what we do
African Islands Business Council
AIS Regional Knowledge
We have a deeper knowledge of the vulnerability to adverse impacts of climate change particularly the increasingly frequent and extreme weather phenomena which represent the gravest of threats to the survival and viability of local communities, natural ecosystems, and overall sustainable development and growth of AIS. We remain focused and committed to our core objectives of fostering climate action, exploring and utilizing alternative investment vehicles to enhance private sector growth and competitiveness, foster inclusive growth, empower businesses, improve legal and regulatory frameworks, enhance research capacity, provide technical assistance and drive sustainable economic development across the AIS.
AIS Regional Governance and Climate Action
We understand and recognize AIS regions’ challenges when it comes to climate action, governance and significant barriers related to accessing finance, cost of capital, market readiness, upskilling and reskilling workforces needed for a just, inclusive and resilient energy transition. We work to improve governance for local communities, private sector and climate action particularly in areas like policy, legal and regulatory frameworks that encourage businesses and local communities to take climate action.
Leveraging Diaspora Partnerships
We partner and collaborate with diaspora individuals, businesses, policy experts and institutions who are looking to enter, partner and or expand in the AIS regions, providing real-time, inside-track information and networks in an enabling environment to enhance the capacity of AIS communities to produce knowledge that can enhance climate governance and climate action in the region. AiBC is present across the AIS and African diaspora communities across Africa, Europe, North America and Asian continents and is able to engage with key AIS diaspora community stakeholders from businesses, academia, policy experts and civil society organizations around the unrelenting and compounding challenges and economic vulnerabilities and opportunities of the AIS. Talk to us about leveraging partnerships to drive business and sustainable development in the AIS region.
Knowledge Transfer & Skills Development
Providing a platform and opportunities for knowledge transfer and training by mining the inestimable dept of AIS diaspora expertise from business, policy, economic and social domains and infrastructural development across the AIS regions, supporting the engagement and involvement of the diaspora in local content strategies and ensuring the AIS regions could achieve sustainable development and resilient prosperity through diversification and help the states strengthen their productive capacities. Helping the AIS achieve sustainable development and resilient prosperity with the involvement of their diaspora communities is at the core of our mandate as an organization.
With our stakeholders, we routinely organize workshop, webinars and training programs tailored towards identifying and engaging the diaspora on a wide range of issues including business, policy, energy transition, climate change, investment opportunities, sustainable development and achieving resilient prosperity for AIS regions.
Policy Advisory & Technical Assistance
We leverage our network of AIS diaspora policy experts with deep knowledge on the
challenges, vulnerabilities and opportunities in the AIS regions to help in the design,
development and implementation of key policies and regulations that provide an
enabling environment for sustainable development and resilient prosperity, while
ensuring that the diaspora, local businesses and communities benefit from the
numerous opportunities in the region. AiBC is readily available to provide technical
assistance, assist the governments and private sector in the AIS region in all their policy
design, development and implementation endeavors, to stimulate climate action and
promote competitiveness of AIS businesses and local communities.
Diaspora Investment Outreach
AiBC embarks on frequent investment and support outreach across the globe. Our investment outreach approach is strategically targeted at AIS in particular and Africa diaspora communities in general introducing and exposing the opportunities in the AIS regions and encourage them to invest in their communities. Owing to their small size, geographical remoteness, highly dispersed populations, the limited scale and undiversified nature of their economies, high dependence on external markets, and the effects of climate change, we recognize and understand that the AIS region can no longer rely only on the international financial architecture to fully address their unique development needs and make accessing concessional finance easier for them, which could mitigate their fiscal constraints.
International Events and Forums
We are actively involved in organizing, contributing and participating in major international conferences across Small Islands Developing States and beyond to make sure AIS diaspora is part of the conversation shaping the sustainable development, resilient prosperity and future of the AIS region and provide networking opportunities with stakeholders and businesses from other regions. Because we organize, participate in and promote international forums, investment conferences and other events across Africa and beyond, we do not only showcase opportunities and put AIS on the spotlight; we also create an avenue for networking opportunities with stakeholders and businesses from other regions.
Through our annual events, AiBC brings together AIS regions’ diaspora businesses, policy and development experts leveraging North-South, AIS-to-AIS, South-South cooperation including SIDS-to-SIDS to mobilize human, financial, technical and technological resources towards sustainable development and resilient prosperity of the AIS communities.
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