How government agencies can develop bankable infrastructure and energy projects?

• Designing an optimal risk sharing protocol at project development stage, identifying potential investors and lenders and conducting market sounding exercises
• Satisfying project risk profiles and developing early market-led risk sharing protocols before presenting projects to banks

Identifying the most suitable party to identify project evaluations both in terms of cost and value

• Assessment of risk reduction - The rise of the independent risk  valuator
• Outsourcing expertise in procurement and project cost projection Training - Day 1 – 22nd October 2019
• Understanding a comparison between unit price and fixed price contracts

• How Government Agencies can implement “Value for Money” assessments - identifying priority government projects available public investment and value for money against traditional procurement vs PPP
• Looking at your current spending limits and budgetary control  mechanisms for PPP projects
• Removing the budgetary appeal – mechanisms to remove the ability to borrow off- balance sheet

How government departments can improve transparency in reporting of PPP projects

Case Study Session – In this session, participants from Government will outline the successful journey to “value for money” assessments and some of the key challenges and lessons learnt from the experience

Roundtable discussion over the previous sessions for the synergies and implications of the different participants from the “wish list” to the financing through well-prepared projects.

Master of Ceremony: Welcome remarks: Mahad Ahmed, Managing Director, Ametrade Welcome addresses from Sponsors: Welcome Remarks:

An Overview of recent projects and achievements

• Recent Trends in infrastructure project finance and finance structures
• Where are institutional investors contributing and to what extent can this participation increase
• To what extent can infrastructure guarantees increase market participation?
• Getting the $2.4 trillion - 2030 – 2040 – How markets, transparency and structures will need to adapt?

• Dr. Joseph Essandoh-Yeddu, Director, Strategic Planning and Policy, Energy Commission Ghana
• Symerre Grey-Johnson, Head of the Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade Programme, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD

• Analyzing sufficient conditions for leveraging capital markets potential for PPPs  
• How could infrastructure debt be made more attractive to institutional investors?
• What is the appetite of banks for political and FX risk in project finance deals?
• PPPs and the hidden debt liabilities – Are there more efficient funding arrangements?
• How important is transparency, regulatory enhancement and regional investment liberalization in attracting institutional investment?

Moderator :

Speakers:

• Noman Siddiqui, Manager of PPP Division, Islamic Development Bank

• Scrutinizing opportunities for infrastructure players
• What opportunities exist for waste to energy, IPP and renewable
  development?
• What can we expect from project pipelines?
• How much investment is needed in transmission and distribution
  infrastructure to sufficiently upgrade the network?
• Identifying technologies changing the energy infrastructure landscape
• Identifying technologies changing the transport infrastructure landscape

Moderator:

Speakers:

• Gabriel T Aduda, Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs Office, The Presidency, Government of the Federation, Nigeria
• Senior Representative, Power Africa, South Africa

• How to raise the quality and bankability of PPP projects and increase pipeline volume
• Identifying private sector opportunities
• What are the most successful models in PPP projects and procurement?
• Scaling up, and crossing borders - legislative considerations
• PPPs how they will continue and in what shape?
• Case studies from Brazil, India, Turkey

Moderator:

Speakers:

• Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda the road to interconnectivity and the port to the East – priority projects
• Scrutinizing opportunities for infrastructure players
• What opportunities exist for waste to energy, IPP and renewable development?
• What can we expect from project pipelines?
• How much investment is needed in transmission and distribution infrastructure to sufficiently upgrade the network?

