Overview
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) represents a major opportunity for countries to boost growth, reduce poverty, and broaden economic development.
This Executive Course is designed to provide delegates with a robust understanding and practical skills for developing critical value chains in their states/regions to maximize the opportunities presented by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement
It demonstrates the application of different techniques and models for systemic mapping of value chains, to identify upgrading opportunities and leverage points for sustainable value realization and development.
Learning Objectives and Benefits
Participants will learn to (4-5 succinctly stated):
- Understand the techniques for mapping and analyzing value chains for maximum social, and economic impact.
- Prioritize and develop value chains to take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
- Perform systematic evaluation of bottlenecks in value chains to identify upgrading opportunities for the African Continental Free Trade Area.
- Implement stakeholders’ approach to building inclusive value chains.
Who should attend
- This course is designed for senior executives in the public and private sectors who wish to develop their organizations’ value chains to maximize AfCFTA’s potential benefits.
- People who want to learn more about analyzing and transforming the value chains of critical sectors for inclusive socio-economic development are the target audience for this course.
- Policymakers in governments (at the state and national levels), particularly Permanent Secretaries and Directors in the Ministries of Trade and Commerce, Agriculture, Industry, and Export Promotions, will also benefit from this course.
Structure and Curriculum
Day 1: The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: Opportunities and Challenges
The concepts of value creation and value appropriation
Understanding how to map and analyze value chains for maximum social, and economic impact.
Day 2:
- How to Build Sustainable and Inclusive Value Chains (Case Study: Consensus Model for Value Chain Development)
- Value chain upgrading strategies: opportunities to boost your products’ global value.
- A structured approach to enhancing the value of your products (Case Study: Cambridge Value Analysis Model)
- African Continental Free Trade Area: Prioritizing value chains for the development (UNIDO’s value chain prioritization tool)
To reap the potential benefits of AfCFTA for inclusive growth, governments (national, state, and local) in African countries need first to develop their local value chains to be competitive in the regional market and enhance inclusive sustainable development.
Ethical Content: Does the programme have sessions or cases highlighting ethical issues in management and decision-making?
The programme does have opportunities for ethical issues in management such as in dealing with contract management, selling, and buying.
Admission process
Faculty
Dr. Ojadi has consulted widely for many companies (including banks, food and beverage and distribution and retail companies, and urban transport development) in the areas of procurement improvement and logistics and supply chain optimisation. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the South African-based Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management. Dr. Frank Ojadi obtained a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Ife in 1981 (now Obafemi Awolowo University), an MBA from the Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, and PhD in Transport Economics from the Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr Marvel Ogah is a full-time faculty and facilitates sessions in Operations Management at Lagos Business School.
Marvel has worked in plant leadership and consulting roles within multinational cum local business environments spanning over two decades of operations management experience in leading manufacturing and service-oriented teams towards organisational excellence. His areas of expertise include efficient plant management, supply chain, robust S&OP process, capability building, operations strategy, business process improvement, process efficiency sustainability, and lean enterprise. He also has expertise in Process Kaizen Event (PKE) deployment geared towards sustainable value-driven operations.
He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, an MBA (Operations Management) from Ambrose Alli University, Benin City, a PGD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos, and a doctorate from Walden University, Minneapolis, USA.
Testimonials
Upcoming Sessions and Contact
- Oluwakemi Mfon-Bassey
08086726686
omfon-bassey@lbs.edu.ng - Afolabi Oyewunmi
07019900756
aoyewunmi@lbs.edu.ng - Toba Olugosi
07080070553
Tolugosi@lbs.edu.ng
