The Swedish – East African Chamber of Commerce Business & Investment Forum (SWEACC- Business & Investment Forum) is an annual forum organized by SWEACC in partnership with East Africa Community (EAC) member state Embassies in the Nordic region for purposes of fostering business, trade and investment between Sweden, and the countries in the EAC. The Forum provides opportunities for Business to Business (B2B), Government to Government (G2G) and Business to Government (B2G) meetings to develop new, meaningful, and sustainable trade, technological exchange, and investment partnerships between investors in Sweden and the EAC member states.

This years’ Forum will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on 27th April, 2022. The last forum (EAC-BIF 2021) was held virtually on 27th April, 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

The theme of the SWEACC-Business Forum 2022 is “Digitalization for Societal Development”, with a focus on the following five areas:

• Healthtech

• Edutech

• Fintech

• Greentech

• Agritech

Read more and register for the event

Venue: ZOOM LINK, distributed after registration

All members with valid membership by June 1st 2021 are welcome to attend and vote at the meeting.

The Annual Report for 2020, the reports and the proposal from the election committee will be available on demand from SWEACC after 19th May 2021 on info@sweacc.se

Please register with e-mail to info@sweacc.se no later than the 1st of June for participation at the AGM. Please make sure to register your company name and your phone number in the e-mail.

After the AGM, you are invited to a stay at an informal Q&A, open for discussions and proposals for SWEACC related activities and actions.

Agenda Annual General meeting 2021:

1.       Election of Chairman of the meeting

2.       The establishing of a voting register

3.       Election of Secretary of the meeting

4.       Election of two members to check the minutes

5.       The question as to whether the meeting has been duly convened

6.       Presentation of the Annual Report of the Board including the financial statement

7.       Presentation of the auditor’s report for the past financial year

8.       Decision on

a.       profit-and-loss account and balance sheet

b.       distribution of the company’s profit or loss according to the approved balance sheet

c.       whether the board shall be granted discharge from liability

9.       Decision about the annual fees for members and the budget.

10.   Election of Chairman, vice Chairman and Board members for a period of two years

11.   Election of two auditors

12.   Election of three members to the election committee,

13.   Other matters submitted by the Board or submitted by one or several members in writing for discussion and decision at the general meeting

WELCOME

The Board of the Swedish – East African Chamber of Commerce

Stockholm in May 2021

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Energy is key to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change. However, we are still far from where we should be to meet the SDG7 targets by 2030.

The event will be held over Zoom. Register no later than May 24 to info@sweacc.se

In collaboration with SWEACC the Sida Power Africa team invites you to join a dialogue on how to access development financing for renewable energy projects in Africa.

Program

Welcome and Introduction to the dialogue and the participants

Jessica Magnusson, Senior Advisor at Sida Power Africa

Jan Furuvald, Chairman of Swedish East-African Chamber of Commerce (SWEACC)

Brenda Tibamwenda Kandabu, Secretary General, Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UNCCI)

Introduction to Sida Power Africa

Anders Arvidson, Team Lead Sida Power Africa and Regional Advisor, Embassy of Sweden in Kenya.

Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa and Clean Cooking Solutions

Ash Sharma, Head, Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa and Senior Director at NEFCO, will introduce the recently launched Call for Proposals in Uganda. A catalytic procurement mechanism that is expected to offer incentives for off-grid energy service providers to establish up to 600,000 energy connections that will benefit more than 3 million people in rural areas.

Emerging Cooking Solutions’

CEO Mattias Ohlson shares his experience of entering a new market and scaling its operations to reach 20,000 customers in Zambia and developing new cooking technologies that could potentially mitigate 1 gigaton of CO2 per year.

Dialogue on the challenges to do business in the renewable energy sector in Africa

Moderated by Jessica Magnusson, Power Africa and Tom Walsh, Head of Green City Cluster at SWEACC.

Closing session

See full program as PDF

In collaboration with:

• Sida

• Power Africa

• Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry

• Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa

Uganda is a very interesting and growing market in East Africa. Today close to 50 million people and a market-based economy rich in natural resources, and one of the fastest and youngest growing populations in the world. SWEACC's Green City Cluster will arrange a special meeting in Stockholm focusing on waste to energy and other renewable energy solutions in Uganda and East Africa. We will have stake holders and business people visiting from Uganda and East Africa and this will be a day to listen to new innovations and technologies but also to discuss actual business opportunities in East Africa.

