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TASC Symposium: Building Capacity for Growth in Africa

The event "Building Capacity for Growth in Africa," explored the most critical poverty reduction and economic development challenges in Africa. Participants discussed the role of the United States and generated concrete policy ideas for Congress and the administration.

Co-hosts included: ONE, Bread for the World, Brookings Institution, Oxfam America, Constituency for Africa, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, Center for Global Development, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Alliance to End Hunger, and Women Thrive Worldwide.

Jamie Drummond, Executive Director of ONE delivering the Keynote Address

Mimi Alemayehou, U.S. Executive Director of the African Development Bank and other members of the audience

Claude Fontheim, Chairman of TASC and Jamie Drummond, Executive Director of ONE

Devry Boughner of Cargill, Inc.; Zahid Torres-Rahman of Business Action for Africa; Katrin Kuhlmann of TASC and Steve Radelet of Center for Global Development discuss building capacity for economic growth in Africa

Ann Tutwiler of USAID directs a question to the panel

Steve Radelet of the Center for Global Development and Gayle Smith of the National Security Council

Gregory Simpkins of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation

Deputy Chairperson Mwencha of the African Union Commission takes questions from the audience while Katrin Kuhlmann, then-President of TASC, moderates

Deputy Chairperson Mwencha of the African Union Commission gives luncheon remarks

Lael Brainard, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs discusses challenges to economic growth in Africa

Jamie Drummond, Executive Director of ONE and Deputy Chairperson Mwencha of the African Union Commission converse during a break

Stephen Morrison of CSIS; Lawrence Jones of the University of Washington, and Dr. Libidwe Sibanda of FANPRAN (South Africa)

Gabriel Laizer and Emily Nohner of the Alliance to End Hunger and Isak Pretorius of Joint Aid Management (South Africa)

Savior Mwambwa of Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (Zambia)

Congressman Jim McDermott provides remarks at the reception

Melvin P. Foote of Constituency for Africa; Jodi Jacobson of the American Jewish World Service; Reed Kramer of All Africa Global Media; Tom Freedman of Freedman Consulting and Grant Aldonas of CSIS dsicuss Africa, U.S. politics and the Public

Congressman Jim McDermott speaks to Dr. Libidwe Sibanda of South Africa and Savior Mwambwa of Zambia at the reception

Audience members Bill Jackson, Nancy Carter Foster of the U.S. Department of State, Danielle Langton of the Congressional Research Service, Erin Tunney of Bread for the World, and Jamie Drummond of ONE participate in the discussion with the panelists

Congressman Jim McDermott and Legislative Director Jayme White speak with Ambassador Ronald Eng of Cambodia

Grant Aldonas of CSIS moderating a panel on Africa, U.S. politics, and the public.

Photos by Douglas DeMark