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AFRICA CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT INFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT 27-28 February 2018 Pullman Hotel, Marrakech, Morocco

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CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Jamal Saghir, Former World Bank Director and Senior Regional Advisor for Africa, and GRV Global Advisory Board Member

WELCOME In my capacity as Conference Chair, and Former Director & Senior Africa Regional Advisor at the World Bank, and GRV Global Advisory Board Member, I am delighted to welcome you all to Marrakech and the third annual Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS III). My gratitude first goes to H.E. Sacko Josefa Leonel CORREA, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture at the Africa Union Commission (AUC), and her team, for once again partnering with GRV Global on this important Summit, and to Hon. Aziz RABBAH, Minister of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, for kindly hosting us here in the Kingdom of Morocco. I also offer my sincere thanks to our Main Sponsors, the World Bank, Nordic Development Fund (NDF) and African Development Bank (AfDB), for all their hard work and commitment once again, in ensuring ACRIS III is a major success for all those involved. My thanks also to Event Sponsor, IRENA for their unwavering support and participation and to all those reading this publication; attending honourable ministers, distinguished guests, sponsors, delegates and media for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend this prestigious event. It is stated that close to $100 billion will be required to meet Africa’s infrastructure needs over the next decade. Much of the needed investment is in long-lived infrastructure, such as power stations, roads, reservoirs and irrigation canals, which are vulnerable to changes in climate patterns. As demonstrated in a recent report by the World Bank and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), failure to integrate climate change into the planning and design of this infrastructure could lead to major negative development impacts, such as crop losses, traffic disruptions, reduced power production and higher energy costs.

COMMITTED TO MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is one of the leading Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in Africa. At the core of our mandate, the DBSA seeks to play a pivotal role in delivering developmental infrastructure in South Africa and the rest of Africa. The strategy of the DBSA is to provide sustainable infrastructure project preparation, finance and implementation support in selected African markets to improve the quality of life of people, in support of economic growth and regional integration. Our work targets investments mainly in the energy, transport, water and communications sectors. We also provide support to sectors such as health, education and housing.

Building on the success of 2016 and 2017, the Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit III aims at addressing this challenge and assisting the African Union Member States in preparing for and implementing measures related to resilient infrastructure in their respective countries, as well as developing and strengthening local, regional and international cooperation on these matters. ACRIS III comprises of a two-day conference which includes, extensive presentations and panel discussions on all aspects of Climate Resilience, one-to-one pre-scheduled matchmaking meeting sessions, small exhibition and demonstrations, a local site visit, various networking breaks and a cultural dining experience; all where delegates can establish valuable business relationships in a relaxed environment. I trust all attendees will leave with enduring knowledge of Africa’s Climate Resilient issues and a wealth of new contacts, from one of the most important regions on the planet. I very much look forward to meeting you personally throughout your stay here in Marrakech.

Prof. Jamal Saghir

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Welcome to ACRIS III The World Bank Group is pleased to welcome African ministers, government officials, experts and private sector representatives to the Third Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS III). This year’s Summit calls on the private sector to bring innovation, technology and financing and deliver solutions fitting Africa’s needs. Solutions must provide access to electricity, harness renewable energy from low-carbon sources and confront drought in Africa’s drylands, which make up 43 percent of the surface and are home to over 425 million people. Without the engagement of the private sector in building Africa’s climate resilience, the continent may not fully maximize its potential. We only have a narrow window of opportunity to transform ecosystems and livelihoods in the face of population increase and worsening climate impacts. By 2030, the number of people affected by drought in East and West Africa is likely to be 70 percent higher than in 2010. Two out of three people in Africa, or about 600 million people, do not have access to electricity or have access but are limited by unreliable supply and power shortages. Without electricity, health clinics cannot provide basic services, children cannot get a proper education, businesses cannot grow and thrive in today’s global economy, and Africa will not achieve its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. There are huge opportunities for the private sector which has been missing from Africa’s energy, infrastructure, landscape restoration and climate-smart agribusiness. Beyond the know-how of the private sector, we must leverage its financing to deliver on climate resilience at scale.

