The Social Good Summit Geneva is an initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Geneva office that brings together high-level decision makers to forge partnerships for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
CTA organises an AgriTech and Food safety session during the summit.
An invitation-only event, the Social Good Summit Geneva offers unique and valuable networking opportunities. 250 participants are due to attend, including innovative start-ups, impact investors, development finance actors, Fortune 500 representatives, development agencies, and more.
20 developing country entrepreneurs, sourced through well-known and established global accelerators, pitch their products and services in sectors such as access to health and education, financial inclusion, food production, climate change, and agritech.
CTA sponsors once again four e-agricultural start-ups to take part to the summit. These four entrepreneurs are involved in the Pitch AgriHack initiative, which aims to accelerate youth e-agriculture entrepreneurship for growth and job creation. Three of them are winners of Pitch AgriHack 2018 ( CowTribe Africa, Illuminum Greenhouses Kenya and Fenou packaging), the last one is a previous participant (Save our Agriculture). These start-ups have the opportunity to pitch their business solutions, create partnerships and business opportunities.
UNDP works in some 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results. Inclusive growth, better services, environmental sustainability, good governance, and security are fundamental to development progress. We offer our expertise in development thinking and practice, and our decades of experience at country level, to support countries to meet their development aspirations and to bring the voices of the world’s peoples into deliberations. In 2016, UNDP is continuing its work to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or Global Goals, as they help shape global sustainable development for the next 15 years.
