the international market
Promotion os supply and
demand exchange in Africa
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4. Our services
Our services are designed to enable development from information through technology
that facilitates:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. YouthEntrepreneurship–StartingwithAfricanUniversities,theaimistoprovideaportal
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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. AfricanLeadership–ForAfricanHeadsofStatesandPoliticalpartiestokickoffinitiatives
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.
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5. 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.
Africa Secretariat: Africa handling its own business
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6. Getting started
1. African Leadership – We invite Political Leaders in Africa to participate in this initiative in order to
demonstrate the change they can bring to the communities they wish to vote for them.
2. Intra-Africa Trade Promotion – Community representatives at local and rural levels in Africa are invited to
register their interest in promotion the demand from the community as well as the supply they can provide
to other communities.
3. Women initiatives – we invite First Lady organisations in across Africa at national and state levels to join us
and register their initiatives and allow girls and women across each community to participate
4. Chambers of commerce – all African Chambers of commerce are invited to register with us and activate the
business services they offer
5. Youth Entrepreneurship – Universities across Africa are invited to register with us and allow their students to
participate in this initiative as it will encourage direct investment to development their Research capabilities.
6. African raw materials – manufacturers of raw materials from Africa are invited to register their organisations
and list their raw materials that will be made available to international suppliers.
7. African Diaspora engagement – African Diaspora professionals are invited to register with us as a means of
participating in development of their communities back home.
To create an account, please contact info@africasecretariat.com letting us know which initiative you wish to
participate in.
Contact us
Ben Omoakin Oguntala
CEO Founder, AfricaSecretariat.com
info@africasecretariat.com
078 120 39867
@afrosecretariat
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Africasecretariatcom
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Africa-Secretariat
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