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CONTENTS Conference Agenda ..................................................................... 6

WE INVITE YOU TO EXPLORE HOW SOLAR ENERGY CAN BECOME A PART OF YOUR ENERGY STRATEGY TODAY

Accelerating Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Development through the World Bank’s Africa Climate Business Plan.................................................................. 16 Speaker Profiles ........................................................................... 18 Supporting Partners ................................................................... 34 IRENA: Opportunities and Challenges in implementing African NDCs ..................................................... 36 Roundtable List ............................................................................ 38 Roundtable Profiles ..................................................................... 39 Participants List .......................................................................... 46 Participants Profiles .................................................................... 47

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CONFERENCE AGENDA Agenda Context This third Africa Climate Resilient Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS III) follows the successful outcomes achieved in the previous two Summits (2016 and 2017). ACRIS II concluded that there are huge opportunities to integrate climate change resilience into infrastructure development plans in the face of the growth trajectories of African countries. Although climate-proofing of infrastructure could add upfront financial costs to investments, these represent cost-effective opportunities and solutions which also emphasise environmental and social benefits. The Summit will convene a set of high-level expert panels to showcase priority areas of private sector investment for climate resilient infrastructure in Africa - a fundamental building block for Africa to meet its sustainable development goals (SDGs). Harnessing the private sector and mobilizing public-private partnerships is key to unlocking delivery on climate resilient roads, solar and hydro energy, water systems, sustainable land management and coastal management. The panel discussions – drawing on practical experiences, pioneering and innovative approaches - will stimulate a deepening of the dialogue and partnerships to forge action at scale. Most importantly, the Summit will provide real-time opportunity for direct face-time and networking between public and private sector enterprises to discuss potential areas of engagement. Networking opportunities will continue through well-resourced exhibition stands highlighting tried and tested innovation. There will also be an Evening Reception and Cultural Dinner.

Key Partner: Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission (AUC).

Transport Infrastructure: MAN Enterprise, China Road & Bridge Corporation – CRBC, ASP-GC Europe AB, GECI Group, Air Tractor Europe, S.L., GECI ESPANOLA, S.A. (Airport Engineering) and uYilo eMobility Programme. Waste Management: Averda.  ulti-disciplinary Climate Consultancies: Partners in Performance International Pty Ltd, Professional M Engineering Consultants P.A., AETS Consulting, CRIDF (Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility), Emellord Associates Ltd, Governance Systems International (GSI), Greenpeace Africa, SouthSouthNorth Projects Africa, Tata Projects LTD and Governance Systems International – GSI.  limate Finance: DB Private Equity GmbH, Sanlam Investments, and Development Bank of Southern C Africa.

Monday 26 February

Pullman Marrakech Palmeraie Resort 16:00 – 19:00

PRE-EVENT REGISTRATION Event participants may complete registration by collecting their delegate pack & event access pass (business card required), from outside the Koutoubia Ballroom. Sponsors are also asked to setup their exhibition booth.

19:00 - 21:00

EVENING NETWORKING RECEPTION An ‘ice-breaker’ opportunity for event participants to meet and discuss the two days ahead in a relaxed and informal setting, whilst enjoying a range of canapés and refreshments.

Host: Moroccan Ministry of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment.

 he World Bank Group through the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) and The Main Sponsors: T the African Development Bank (AfDB).



Event Sponsors: IRENA (The International Renewable Energy Agency) and the European Investment Bank (EIB).

The ACRIS III Summit will be chaired by Professor Jamal Saghir.

Leading private sector sponsors include:



Gold Sponsors:

Partners in Performance, Development Bank of Southern Africa and SkyPower Global.



Silver Sponsors:

 lueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré), CRBC (China Road & Bridge B Corporation) and Masen.



Bronze Sponsors:

Averda, Genesis Energy Holdings, GreenArava LTD, MAN Enterprise.



Industrial IOP Partner ANDRITZ.

Participation at the conference will include: African country delegates; UNECA - United Nations Economic Community for Africa; leading development institutions - the African Development Bank; the World Bank Group, the International Financial Corporation; European Investment Bank, and the Nordic Fund. There will also be strong participation from leading industry specialist and firms on key infrastructure areas of investment, including:  gribusiness: GreenArava LTD, Jenaan Investment LLC, Lindsay Corporation, Olam International, A AWL Group – SupPlant, Musika, AQUA HD and Verve Dynamics; Shakti Pumps (India) LTD., Suez Group and NISRAL - Agri-Finance.  enewable Energy: SkyPower Global, BlueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré), MASEN GROUP, Genesis Energy R Holdings, Distributed Power Africa (Pty) Ltd., Energy Exemplar, SGB-SMIT, SMA Sunbelt Energy GmbH, Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Solho, Philips Lighting and Zhejiang Chint Electrics., Ltd; Distributed Power Africa (Pty) Ltd. Savfuel Petroleum Limited and Platinum Power on renewable energy finance.

