Coca-Cola, Sterling Bank, UNGCN Nigeria to Co-Host ASIS

Sterling One Foundation’s strategic partners, The Coca-Cola Company Nigeria, Sterling Bank Limited, and the United Nations Global Compact Network Nigeria have restated commitment to advancing social impact across the continent by supporting the hosting of the Africa Social Impact Summit for the third year in a row, convening over 2,000 development leaders and professionals recently.

This move, which furthers each of the organizations’ commitment to driving more impact investment into critical sectors of the African economy while building stronger partnerships for the SDGs, can best be described as the type of long-term effort needed to tackle the continent’s developmental challenges.

 “ASIS is designed to address the COVID-19 setbacks faced by the African continent in achieving progress on the SDGs, amongst other development challenges by leveraging partnerships and we are grateful to have these partners who have been on board with the idea from Day 1,” explained Olapeju Ibekwe, CEO of Sterling One Foundation.

She added that the partners’ commitment to making real impact has been instrumental to the successes recorded by the Summit. 

Senior Director, Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability at Coca-Cola Nigeria, Amaka Onyemelukwe explained that partnership has always been at the core of the company’s strategy, making ASIS an important initiative to be a part of.

“What the Summit hopes to achieve in terms of effective regional partnerships is crucial for the development ecosystem in Africa and we are glad to support and help move it from ideas to action,” she mentioned.

The Africa Social Impact Summit which is convened by the Sterling One Foundation alongside the United Nations System in Nigeria, and a host of private-sector, media, and development partners aims to not only advocate better policies and build stronger partnerships but to become a platform for more impact investments, for both entrepreneurs and changemakers with impact-focused projects as well as for government development projects.  The third edition of the Summit perfectly captured this with an Investors’ Roundtable hosted by the Lagos State Government and the 3rd ASIS Deal Room which saw the signing of two deals worth $200,000 by ArtisanOga and PressPay, both tech startups in the talent management and education