Today, I was honoured to moderate the UNHCR Nigeria Panel on ‘Enabling Private Sector Solutions in Forced Displacement Contexts – The Nigerian Experience,’ as a specially invited Moderator at the Africa Social Impact Summit, held under the theme ‘Reimagining Progress: A New Blueprint for Sustainable Growth in Africa’ by the Sterling One Foundation and the United Nations in Nigeria with Lagos State as the 2024 Host City.

The largest in-person gathering of critical public, private, and development sector leaders across Africa to engage in regional inclusive development dialogues, I was thrilled as my expert panellists: Mr. Arjun Jain, UNHCR Nigeria Country Representative, Ms. Ojong Annette Nkongho, Cameroonian Refugee and beneficiary of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Cuso International, Livelihood Intervention, Mr. Farouk Gumel, Vice Chairman of The Tropical General Investments Limited Company
clicktgi.net and Chairman of Union Bank Nigeria, and Mr. Abubakar Suleiman, CEO, Sterling Bank, energised the incisive discussions on activating and actualising impact investment to shape and scale market-led solutions with economic inclusion for refugees and displaced persons in mind towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Approximately 120 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced today due to persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations. Of this, over 3.5 million forcibly displaced people in Nigeria, representing almost 3% of forcibly displaced people worldwide.

The Wellbeing Foundation Africa through our 36 Million Solutions commitment, delivers frontline programming support to refugees and internally displaced persons as agents of change, who contribute towards meeting Nigeria’s Sustainable Development Goals targets and the Renewed Hope Agenda, encouraging proper practices and approaches towards intergenerational socio-economic transformations.

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