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Tuesday 27 February

Koutoubia Ballroom, Pullman Marrakech Palmeraie Resort 08:00 – 08:30 NETWORKING REGISTRATION Event participants may complete registration by collecting their delegate pack & event access pass (business card required), from outside the Koutoubia Ballroom. Sponsors are also asked to setup their exhibition booth, if not completed Monday afternoon. 08:30 – 09:30 SESSION 1: OPENING CEREMONY, KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND SETTING THE CONTEXT Conference Chair  Prof. Jamal SAGHIR, Advisory Board Member, GRV Global  WELCOME REMARKS Hon. Aziz RABBAH, Minister Ministry of Energy, Mines & Sustainable Development; Kingdom of Morocco  INTRODUCTORY REMARKS H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia SACKO, Commissioner Rural Economy & Agriculture of African Union Commission (AUC)  KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SETTING THE CONTEXT Mr. Rachid BENMESSAOUD, Country Director for Nigeria and Coordinating Director for West Africa Regional Integration Program The World Bank Group w w w. gr vgl o b a l . co m

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CONFERENCE AGENDA  KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SETTING THE CONTEXT Ms. Leila FARAH MOKADDEM, Country Manager - Morocco African Development Bank (AfDB) 09:30 – 10:30 SESSION 2: ENGAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR – THE ENABLING & INVESTMENT LANDSCAPE  Building climate resilience into infrastructure investment decisions provides scope to both enhance resilience and avoid the risk of costly retrofitting in future. But several barriers to designing and financing climate resilient infrastructure need to be overcome. Public concessional climate finance when blended with other sources of public finance, can de-risk African infrastructure projects and crowd-in private finance. • Increasing the climate resilience of micro, small and medium-sized (MSME) companies, and the role of the private sector  climate finance invested as part of a broader funding package • Concessional could lower risk and overall financing costs • Investment  opportunities in coastal infrastructure  Panel Chair: Prof. Jamal SAGHIR, Advisory Board Member GRV Global Mr. Pasi Sakari HELLMAN, Managing Director, Nordic Development Fund (NDF) Dr. Thomas Edward DOWNING, CEO Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) Mrs. Jane AFRANE, Regional Head, Africa Regional Network World Green Building Council Mr. Vladimir STENEK, Senior Climate Change Specialist International Finance Corporation (IFC) AUDIENCE DISCUSSION; QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION 10:30 – 11:00

NETWORKING TEA & COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 3: ACCELERATING RENEWABLE ENERGY DEPLOYMENT TO BUILD CLIMATE RESILIENCE  Renewable energy features prominently in most of the NDCs, confirming that the transition to a renewable energy future has come to be recognised globally as central to addressing climate change. Many countries, including Africans, aim in their NDCs at mitigating climate change while advancing social and economic development, and at the same time building resilience to the inevitable impacts they are facing. Renewables can contribute to adapting to climate impacts, for example, by promoting the diversification of the power supply and by building resilience through improved energy access. Such contribution will be a driver for enhanced renewable energy targets in the future NDCs. In addition, investments in renewable energy deployment will fuel socio-economic benefits at national and local levels. Advancing renewable energy is most effective, if local community benefits are well integrated from the planning stage. Discussion will focus on: • E  xpected role that renewable energy plays in promoting adaptation and resilience building towards climate impacts • P  otential areas for enhanced renewable energy contribution to the adaptation and resilience building efforts towards climate impacts • S  trategies to enhance the socio-economic benefits of renewable energy, including for local communities 11:00 – 12:30

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• E  xpected role that public finance plays in leveraging private investments in renewable energy deployment in the context of promoting adaptation and resilience building towards climate impacts  trategies to translate renewable energy contribution to climate adaptation • S and resilience building into enhanced renewable energy targets in NDCs

Panel Chair: Dr. Henning WUESTER, Director - the KPFC, IRENA Hon. Aziz RABBAH, Minister Ministry of Energy, Mines & Sustainable Development; Kingdom of Morocco Dr. Daniel SCHROTH, Adviser to the Vice President, Power, Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth, African Development Bank (AfDB) Mr. Olivier COLAS, Head of Business Development BlueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré) Mr. Kerry ADLER, President & CEO, SkyPower Global Ms. Hanae RHARNIT, International Development & Cooperation Project Manager Masen Dr. Elham M. A. IBRAHIM, Vice Chair for Africa, World Energy Council

