Interactive Roundtable Discussions
Schedule for Round Table Rotations: offering delegates the opportunity to participate in various discussions:
– Round Table Rotation 1: 15:00 – 15:40
– Round Table Rotation 2: 15:45 – 16:25
– Round Table Rotation 3: 16:30 – 17:10 Venue: Hall A, B – Ground floor
UNLOCKING PROJECTS:
ACCESSING RESOURCES TO SUPPORT PROJECTS
A curated array of climate and sustainability funds, tools, and resources, specifically centred around Africa, will spearhead individual round table discussions. These sessions will provide invaluable insights into the various funding and support options available, aimed at bolstering projects throughout the continent.
Roundtable Hosts:
1.GSMA Mobile for Development Digital solutions and innovative partnerships to scale access to essential services
Innovative service delivery models for utility services across African cities.
Public private partnerships and innovative financing for essential services such as energy, water, sanitation, waste management, and transport.
Overcoming barriers to scale for private sector innovators.-George Kibala Bauer, Director, Digital Utilities, GSMA Mobile for Development, UK
Who should Attend: Start-ups, utilities/government, mobile operators, public or private financial institutions, enabling organisations working on essential service provision
————————————————————
2. British International Investment (BII)
Sustainable development, Climate Finance and Transition Finance: The need for innovation solutions to facilitate a just transition to Net Zero.
BII will provide an overview of its net zero transition strategy and innovative financial products aimed at accelerating decarbonisation efforts in sectors critical to economic development.
– Saphira Patel, Climate Change Manager, BII
Who Should Attend : Public and private sector, development finance institutions, project developers, and impact investors looking to support a Just and Inclusive Transition to a low car-bon future.
———————————————————–
3. AfDB – The Green Investment Program for Africa (GIPA)
Meet the African Development Bank team to learn more about – the Green Investment Program for Africa (GIPA) developed to exponentially increase inflows of climate finance and green investments to support African countries’ sustainable development agenda.
– Gerald Njume, Principal Climate Change and Green Growth Officer, AfDB, Cote d’Ivoire
– Mwila Musumali, Regional Climate Change and Green Growth Officer, AfDB, South Africa
Who Should Attend: Officials from national development financial institutions responsible for assessing climate risk and promoting climate finance projects such as project developers, sponsors, investors, banks, insurance, impact investors, SMEs, and leasing companies about green investment opportunities.
————————————————————
4. Climate Fund Managers (CFM)
Leveraging blended finance structuring, CFM draws both public and private capital to invest in high-impact sectors, providing innovative financing solutions for infrastructure developers in areas such as renewable energy, water sanitation, and ocean sectors, facilitating investments throughout the entire project lifecycle.
– Kevin Anderson, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Climate Fund Managers (CFM), South Africa
-Darron Johnson, Regional Head: Africa, Climate Fund Managers (CFM), South Africa*
Who should attend: Project developers/sponsors seeking funding
————————————————————
Oceans Finance Company (OFC)
Pioneering a new innovative funding mechanism for large scale conservations and biodiversity.
5. Oceans Finance Company (OFC) – Sanlam Investments
Enabling commercial funding mechanisms for large scale nature-based solutions in Africa.
Delivering on the impact benefits of, inter alia, ecosystem restoration and resilience, biodiversity enrichment, carbon sequestration, as well as growth of associated industries from the management of natural capital.
Erik Wandrag, CEO, Oceans Finance Company, The Netherlands
Todd Micklethwaite, Head of Strategy & Impact (Alternatives), Sanlam Investments, South Africa
Who should attend:
- Private financial institutions which provide long-term debt finance
- Public institutions which can provide donor, grant or concessional capital, first loss or guarantee instruments that enable natural capital initiatives focused on crowding in the private sector
- Conservation and biodiversity organisations, related entrepreneurs and associated businesses
———————————————————–
6. AFD CITYRIZ Risk-sharing Guarantee Credit risk sharing to foster sustainable investments
Banking tools for financing African local governments.
– Constant Harbonn, CITYRIZ coordinator, VIL /SDD Public Finance and Decentralisation Unit, France
– Sarah Pilgrim, Head, Financial Sector, Southern Africa, French Development Agency (AFD), France
Who should Attend: Public or private financial institutions who lend to local public sector / local governments or municipal operators
————————————————————
7. African Cities Water Adaptation Fund (ACWA Fund):
– Pablo Lazo, Director of Urban Development, WRI, Mexico
– Todd Gartner, Director: Cities4Forests and Natural Infrastructure, WRI, USA
– Aklilu Fikresilassie, Director, Thriving Resilient Cities, WRI Africa, Ethiopia
– Amanda Gcanga, Senior Policy Analyst & Country Lead for Urban Water Resilience Initiative, WRI, South Africa
– Daniel Seddon-Daines, Associate Director, Pegasys Consulting, UK
—————————————————–
8. African Water Infrastructure Development (AWID) platform
AWID, a first-of-its-kind platform to develop climate-smart water projects at scale and to increase water security across Africa, will finance water and wastewater management treatment plants as well as develop and construct world-class facilities, with a clear focus on countries that are most vulnerable to the climate crisis.
– Ernest Poku, Executive Director, Africa Water Infrastructure Development Ltd (AWID), Dubai, UAE
Who should Attend: Cities, Municipalities and government bodies responsible for infrastructure development, project developers, interested investors, DFIs and commercial lenders.
——————————————————————-
9. IFC ‘Water PPPs for Cities’
Developing wastewater treatment, reuse and desalination infrastructure through hybrid-financed (public-private) structures; examples from the World Bank experience.
– Nicolas Saporiti, Senior Investment Officer, Infrastructure and Transaction Advisory, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
– Rajeev Gopal, Senior Country Officer, South Africa, eSwatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe, IFC
Who should Attend: National, Subnational (e.g. Municipalities) government entities, water authorities interested in considering alternative infrastructure procurement models.
—————————————————————
10. Afreximbank
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) supports the promotion of Intra-African Trade, Industrialization and Export Development activities across the continent in a sustainable manner. Afreximbank supports the development and implementation of impactful projects across the entire project finance value chain encompassing project preparation, project finance, risk bearing instruments, advisory and capital markets, syndication services and trade finance solutions. The Bank through the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), its wholly owned subsidiary, supports equity projects.
– Zitto Alfayo, Head, Project Preparation, Afreximbank, UK
– Amr Roshdy, Analyst, Project Preparation, Afreximbank, Egypt
Who Should Attend:
- Government authorities or representatives keen to develop projects across the continent that will promote Intra-Africa Trade, Industrialization and Export Development activities in a sustainable manner
- SMEs, Public and private sector project developers keen to tap into project preparation, project finance, risk bearing instruments solutions
- Multilateral, regional and local development financial institutions keen to collaborate with the Afreximbank
- Regulators and policy makers
; ?>/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/agesagenda.png)
.webp)
.webp)
.webp)
.webp)
