Following GBSN's Health and Agribusiness Management & Leadership Workshop held at Strathmore Business School in Nairobi in April this year, GBSN has continued to work with African business schools interested in engaging in one or both of these important sectors.
After bringing together several business schools, NGOs, and development partners, GBSN worked with stakeholders to draft two business plans laying out points of intervention in each sector for business school engagement.
In the area of health, there are a number of African business schools currently working in this field, or in the process of creating capacity to enter this market, and several are working towards collaborative programs based on the relationships formed at the April workshop.
In Agribusiness, GBSN is pleased to announce that it will be partnering with the Association of African Business School (AABS) in an effort to move this initiative forward. AABS will continue to convene business schools interested in Agribusiness, aggregate resources through a useful website, and carry out market research to better understand the various players in agribusiness and their management training needs. GBSN and AABS hope to use this opportunity to design a new agribusiness program to be delivered by business schools on the continent, and will use this pilot to better understand the most effective interventions for business schools to promote strong agriculture growth and development.
For further information on this program, please contact Nora Brown at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and please join us for the Agribusiness Webinar in early 2011.
