Technical Workshop Agenda

Brought to you by:

• Safi Ngumbe Fannel, Manager, Safi Holding, Coordinator, Africa4herhub, DRC
• Georgea Mondjobe, Assistant Coordinator, Africa4herhub, Ambassador, Women living near mining activities, DRC
  
  Topic : The impact of the polluted Tshangalele lake – The Anna case study, victim of industrial and artisanal mining activities
  • What can be done to remedy the situation?
  • What solutions for women and children living on the shores of Lake Tshangalele?
  • How to reconcile mining and the local community?

Brought to you by:

• Nicolas Mwalukwik, Managing Executive Sales and Distribution, Vodacom Congo, DRC
  
  Topic: Reducing operational costs through connectivity and financial inclusion.
  • Reducing operational costs requires the implementation of effective strategies to improve the efficiency of a company's profitability. By investing in connectivity and financial inclusion, organizations working in the particular context of the DRC have the opportunity to improve productivity, customer satisfaction, business competitiveness and the living conditions of communities.

Brought to you by:

• Gilbert Lumbu, Chief Business Officer, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, DRC
• Kuben Reddy, Head of Platform Networks, Liquid C2, SA
• Wynard Richter, Head of Sales, Liquid Dataport, SA
• Abraham Makamba, Executive Managed Services Commercial and Sales, Liquid Zimbabwe
  
  Topic: Fundamentals of digital transformation
  • Presentation of Liquid's products and services with a focus on OneWeb and Private LTE.

Brought to you by:

• Laura Kokolo , Communication Manager, SEGUCE DRC, DRC
  
  Topic: Discovering the Guichet Unique Intégral de Commerce Exterieur (Guice) in DRC: Facilitating our imports and exports in DRC
  • What is GUICE? What is its role? What's in it for me?
  • Where, when and how can I learn about GUICE?
  • Demonstration of the GUICE efficiency tool.

Brought to you by:

• Luc Serviant, Group entreprise Director, Airtel Africa, Dubai
• Daddy Yogo Ngbabendo, Director, Airtel DRC SA, DRC
  
  Topic: Making your business upward and forward with solutions you can rely on
  • Steady and robust foundations for your business
  • Mining value proposition engaging with eco-system partners

Brought to you by:

• Paola Bottaro, Partnership Specialist, UNICEF, DRC
  
  Participants:
  
  • Grant Leaity, Representative United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, DRC
  • Ramatou Toure, Head of Protection Section, UNICEF, DRC
    
    This session will consist of
    • The context of deprivation of children's rights
    • UNICEF's response: Strengthening the child protection system
    • UNICEF's response: Establishing strategic partnerships with mining companies contributing to the promotion and realization of children's rights
    • Interactive session (UNICEF/Miners Q&A)

Brought to you by:

• Agnes Kabwiz A Kabey, Program Manager, President, Federation of Women Entrepreneurs in Mining, Agro-Pastoral and Other Sectors in Congo (FEMIAC), COMEMA, DRC
• Kelly Kembia Wa Kapenda, Vice-President, COMEMA, DRC

Topic: Mining Crafts, a social and community fact in DRC

• What strategies for a solid integration of women in the mining value chain in this period of energy transition in the World?

Brought to you by:

• Nyembo Wa Sangwa Taty Ken, Technical Sales Engineer, Panaco, DRC
  
  Topic: Maximize production through power quality control
  • Current energy transition in the DRC
  • Controlling power quality
  • Increasing production through power quality

Brought to you by:

• Félicien Mbikayi Cimanga, Country Representative, Impact, DRC
  
  Topic:
  Strategies to combat child labor in the mining sector: supporting women's security and livelihoods.
  • What are the challenges and opportunities for women in the artisanal cobalt mining sector in the DRC?
  • Root causes of child labor in the mining sector: why does it persist?
  • What is the link between women's safety and child labor?
  • What strategies can we adopt to combat child labor?

Brought to you by:

• Fabien Mayani, Head of Programme Human Rights and Just transition, Carter Center
  
  Topic: Unlocking Potential: Private sector engagement and European investments in the EU-DRC Partnership on sustainable critical and strategic raw materials value chains
  • Presenting the EU Critical Raw Materials Act: objectives and related implications.
  • EU and DRC perspectives on the operationalisation of the EU-DRC Partnership and private sector engagement.
  • Exploring challenges and opportunities in key sectors: energy, infrastructures and the development of the Lobito corridor, enhancing local value chains.
  • Mobilizing financial instruments and leverage for investment: what is available and how to unlock it.
  • Examples from the field: EU projects in DRC advancing private sector involvement to support the integration of sustainable raw materials value chains.

Brought to you by:

• Bonheur Ntambwe, Expert Formation Emploi – Private sector prospecting VET, Tool Box, DRC

• The limits of the normative framework regulating professional internships in the DRC;
• The reasons for a professional internship in a company;
• The challenges facing the world of education in supporting the socio-professional integration of young people and supervising interns within companies.
• Enabel's assessment of the practice of in-company work placements.
  
  Participants:
  • H.E. Roxane de Bilderling, Belgian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Léonie Muyombe, Director Resource Center, Haut Katanga, DRC
  • Jean Luc Mpoyo, Provincial Director, FEC Haut Katanga, DRC
  • Jacques Kapumba, Director of Human Resources, EGMF (Entreprise Générale Malta Forrest)
    of the FORREST Group, DRC
  • Jean-Claude Kanyiki, Civil Engineer Mechanic and accredited trainer, Caterpillar, DRC
  • Lorenzo Giacomin, Portfolio Manager, Enabel, RDC