AUDIENCE DISCUSSION; QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

12:30 – 13:30 SESSION 4: HYDROLOGY DOMINATED ENERGY SYSTEMS  Hydropower generators rely on river runoffs which are subject to seasonal and long-term variations leading to volatility in revenues. The vulnerability to hydrologic uncertainty, and the possibility of increased hydrologic variability due to climate change, expose the hydropower producers to financial risks that need to be properly assessed and managed. This will also protect the end-consumer from increased tariffs.

• G  ood practices for managing residual financial risk resulting from hydrological variability include the use of energy stabilization funds, contingent loans, weather derivatives and energy-portfolio diversification  • E  xperiences on systematic integration of required operations to reduce financial vulnerability in hydrology-dominated energy systems during preparation of new hydropower and energy sector investment in Africa  • R  educing the vulnerability to the hydrologic variability through financial mitigation measures  • P  ushing the COP21 and COP22 climate agenda and enhancing climate resilience in the renewable energies and particularly in the hydropower sector in the Africa Region Panel Chair: Mr. Luciano CANALE, Senior Hydropower Specialist The World Bank Group Dr. Jacques MOULOT, Chief Energy Specialist, African Development Bank (AfDB) Mr. Csaba MATRON, Director Global Marketing & Sales Small Hydro Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG Mr. Hector IBARRA, CEO Global Parametrics Dr. Gregory CHARACKLIS, Professor, University of North Carolina Mr. Daniel TASENDE, Supply Planning Manager UTE (Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas)





Mr. Yuan Yong LONG, Vice President, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Ltd



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CONFERENCE AGENDA Wednesday 28 February

13:30 – 15:00

NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK

13:30 – 15:00

VIP LUNCH HOSTED BY IRENA (BY INVITATION ONLY)

15:00 – 19:00

Session 5: Cementing the Dialogue – Public-Private Sector Face-to-Face

Koutoubia Ballroom, Pullman Marrakech Palmeraie Resort 08:30 - 08:50

15:00 – 16:00 Showcasing Technology, Innovation and Solutions  An opportunity for private sector entities to showcase successful and practical applications of technology and innovations - highlighting financially viable climate resilient solutions in specific geographies.

NETWORKING REGISTRATION Event participants may complete registration by collecting their delegate pack & event access pass (business card required), from outside the Koutoubia Ballroom, if not completed previously.

08:50 - 09:00

DAY TWO WELCOMING REMARKS



09:00 - 10:30

Panel Chair: Mr. Andrew DOWELL, CEO, GRV Global

15:00 - 15:10 Sahara Wind Project Overview Mr. Khalid BENHAMOU, CEO, Sahara Wind 15:10 - 15:20 Mr. Olivier COLAS, Head of Business Development, BlueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré) 15:20 - 15:30 Industrial IoT/IoP Showcases in Water Management Dr. Uwe SEEBACHER (MBA), Global Director Marketing and Communication, Pumps, ANDRITZ 15:30 - 15:40

Mrs. Philippa CHARLTON, Chief Marketing Officer, Averda

15:40 - 15:50

Dr. Eleanor BLYTH, Head of Hydro-Climate Risks, CEH (Centre of Ecology & Hydrology)

15:50 - 16:00

Mr. Yariv KEDAR, Africa Director, GreenArava LTD

16:00 – 16:30

NETWORKING TEA & COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 19:00 ACRIS Matchmaking: 1-2-1 Pre-Scheduled Business Meetings This session offers opportunities for interaction between public and private sector enterprises. To ensure maximum benefit is gained from ACRIS III, profiles of all attending official organisations, outlining their role and responsibilities, are shared prior to the Summit. Attendees may login to GRV Global’s secure system, to make an informed choice of whom they wish to meet and at which meeting tables. Participants receive an individually tailored schedule, based on their choices. Each meeting lasts for 15 minutes. Meeting areas are discreetly located, free from distraction and to allow for focused discussions. There is no pre-planned content of the conversations. 20:00 - 22:00 Cultural Dinner An informal Cultural Dinner, welcoming the Official Delegation and all Summit attendees; enjoying local food, refreshments and entertainment. An ideal opportunity for further networking, to discuss the day’s talking points, and to further relations established during the afternoon’s 1-2-1 matchmaking meeting session.

