Sterling One Foundation and the United Nations have unveiled details of the forthcoming Africa Social Impact Summit (ASIS 3.0) 2024.

The announcement was made by the CEO of Sterling One Foundation, Olapeju Ibekwe, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator of United Nations in Nigeria, Mohammed Malick Fall and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bank Plc, Abubakar Suleiman.

at the event held in Lagos were Executive Director of MTN Foundation, Odunayo Sanya; Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor on Commerce, Cooperatives, Trade and Investments, Hauwa Adeeyo and CEO of ABC Health, Dr Mories Atoki.

ASIS, which started in 2022, has grown into a significant platform for driving social impact across Africa. The summit aims to bring together various stakeholders from the public sector, private sector and development ecosystem to create effective partnerships and advocate for impactful policies.

CEO, Sterling One, Olapeju Ibekwe, stated, “The Africa Social Impact Summit has three major goals: to galvanise effective partnerships across the public sector, private sector and the development ecosystem, to advocate for policies that will attract investments in major development sectors and to ensure impactful investments in those sectors.

“We are pleased to announce that over 40 per cent of last year’s participants have received various levels of investment.

“One significant example is the MTN Foundation’s investment of over N3 billion to support primary healthcare centers across the country in partnership with the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria. This year, we will host an investors’ roundtable on July 24th at the Eko Convention Centre as a pre-event engagement before the summit on July 25th and 26th.”

Sulieman, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Sterling One, expressed confidence in the summit’s collaborative potential, saying: “As I walked into this room, I realised that our collective effort can achieve our goals. The institutions represented here demonstrate that we are well on our way to success.

“At Sterling Bank, we have always believed in using our trusted position to solve problems by galvanising partnerships. In the social impact scene, we are many but often weak due to being distributed and disconnected. Size matters and the beauty of what we do at Sterling One is our willingness to partner, co-convening with the United Nations.”

Registration is currently ongoing for the ASIS summit, which will take place on July 25th and 26th at Eko Hotels, Lagos.

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