During this event we will discuss waste management and waste to energy opportunities in Uganda and East Africa, and some of the solutions we provide from Sweden. Part of the event will be a business match-making session.

Agenda Green City meeting

• 09:00 Registration opens, we offer coffee, tea and light snack.

• 09:30 Jakob Fries, Sweco (and Green City Cluster), will open the meeting with an introduction of Sweco’s work in Africa.

  • Najib Lukooya (PhD), Deputy Director, Public Health and Environment, KCCA, KCCA’s Strategic Direction and Opportunities for Waste to Energy.

  • James Maitek, Sewerage and Sanitation Services, National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), the potential for WtE in FSM

  • Hans-Olof Rauman, Business Sweden, will come and present a recent MOU for future Swedish projects in Uganda and how Team Sweden can offer both innovation and finance to foreign markets.

  • Lauri Tuomaala (TBC), EEP Africa, "Clean energy powering green growth" - New EEP funding call for 2020. 10.45

  • Tom Walsh, Renetech (and Green City Cluster), will lead a joint Q&A and closing remarks Date: February 19th, 2020. Coffee, tea and light snack will be offered.

Time: 09.30 – 12:00 (11:00 to 12:00 reserved for business mingle). Venue: Sweco office, Gjörwellsgatan 22, Stockholm RSVP: As soon as possible to info@sweacc.se, seats are limited and all visitors must be pre-registered. We will confirm each seat. This special event is by invitation only and free of charge for all SWEACC members. For non-members event the normal fee is 450 kr but we practice free admittance to first time and special guests. No matter if you are or not a member, if you register and don’t attend or cancel later than 24 hours before the event, we reserve the right to debit 450 kr + VAT (moms).

Swedish-East Africa Chamber of Commerce (SWEACC) has a cluster focusing on Healthcare in Africa. Cluster Managers are Anders Wikman and Fredrik Agerhem. Healthcare including Medtech and Digital Health have been in focus inside SWEACC for a long time. Last year we partnered with Swecare and the EAC Embassies to arrange the EAC Business & Investment Forum 2018 in Rwanda with the theme ”Health and Growth”, focusing on Medtech and ICT. The Healthcare Cluster continuously develop to improve trade and investment within Healthcare in Africa.

We want to highlight interesting Swedish innovation, know-how and experiences with African healthcare opportunities. As a member in our Healthcare cluster you will be able to access information about current business opportunities, exchange experiences and access financing and other resources for specific projects you might have. This time we will focus on some case studies in Eastern Africa.

Agenda Healthcare Cluster 2019-11-28

• Anders Wikman, introducing of our new Cluster Manager.

• Heaven Bereket, case study from projects in Ethiopia.

• Mustafa Ahmed, case study from project in Somalia.

• Staffan Ahl from Swedfund, ways of funding your healthcare business in Africa.

• Mikaela Annerling from Swecare (TBC) – Report from Team Sweden visit (High level Swedish business delegation) to Ethiopia in November.

• Open discussion and business mingle

The event is free of charge for all SWEACC members, for non-members the event fee is 450 SEK, but as a first-time guest you are welcome for free. Please note that if you register and don’t attend or cancel 24 hours before the event, we reserve the right to debit 450 SEK + VAT (moms) for our expenses (member or non-member). For further information – please call or e-mail Anders Wikman at +46707145085 or e-mail at a.wikman@telia.com

Welcome!

The Swedish East African Chamber of Commerce.

Invitation to Ghana-Sweden Business Forum on 22 November. At the occasion of the visit in Sweden of a trade delegation from Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs would like to cordially invite you to Ghana-Sweden Business Forum. The event will take place on 22 November from 08:30 to 12:00 at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. The Ghanaian trade delegation will be headed by Mr. Yofi Grant, CEO of Ghana Investment Promotion Centre.

 The delegation consists of companies operating in a variety of sectors such as ICT, agribusiness, construction, energy, natural resources, waste management and recycling. The main objective with the visit is to create networks and discuss business opportunities and investment possibilities for Swedish actors in Ghana.