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Prof. Jamal SAGHIR, Advisory Board Member, GRV Global Conference Chair   ESSION 6: LANDSCAPE RESTORATION & SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE S MANAGEMENT IN DRYLANDS: LEVERAGING PRIVATE SECTOR FOR SCALE-UP & INNOVATION

With 70% of the sub-Saharan Africa living in rural areas and dependent on the land for a living, Africa needs a range of instruments that will help slow land degradation, deforestation, and harness opportunities for forest-related carbon emissions, to promote sustainable natural resource management of drylands and forest systems for enhanced resilience to climate change. Discussion will focus on: • T  he multiple challenges faced by drylands: climate variability, poor infrastructure, land degradation, conflict and political marginalization and environmental problems • A  bsence of private sector investment. An opportunity to learn from successful agro-forestry systems in the region’s drylands community-based rangeland rehabilitation, land management and livestock improvement schemes. How such initiatives can be scaled up? • H  ow to harness new technologies, innovations and opportunities? and what it will take to attract and sustain private sector engagement • T  he role that the African Development Bank (AfDB) play in accelerating the implementation of its Drought Resilience Sustainable Livelihood Support

Panel Chair: Ms. Magda LOVEI, Practice Manager, Environment Practice, Africa Region, The World Bank Group

H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia SACKO, Commissioner of Rural Economy & Agriculture, African Union Commission (AUC) Dr. Laouali GARBA, Chief Climate Change Officer, Coordinator CSA African Development Bank (AfDB) Hon. Patricia APPIAGYEI, Deputy Minister Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation; Republic of Ghana Hon. January Yusuf MAKAMBA, Minister State Environment & Union Matters of United Republic of Tanzania Mr. Dawud Mume ALI, Director - Plan & Budget Development, Monitoring & Evaluation Directorate Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

AUDIENCE DISCUSSION; QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

10:30 – 11:00

NETWORKING TEA & COFFEE BREAK

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S  ESSION 7: INCREASING COASTAL RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE – FOCUS ON WEST AFRICA In West Africa, climate change adaptation efforts and investments have been largely on land use, such as dry forests, agriculture and livestock. Landscapes along its coastal areas, including mangroves and other forest types, which are highly vulnerable to climate change and under pressure from human activities, have not benefited from the same level of attention and investment. Understanding the scope and experiences of coastal resilience will be the focus of this discussion. • M  oody’s factoring of climate impacts into credit risk scoring, could provide a platform to discuss climate resilient infrastructure assets initiatives • T  he needs to create an enabling environment for private sector adaptation within resilient infrastructure, showcasing climate resilient management tools for ports Panel Chair: Ms. Dahlia LOTAYEF, Lead Environmental Specialist The World Bank Group



H.E. Dr. Mohamed Abdel ATY, Minister Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation (MWRI); Egypt  Mr. Hachimou ISSAKA, Technical Advisor to the Commissioner Commission de l’UEMOA

14:30 - 15:30 SESSION 9: CLIMATE RESILIENT TRANSPORT Climate change has created a layer of vulnerability to transport networks and facilities that demands new ways of planning, building and maintaining under highly uncertain conditions. The construction standards are being challenged and call for innovative technologies. Maintenance and rehabilitation have become more important than ever, imposing mark-up costs and demanding institutional commitment to shorten maintenance cycles and increase frequency for resurfacing of roads, cleaning of culverts, and dredging rivers. Multimodality and network redundancy as copying mechanisms increasingly become part of adaptive planning thinking. Unforeseen yet more frequent climate shocks call for increased preparedness for disaster management and deeper coordination with health and urban planners, logistics service providers and authorities. • M  odifying the design of paved roads and the asphalt used in response to an anticipated higher temperature to avoid compromising pavement integrity and thermal expansion of bridge joints, adversely affecting bridge operation and increasing maintenance costs • Systems planning, design standards, technology • H  ow could transport infrastructure be improved to the benefit of waste management ecosystems Panel Chair: Mr. Andrew LOSOS, Senior Sustainable Transport Specialist The World Bank Group

Dr. Laouali GARBA, Chief Climate Change Officer, Coordinator CSA African Development Bank (AfDB)



Dr. Werner EKAU, Head of Department Ecology Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research ZMT

