Come Thursday, 3rd of September, 2020 fashion entrepreneurs will be introduced to how the industry can survive the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic through the second episode of the Fashionomics Africa Webinar Series.
The Webinar is organized by the Gender, Women and Civil Society Department of the African Development Bank Group, AfDB, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP.
Themed “Building Back Better After COVID-19: Moving towards a more sustainable and inclusive fashion industry on the continent, the webinar will focus on how to build more resilient value chains and inclusive fashion industry on the continent going forward.
The panelists will discuss how “Fashionpreneurs” and micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises in Africa can build more sustainable and resilient textile value chains in a (post-) COVID-19 era through innovative business models that will keep garments in use longer, use renewable materials and recycle old clothes into new products. The line-up includes fashion entrepreneurs, industry experts, and business insiders.
The session will guide participants on how lessons from the current crisis can be used to address social and environmental problems in textile and fashion value chains; why sustainability should be on top of the agenda for businesses; what inspiration fashion entrepreneurs can stir in others across Africa; and discuss the future of the industry and the role of digitization in reducing environmental and social hazards.
Fashionomics Africa is an initiative of the African Development Bank Group to foster the fashion industry in Africa as a lever to create jobs with an objective to stimulate regional integration, intra-African trade, and entrepreneurship development and forge more equal societies.
This second episode will hope to build on the success of the first episode held in June 2020.
The first episode of the series dealt with the topic of “What the COVID-19 disruption means for Africa’s Fashion Market: Opportunities and Threats for Fashionpreneurs and Investors”.
