ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CONFERENCE (ADFC) 2020 13TH TO 14th OCTOBER 2020

ANNUAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CONFERENCE (ADFC) 2020

 

13TH TO 14th  OCTOBER 2020

 

Venue: University of Nairobi, School of Business, Lower Kabete Campus,

Nairobi, Kenya

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

 

University of Nairobi, School of Business is pleased to call attention to the 2020 Annual Development Finance Conference (ADFC) to be held in October. The conference brings together academics, policy makers, doctoral students and practitioners from around the world to present research, network and collaborate.

 

THEME: ‘Environmental Finance and Sustainable Development Goals’.

 

Sub themes:

  1. Agricultural value chain finance
  2. Alternative Investment opportunities, avenues and assets
  3. Capital Formation in developing markets
  4. Capital market theory and development
  5. Country Competitiveness and Foreign Direct Investments
  6. Credit Markets and development
  7. Development Accounting and Standards
  8. Development Finance systems
  9. Digital Finance services (DFS), platforms and Eco - systems
  10. Emerging Financial technologies (Fintech) for development
  11. Environmental/Climate/Sustainable/Green finance
  12. External aid, trade and development
  13. Financial Development Pyramid Index
  14. Financial Markets Microstructure
  15. Financing Government Big 4 Agenda
  16. Health Financing
  17. Infrastructure Finance
  18. Manufacturing Finance
  19. Micro finance practices and schemes
  20. Public Accounting and Standards
  21. Public Financial management reforms and Development
  22. Taxation and Development

 

SUBMISSION DETAILS: The call for the submission of full papers, position papers or abstracts for review is now open. All abstracts should include a title, keywords, authors’ names, affiliation and an email address. The abstract should not exceed 500 words. A position paper should be a maximum of 4 pages in which the authors present their research, preliminary results, challenges, describe their approach and how it embeds theories, methods and techniques from various approaches of research. Submit your full papers, position papers or abstract in English, on or before June 30, 2020 preferably in MS Word to: editoradfj@uonbi.ac.ke 

REVIEW PROCESS: Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the conference committee led by the conference convener. Based on accepted submissions, the convener will form an expert panel by including fellow acknowledged international researchers.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Abstract submission deadline: 30th June, 2020.
  • Notification of acceptance: 30th June, 2020.
  • Deadline for payment for attendance and participation 14th September, 2020.
  • Conference Dates: 13th to 14th October, 2020

 

 

PARTICIPATION FEE

 

University of Nairobi Undergraduate Students

Ksh. 1,000

University of Nairobi Staff

Ksh. 1,000

University of Nairobi Postgraduate Students

Ksh. 2,000

Students from East Africa Community

Ksh. 2,000

International Students

$50

Participants from East Africa Community

Ksh. 5,000

International Participants

$100

 

 

BENEFITS

  • A certificate of participation/ attendance
  • Conference Proceedings Publication - The conference proceedings will be published in book form that complies fully with the Higher Education and Training requirements for accreditation.
  • An opportunity to develop the paper further for publication in ADFJ (ISSN. 2522-3186)

 

Conference Convenor: Dr. Duncan Elly Ochieng’ duncan.elly@uonbi.ac.ke

 

UoN School of Business Conferences Coordinator:  Prof Justus M Munyoki : jmmunyoki@uonbi.ac.ke

 

For details on Registration, please visit the UON Research week http://uonresearch.org/researchweek2020