Hon. Abdelkader IMARA, Minister Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics & Water; Kingdom of Morocco



Hon. Jean Bosco NTUNZWENIMANA, Minister Ministry of Transport, Public Works & Equipment; Republic of Burundi

AUDIENCE DISCUSSION; QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

SESSION 8: CLIMATE INFORMATION NEEDS FOR PLANNING INVESTMENT IN RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE The packaging and dissemination of climate information to specific users – are vital in supporting Africa’s response to climate change. With robust climate information, Africa can safeguard the economic gains and advances in social development seen across the continent. The links between climate information and Africa’s development must be better understood and barriers to generating high quality climate information addressed. Discussion will include a focus on: • U  rgent need for climate information and climate services, accompanying infrastructure, and the means to strengthen ICT infrastructure • Integration of hydro-meteorology and information needs, particularly climate, weather and water services for the infrastructure sectors • Disaster risk and civil protection for infrastructure 12:00 - 13:00

Panel Chair: Dr. Kanta Kumari RIGAUD, Lead Environment Specialist, Climate Change Coordinator, Africa Region, The World Bank Group



Dr. Justus Joseph KABYEMERA, Coordinator - ClimDev Africa Special Fund African Development Bank (AfDB) Dr. Christopher JACK, Researcher, CSAG - University of Cape Town Mr. Andre KAMGA FOAMOUHOUE, Chief of Climate and Environment Department African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) Mr. Gerard Mark DOHERTY, Head of F-Lab Division, European Space Agency

AUDIENCE DISCUSSION; QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

13:00 – 14:30

NETWORKING LUNCH BREAK

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Mr. Kouassi Joseph N’GUESSAN, Chief Transport Engineer African Development Bank (AfDB) Ms. Malaya ZUMEL, Regional Coordinator for Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, European Investment Bank (EIB)

Mrs. Philippa CHARLTON, Chief Marketing Officer, Averda



AUDIENCE DISCUSSION; QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

15:30 – 16:00

NETWORKING TEA & COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 17:30

 ESSION 10: WAY FORWARD: BUILDING CAPACITY, LEVERAGING FINANCING S AND REACHING SCALE ON RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE For African countries to deliver on climate resilient development, there is an urgent need to enhance and deepen critical skills, and to leverage finance from the public, private and non-traditional sources. It has been estimated that over $95 billion per year over the next decade will be needed to meet Africa’s infrastructure gap alone. Raising financing will require multiplicity of financing partners to come together through a range of modalities and business models to enable delivery of investments at scale. Traditional—public and private— sources of financing and their efficient utilization remain essential, while new global climate financing instruments such as the Green Climate Fund, various carbon financing mechanisms, and other innovative financing mechanisms are being introduced. The panellists will reflect on the issues of capacity, financing, and achieving scale – drawing on their experiences and the challenges and opportunity in the African context: • How countries are preparing themselves to deliver on climate resilience as part of their national strategies and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). w w w. gr vgl o b a l . co m

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• H  ow development finance institutions can draw on their comparative advantages to optimize use of public capital to leverage private investment for impact at scale; and also strategies to harness non-traditional financing (philanthropic, green bonds, etc.).  trategies and approaches to build capacity for climate resilience within and across •S sectors; and achieving economies of scale working through Centers of Excellence or specialized TA (e.g. AFRI-RES) facilities.



Panel Chair: Ms. Magda LOVEI, Practice Manager, Environment Practice, Africa Region, The World Bank Group Mr. Aage JORGENSEN, Program Manager, Nordic Development Fund (NDF) Mr. Al-Hamndou DORSOUMA, Division Manager African Development Bank (AfDB) Mr. Peter SIDERMAN, PIP Advisor, Partners in Performance Mr. Linus MOFOR, Senior Environmental Affairs Officer (Energy, Infrastructure and Climate Change), UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Mr. Kumesh NAIDOO, Program Development Specialist Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)



AUDIENCE DISCUSSION; QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

17:30 - 18:00

SESSION 11: CLOSING CEREMONY

Conference Chair  Prof. Jamal SAGHIR, Advisory Board Member, GRV Global H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia SACKO, Commissioner of Rural Economy & Agriculture, African Union Commission (AUC) Ms. Marie Francoise MARIE NELLY, Country Director, The World Bank Group Mr. Andrew DOWELL, CEO, GRV Global