 The Forum is co-organized together with Business Sweden, Sweden-Sub Saharan African Chamber of Commerce (SSACC), Sweden-West Africa Business Association (SWABA) and the Swedish-East African Chamber of Commerce (SWEACC).

Welcome to Ghana-Sweden Business Forum!

Kindly RSVP by 19 November to Lovi Nordgren at lovi.nordgren@gov.se

At the occasion of the visit in Sweden of a trade delegation from Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs would like to cordially invite you to Ghana-Sweden Business Forum. The event will take place on 22 November from 08:30 to 12:00 at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. The Ghanaian trade delegation will be headed by Mr. Yofi Grant, CEO of Ghana Investment Promotion Centre.

The delegation consists of companies operating in a variety of sectors such as ICT, agribusiness, construction, energy, natural resources, waste management and recycling. The main objective with the visit is to create networks and discuss business opportunities and investment possibilities for Swedish actors in Ghana.

The Forum is co-organized together with Business Sweden, Sweden-Sub Saharan African Chamber of Commerce (SSACC), Sweden-West Africa Business Association (SWABA) and the Swedish-East African Chamber of Commerce (SWEACC).

Welcome to Ghana-Sweden Business Forum!

Kindly RSVP by 19 November to Lovi Nordgren at lovi.nordgren@gov.se

SWEACC have partnered with our member Tellux to support them with Kenyan Business Forum in Uppsala on October 30th. Visiting the Kenyan Business Forum is a very interesting delegation from Kenya that Deputy President William Rutu (most likely) will lead. This is politician, public servant and business leaders from Kenya visiting Sweden and during their visit an agreement will be signed between the City of Västerås and Kericho County to prepare for an upcoming partnership agreement through ICLD (Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy).

Kenya is a very interesting marketing in East Africa, and it has around 55 million people today and what is interesting is that government decision and investments many times are decentralized. Besides business and investment opportunities in Nairobi we are going to listen to some business opportunities from Nakuru County with some 1,7 million people, Bungoma County with a population of around 1.4 million and finally Kericho County with a population of 750.000 people.

 Program - Kenya Business Forum

• Forum opens at 09:00 Kristallen Business Centre, Uppsala

• Opening speech with introduction of Kenya Delegation

• Presentation Tellux and business in Kenya

• Presentation SWEACC and our initiatives for East Africa

• Kenyan delegation will introduce business and investment opportunities such as;

  • Solar Water Pumps Projects in Kericho County.  

  • Solar farm in Kericho and Nakuru County

  • Hydropower in Buchango, Bungoma County.

  • Clean water solutions in Nairobi

  • Agri business in Kenya

• Lunch break 13:00

• Business Forum restart 14:00

• Presentation Againity AB

• Presentation Glava Energi AB

• Presentation WSP Geothermical

• Presentation Solenergi – Alf Björseth

• Business Forum ends with business mingle

Ticket: Ticket is 295 kr (SWEACC members) including coffee and lunch.
Date: October 30th 2019, coffee, tea and lunch will be offered.
Time: 09.00 – 17:00 (15:30 to 17:00 reserved for business mingle).
Venue: Kristallen Business Centre, Uppsala.
RSVP: Send your inquiry to attend to info@tellux.se as soon as possible
               but no later than October 25th.

Please note, ticket price is 395 kr but SWEACC members 295 kr. Ticket will be paid at venue place and available seat will be confirmed to each person. All visitors must be pre-registered.
Welcome to Kenya Business Forum on October 30th.

Sincerely Yours, SWEACC

This will be an open invent where both NGO members and companies are welcome to join in to discuss how Companies can grow their business together with NGOs. We will have speakers from Sightsavers, Inclusive Business Sweden and KWETU Connectors. Final program will be published in August.

Early bird to info@sweacc.se but more information will follow later.

We have a very interesting delegation from Ghana coming to Sweden in August and we invite all SWEACC members of our cluster Green City and others interested in sustainable business to join us for a discussion about renewable energy, waste management and waste to energy with one of the largest operator in Africa. Our headline for this day is;  Waste to energy and sustainably solutions in Ghana and rest of Africa. This will be a morning meeting but we also offer one to one meetings after lunch for those interested.

RSVP: As soon as possible to event@bopen.se (seats are limited, and we reserve the right to confirm each seat), all visitors must be pre-registered.