Africa investor SDGs Business Statement

This Business Statement is the result of a 12-month Africa investor (Ai) consultative process with over 200 business leaders and investors operating in Africa. Consultations took place in New York at the Ai Heads of State Investment Advisory Council in partnership with the UN Office of the Special Adviser for Africa and the African Union. Consultations also took place at the New York Stock Exchange during the 2014 UN General Assembly, the Ai World Bank Strategic Bankers’ Dialogues at both the 2014 World Bank Annual Meetings and the 2015 Spring Meetings, alongside the recent launch of the African Union-NEPAD Continental Business Network in Cape Town, and at a dedicated side event at the Financing for Development (“FfD”) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July 2015, organised in association with the Global Clearinghouse for Development Finance.