Thursday 1 March

Mohammed VI Museum of Water Civilization 09:00 - 12:00 FIELD VISIT Morocco’s Mohammed VI Museum of Water Civilization is Marrakech’s newest exhibition centre, which highlights the essence of water in both the country’s history and heritage. The Museum, named after the Moroccan King, who, throughout his reign, made many efforts to build water sources and canals, was inaugurated by Prince Moulay Hassan during the first quarter of 2017 and was reported to value a total of 18 million US Dollars. Built with no walls, showcasing a hybrid museological model which intends to uphold and introduce Morocco’s traditional hydraulics. A basic life source, the Museum aspires to communicate the value of water, promoting awareness on the many pressing water concerns. The facility displays the heritage of Moroccan School of Moroccan Water, ingrained in old practices that need to be preserved, and used as a sample for efficient use of water resources - an archaeological museum that preserves heritage, a science gallery to push for innovation, a new interpretation centre to engage participation, and an international research centre that encourages discovery and communication. The facility seeks to explore water’s spiritual elements and acknowledge the hydraulic policy of HM King Mohammed VI, and to bring to mind the traditional commercial and technological standpoints of water usage. The museum is divided into 13 themes with emphasis on water space, its scientific facet, properties and nature benefits in a modern and futuristic setting inspired by water molecules.

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Accelerating Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Development through the World Bank’s Africa Climate Business Plan

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The Africa Climate Business Plan spells out a clear path to invest in the continent’s urgent climate needs and to fast-track the required climate finance to ensure millions of people are protected from sliding into extreme poverty,” explains Makhtar Diop, World Bank Group Vice President for Africa. “While adapting to climate change and mobilizing the necessary resources remain an enormous challenge, the plan represents a critical opportunity to support a priority set of climate-resilient initiatives in Africa.”

Climate change presents enormous challenges and opportunities for development, especially in SubSaharan Africa, making it essential that climate and development be tackled in an integrated way. There is an urgent need to build resilience to climate risks and disasters by channelling funding to address climate change effectively. The World Bank Africa Climate Business Plan (ACBP) was launched in 2015 at COP 21 in Paris as a guiding document for climate action in Africa. The plan warns that unless decisive action is taken, climate variability and change could seriously jeopardize the region’s hard-won development gains and its aspirations for further growth and poverty reduction. And it comes in the wake of Bank analysis which indicates climate change could push up to 43 million more Africans into poverty by 2030. The ACBP aims to build a strong pipeline of innovative and transformational projects to tackle climate change across sectors and establish a platform to mobilize investments, thereby contributing to filling the climate financing gap in the region. The ACBP focuses on more than a dozen priority areas, clustered in three groups. • T  he first cluster - strengthening resilience - includes selected initiatives aimed at boosting the resilience of the region’s assets, including its natural capital (agricultural land, landscapes, forests, inland bodies

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of water, and oceans); physical capital (cities, physical assets in coastal areas, and roads); and human and social capital. • The second cluster - powering resilience- relates to opportunities for scaling up low-carbon energy sources in Sub-Saharan Africa, thereby contributing to increasing access to energy (a key ingredient for resilience) and mitigating climate change. • The third cluster - enabling resilience - provides data, information, and decision-making tools for promoting climate-resilient development across sectors, by strengthening the region’s hydrometeorological systems at the regional and country levels and building the capacity to plan and design climate-resilient investments. Over the two years since its launch there has been significant progress on various fronts of the ACBP. Some highlights include: • Scale of investment: the number of projects contributing to ACBP implementation has grown to 204 with cumulative commitments US$ 22 billion. • Contribution to NDCs: 80% (163 out of 204) of ACBP projects directly contribute towards the implementation of NDC targets and actions, which amount to US$18.3 billion or 83% of the total financial commitment. These support a range of investments – including policy design, capacity building, and technical assistance.

