About ATCAF 2024
Africa Tourism Climate Action Forum (ATCAF) 2024 is a sustainable tourism and climate conference as well as a women conference that would train 150 women and also recognize 150 women across Africa who have been pioneers, innovators, actors driving change across the continent. A minimum of 3 women are expected to be nominated from each of the 55 countries in Africa.
The conference calls for a shift and repositioning and amplifying the voices and defining the capacities of women in sustainable tourism and in Africa's energy transition and journey to net-zero.
ATCAF 2024 is a call for women's inclusion, leadership and empowerment in climate action and sustainable tourism development. Focus will therefore be on skills, innovation, knowledge transfer, gender inclusive policy making, gender inclusive climate leadership. Trainings and workshop empowering women in sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, creative industries, waste, tourism etc.
OBJECTIVES
For an empowered Africa, Africa must consolidate utilizing all its resources to advance into its desired future much of which is captured and driven by the AU agenda 2063. Women constitute 50 % of global population hence their partnership and inclusion are essential in the just transition.
- To highlight the importance of and celebrate the role of women in climate action and sustainable tourism bringing attention to the impacts and achievements of women over the years.
- To call for more women-centric, gender inclusive policy making, inclusion and leadership in climate governance and response.
- To promote the empowerment of women and call for greater access to resources to accelerate Africa's green development and net zero journey.
THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF AFRICA TOURISM DAY (ATD)
Africa Tourism Day (ATD) was founded on the 24th of May 2020 by Abigail Adesina Olagbaye, the founder of Sayari Dunia Sustainable Tourism Foundation (SDSTF) as an initiative to set aside a continental day to focus on tourism, recognizing its role and contribution to African economies, fostering understanding, unity, friendships, business and community development. The event was set up to demonstrate and showcase the alluring beauty of African destinations, the mesmerizing landscapes, didactic cultures, eclectic heritages and the power and creativity of 1.2 billion amazing people. To identify challenges, opportunities and to map solutions to the growth and sustainability of the tourism sector. The event debuted on the 26th of November in partnership with 22 organizations and media outfits including the Kingdom of Eswatini - based African Tourism Board.
The 26th of November, 2024 will mark the 5th edition of Africa Tourism Day hence it will be celebrated during the 2nd Africa Tourism Climate Action Forum ATCAF2024. A minimum of 50 African countries are expected at the momentous celebration on the 26th of November 2024.
2024 AS THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN 
The year 2024 was declared as the Year of the Woman at the 2023 edition of ATCAF which held in Ado-Ekiti in partnership with the Ekiti state government in recognition of the role and potential of women as strategic partners and agents of change, and as incubators and accelerators of sustainable development. It is also a call to put women at the front and centre of climate policy making and implementation and to advocate for access to resources as panache to building climate adaptation and resilience and enable the just transition. This is vital as we gradually advance towards the middle of the UN's Decade of Action and halfway to year 2030 which is the target year for reducing global emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.
Women are often the worst hit by the impacts of climate events, often suffering heightened gender inequality as climate extremes amplify inequalities, Gender-Based Violence, vulnerabilities, negative gender norms, during times of disaster hence, the need for their inclusion in climate leadership, policy making and solutions.
WOMEN IN TOURISM TRADE AND SUSTAINABILITY AFRICA (WITTSA)
WITTSA is a climate adaptation and resilience initiative for women which was launched during the 2023 edition of ATCAF. The initiative was set up to empower women across communities with green jobs and access to skills, finance and markets.
Africa Tourism Climate Action Forum ATCAF, Africa Tourism Day, and Women in Tourism Trade and Sustainability Africa WITTSA, are initiatives of Sayari Dunia Sustainable Tourism Foundation (SDSTF)
Provisional Event Schedule (Download link)
ATCAF 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
- November 6, 2024 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- ATCAF-ATD 2024 Preliminary Panel Sessions
- November 25 – 28th , 2024 – Ekiti and Osun States
- Opening Ceremony
- Youth Forum
- Speeches and Panel Discussions
- Cultural Performances
- Destinations Showcase
- Conference sessions
- Business Networking
- Innovations & Trade Exhibition
- Trainings and Workshop
- Investment Forum
- Awards
Topical Issues will include:
- Galvanizing Climate Action and Sustainable Tourism through the Power, Talent and Voice of Youths.
- Gender Inclusion and Access to Green Skills and Innovation as a Climate Adaptation Pathway.
- Re-examining and Facilitating Women's Access to Climate Finance.
- Unlocking the Power of Women's Leadership and Inclusion in Climate Action and Sustainable Tourism Development.
- Green Entrepreneurship and Industrialization as Panache for Transition to Green Economy in Africa.
- Climate Infrastructure and Investment.
- The Rights and Roles of Indigenous Women for Climate Action.
- Women as Torchbearers for the Next Frontier of Sustainable Tourism and Climate Action.
- Climate Justice and Equity for Women and Girls.
Information will be provided in due course
ATCAF 2024 - THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN
Theme:
REPOSITIONING WOMEN FOR THE NEXT FRONTIER OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND CLIMATE ACTION
Event Date:
6TH NOVEMBER 2024
Location:
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
ATCAF 2024 - THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN
Theme:
REPOSITIONING WOMEN FOR THE NEXT FRONTIER OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND CLIMATE ACTION
Event Date:
25TH - 28TH NOVEMBER 2024
Location:
EKITI & OSUN STATE, NIGERIA