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Arbitration Fund for African Students (AFAS). To advance education in the knowledge, skills, techniques, use and methods of arbitration.

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To advance education in the knowledge, skills, techniques, use and methods of arbitration.
Arbitration Fund for African Students (AFAS)
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Arbitration Fund for African Students (AFAS)

At the 2018 SOAS Arbitration in Africa conference held in Kigali, the young practitioners in attendance identified the unaffordability of arbitration conference attendance for themselves and African students as a hindrance to their career development. This led to a discussion on how best to support young practitioners and students to participate in arbitration-related moots and conferences. After the Kigali conference, Dr Emilia Onyema invited some academics and practitioners to join her in organising a Fund to meet this need. This led to the birth of the “Arbitration Fund for African Students” (AFAS) which was launched on 14 February 2019 at the SOAS Arbitration in Africa conference which held in Arusha.

The Objective of AFAS is to advance education in the knowledge, skills, techniques, use and methods of arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism.

AFAS, registered Charity under the Charities Act 2011 with Charity Number 1185823 – Charity Constitution

The Trustees are: Dr Nneka Emilia Onyema, Dr Chrispas Nyombi, Ms Eunice Shang-Simpson, and Joy Tabitha Raore.

AFAS wins the 2023 “New Initiative Award” of Arbitral Women 

AFAS is very pleased to announce that it has received some funding to support its arbitration/ADR project titled, “ADR Student Connect Network Project” from the ArbitralWomen New Initiative Award. 
 
Our project will engage with secondary schools and universities in selected African countries to introduce alternative dispute resolution processes and support the schools in forming mentoring clubs/groups to be monitored over one year. The first phase of this project will be delivered in Accra, Kampala, Nairobi and Kigali in 2024. 
 
In April 2024, in Accra AFAS will collaborate with GIMPA Law Faculty and Legacy Girls Secondary School; and in Kampala AFAS will collaborate with the Faculty of Law Makerere university and Our Lady of Good Counsel Secondary School in April 2024. The project will run in Nairobi in May and in Kigali in June 2024.
 
Project Sponsors: AFAS is very grateful to Onyema Arbitration Services Ltd, ArbitralWomen under their “New Initiative Award” and AFAS Trustees for sponsoring this project.