Moderator:

Speakers:

• Jim Mugunga, Director, Public Private Partnerships Unit, Ministry of Finance, Planning & Economic Development, Uganda
• Judith Nyakawa, Director PPP Unit, National Treasury, Kenya
• Flora Tenga, PPP Director, Ministry of Finance, Tanzania
• Lindokuhle Hlatswahya, Director Business Development, GTAC, PPP Unit, National Treasury, South Africa

• Assessing the need for renewable mega projects- Morocco First Mover
  renewable mega project
• How will PPP continue, for which projects and in which shape?
• What financing mechanisms are proving the most effective in DRC?
• What can we expect in future announcements around the Inga 3
  Hydropower project?
• What can developers and investors expect from Zambia project pipelines?
• Identifying private sector opportunities in the Batoka Gorge Project Zambia and Zimbabwe power plant

Moderator:
Speakers:

• Where do we stand in terms of the transboundary mega projects?
• Regional and transboundary regulatory priorities
• Where can we expect the next wave of transactions?
• When can we expect the first project announcements on the Trans-Africa Highway Project?
• Current revenue and budgetary challenges
• Where can partners add value?

• Silvester Kasuku, Director General/ CEO, LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority
• Symerre Grey-Johnson, Head of the Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade Programme, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)

Projects are presented through the course of the 3-day event, mainly by SOE’s, Ministries and PPP Units, within the conference program, as well as in the showcase area. Investors will have the opportunity to schedule 1on1 sessions through the matchmaking platform

• Mobilizing Institutional Investment Funds
• PPP Cycle benchmarking beyond initial implementation – post implementation and efficiency gains
• What can make infrastructure debt more attractive
• Why PPP and not traditional infrastructure procurement/government lending?
• Regional and sector regulation highlights and priorities

• Strover Maganedisa, Chief Director: Transaction Advisory Services and PPP, GTAC, South Africa

• Mobilizing Institutional Investment Funds
• PPP Cycle benchmarking beyond initial implementation – post implementation and efficiency gains
• What can make infrastructure debt more attractive
• Why PPP and not traditional infrastructure procurement/government lending?
• Regional and sector regulation highlights and priorities

• Strover Maganedisa, Chief Director: Transaction Advisory Services and PPP, GTAC, South Africa

Accelerating access to clean water is a priority for a number of African countries, and has an effect on both social and economic development. This session will highlight the current water services PPPs

• Creating water and sanitation programmes
• Meeting the SDGs
• Management, operations and maintenance contracts
• Successful water PPPs
• Improving efficiency, quality, accessibility in watwer service delivery and sanitation

• Manel Salvado Tenesa, Business Development Director, Africa, Almar Water Solutions
• Walid Madwar, General Manager, Metito, UAE
• Guy Baron, Chief Investment Officer, Rwanda Development Board, Rwanda*

Planning and delivering the existing pipeline of projects Kenya – the sustainable Energy Fund for Africa has approved a grant to support the planning stages of the construction of a 10 MW grid-connected municipal waste to energy plant in Nairobi, Kenya Further waste to energy project pipeline opportunities Waste to energy: Africa opportunities Ghana Ethiopia – Case study Attracting Investment; shared lessons for building market confidence

• Moderator :
• Speakers: Jean_Noel Ekoman, Technical Expert, CARPA, Cameroon

• What features of PPPs make them interesting for SPV sponsors in terms of equity return?
• How do institutional investors perceive the risk/return profile of infrastructure and how significant infra assets are in terms of portfolio optimization?
• What are the performance attributes of listed infrastructure assets and can it claim to provide better performance than the market indices?
• What are the best strategies pursued by infrastructure funds for adding value via active management?

• Shafeeq Abrahams, CEO, Eskom Provident pension Fund, South Africa*

• What can developers expect from Tanzania – the Central Corridor Inland Container Depots, the Inland Water Way Network and the Maritime Port of Dar es Salaam
• What are the opportunities in Kenya – Updates on the Mombasa port Development Project, Kisumu  Sea Port, Shimoni Port, the  onversation of Container Terminals, Lamu Port, Multi Storey terminal,
  Integrated Marine Transport System,
• What are the best strategies pursued by infrastructure funds for adding value via active management?
• What are the opportunities in West Africa inland Waterways. How can project owners prepare for the fully automated port of the future?

Moderator :

Speakers:

• Siby Diabira, Regional Director Southern Africa, Proparco, South Afr