“Thinking Outside the Box: Celebrating leadership & promoting collaboration and innovative solutions for a healthy and thriving Africa”

Speak Up Africa Day aims to foster collaboration and highlight innovative solutions to the pressing health challenges facing Africa. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, Speak Up Africa Day will provide a platform for celebrating leadership, exchanging best practices, forging new partnerships, and mobilizing resources to advance health outcomes across the continent.

We seek to achieve various objectives, which are to:

1. Explore Creative Solutions: Foster discussions on unconventional and creative solutions that advance public health with a gender and youth transformative lens for scale up and replicability.
2. Promote Collaboration: Facilitate a platform for stakeholders to share successful examples and case studies that have made a tangible impact on public health issues.
3. Share innovation approaches that was implemented at continental and regional levels to advance public health in order to favorize learning and exchange.
4. Enhance Local/ Regional Engagement: Discuss ways to empower Local and Regional communities and authorities through cooperation, ensuring their active involvement in public health- related decision-making processes.
5. Celebrate exemplary leadership in sustainable development: Recognize individual and organizations that bring a positive impact in their work and initiatives in Africa.

The expected outcomes are to:

1. Participants will gain insights into innovative ideas and approaches that can be applied to enhance access to adequate health services.
2. A repository of successful case studies and best practices will be established, fostering knowledge sharing among participants.
3. Strategies for greater involvement of women and youth in the management of public health issues are identified.
4. Leaders are recognized for their exemplary leadership in sustainable development.

The event format will be a combination of panel discussions, spotlight sessions and Speak Up Africa’s leadership award ceremony.  In 2019, Speak Up Africa launched its annual award program to recognize and celebrate individuals and organizations that demonstrate exemplary leadership in sustainable development and bring a positive impact in their work and initiatives in Africa.