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High Level Dialogue: Challenges of Regional Integration for Poverty Reduction
A High Level Dialogue on Regional Integration was held on 3rd November 2011, at the Sandton Convent ion Centre, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Dialogue was convened by the Southern Africa Trust (Trust) with the assistance of the Flemish Government, within the framework of the Flemish support for public discourse on regional integration.
The objective of the Dialogue was to look at innovative approaches to t he challenges pertaining to regional integration for poverty reduction.
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Pro-Poor Development at Regional Level - Challenges and Options
On May 11 and 12, 2011, the Southern Africa Trust supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur lnternationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ, held a workshop to identify obstacles of implementing the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) and Inclusive Business concepts that are specifically relevant for the southern African region. Companies actively developed a list of the major hindering factors and recommendations for the implementation of the above concepts based on the current regional integration approach.
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Businesses in southern Africa look at how their core business can boost pro-poor development
Businesses in southern Africa are looking at how to increasingly include low income groups in their business activities thereby improving the livelihoods of the poor. They agreed to develop recommendations on how best to do this during a workshop on Business Development at the Bottom of the Pyramid. More than 20 business leaders from Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe participated in the workshop in Midrand, South Africa, on 11 and 12 May 2011. It was hosted by the Southern Africa Trust and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German government.
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