{"id":17,"date":"2026-03-13T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:52:27","slug":"pages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"Flagship Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Polish\u2013African Development Congress (PAKR)<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Polish\u2013African Development Congress (PAKR)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the flagship event platform of the Diplomacy &amp; Business Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Congress brings together representatives of governments, diplomatic missions, international organizations, businesses, and experts to discuss economic cooperation, development challenges, entrepreneurship, and the role of diplomacy in shaping sustainable international partnerships between Poland and African countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PAKR functions as a space for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">diplomatic and institutional dialogue,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">business and investment discussion,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exchange of experience and expertise,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">development of long-term public\u2013private partnerships.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Congress reflects DBF\u2019s belief that <\/span><b>dialogue between diplomacy and business is essential for economic development<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and that <\/span><b>governmental and institutional decisions significantly influence the conditions in which economic cooperation takes place<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Further information<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83d\udc49 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dbf-global.org\/bakr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Visit the Polish\u2013African Development Congress website<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(link to PAKR website)<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83d\udc49 <\/span><b>Download the Polish\u2013African Development Congress presentation (PDF)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish\u2013African Development Congress (PAKR) The Polish\u2013African Development Congress (PAKR) is the flagship event platform of the Diplomacy &amp; Business Foundation. The Congress brings together representatives of governments, diplomatic missions, international organizations, businesses, and experts to discuss economic cooperation, development challenges, entrepreneurship, and the role of diplomacy in shaping sustainable international partnerships between Poland and African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbf-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}