• C  ontribution to resilience: The current ACBP portfolio makes significant contribution to strengthening resilience. About two-thirds of the results indicators in the ACBP projects are intended to augment resilience to climate and disaster risks. 52% of the resilience-relevant indicators aim to build adaptive capacity, about a third (34%) to build absorptive capacity, and 14% to build transformative capacity. As the ACBP portfolio further develops, the focus will be shifted toward addressing longer term resilience goals and strengthening transformative capacity. Beyond investment projects, the region is pursuing greater alignment of climate change within the Bank’s processes at the country level. The Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCDs) considers available climate information and data to examine the potential impact of climate change on future poverty reduction, and adaptation and resilience priorities and needs. The Country Partnership Frameworks seek addresses climate change issues and risks in future Bank pipeline; and this is aligned, as appropriate, with countries NDC priorities. To meet the Africa Region’s target of 22% climate related share (climate co-benefits) of its total

“Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate shocks and stresses, and the Africa Climate Business Plan provides a systematic and strategic way to embed climate action into investment projects for sustained and resilient outcomes, and an opportunity to learn, replicate and scale-up.”

commitment by 2020, the ACBP aims to raise US$19.3 billion by 2020 to support investments that will strengthen, power, and enable resilience. Half of this is expected to come from IDA resources, with the rest coming from a variety of development and climate finance sources, including the private sector.

Contributions to Resilience Using a framework developed through the World Bank Resilience Monitoring & Evaluation project, capacities of projects were assessed against the following types of resilience-building pathways: • Absorptive capacity: The ability of people, assets, and systems to prepare for, mitigate, or prevent negative impacts of hazards so as to preserve and restore essential basic structures and functions, e.g., strengthening the walls of grain storage sheds, to enable them to withstand inclement weather, such as high winds and rain. Example: Dakar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Pilot Project: improve urban resilience & mobility by alleviating flood impacts • A  daptive capacity: The ability of people, assets, and systems to adjust, modify or change characteristics and actions to moderate potential future impacts from hazards so as to continue to function without major qualitative changes e.g., establishing an irrigation system for farmers previously dependent on invariable rainfall to water their crops. Example: Niger Climate Smart Agriculture project: New agricultural practices adopted • T  ransformative capacity: The ability to create a fundamentally new system so as to avoid negative impacts from hazards e.g., shifting from agriculture to another means of income such as livestock herding, given the chronic climate and disaster risk and stress the current system is facing. Example: Tanzania Resilient Natural Resource Management for Tourism and Growth

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SPEAKER PROFILES CONFERENCE CHAIR PROF. JAMAL SAGHIR, Advisory Board Member GRV Global Jamal Saghir is Professor of Practice at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C. He is also Special Advisor to the Executive Committee of Bollore Transport and Logistics, member of the Advisory Board of MAN S.A.L., Melec Power Gen Inc., and GRV Global Ltd. From 2010 to 2016, Mr. Saghir was Director for Sustainable Development and Senior Regional Advisor at the World Bank, where he held directorship in Energy and Power, Water, Transport, Environment, Agriculture and Rural development, Infrastructure and Sustainable Development. He managed one of the largest World Bank Group departments with over 400 staff, an equal number of consultants, and was responsible for a portfolio of close to 300 projects worth around US$25 billion. From, 2000 to 2010, Mr. Saghir was Director and Chair of the World Bank Group’s Boards for Energy, Water and Transport, leading Bank activities, guiding its lending strategy and implementation in member countries. From 1990 to 2000, Mr. Saghir served in senior management and leadership roles in a variety of energy, private sector development, restructuring operations in Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Saghir served as Resident Advisor to the Prime Ministry in Tunisia and Country Director for Scientex Corporation, Center for Privatization (1988-1990), and from 1985-1988, he held the positions of Economic Adviser and Chief of Staff to the Associate Minister of Finance and Privatization in Quebec (Canada). From 1982 to 1985, he served as Economist at the National Assembly of Quebec.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS HON. AZIZ RABBAH, Minister Ministry of Energy, Mines & Sustainable Development; Kingdom of Morocco Mr. Aziz Rabbah, the former Minister of Equipment, Transport and Logistics since January 2012, was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI as Minister of Energy, Mines and Sustainable Development on April 5 2017. M. Aziz Rabbah is an engineer, specialized in new information technologies. He holds a Bachelor in Mathematics from the Mohammed V high school in Kenitra (1981), an engineering degree from INSEA (1985) and a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Laval University in Quebec (1992). M. Rabbah held several leadership positions in the Ministries of Economic and General Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Trade and Industry. He also served as an adviser in the offices of several Moroccan Ministers. Mr. Rabbah was elected Mayor of Kenitra city in 2009 and was re-elected in 2015. He was elected member of the Moroccan parliament in 2007, 2011 and 2016. M. Aziz Rabbah participated in several meetings concerning information technologies and communication, administrative reform, e-government, the upgrade of economy and the information society. He is Research and Expertise Center (CEREX) Executive Committee and founding member and a founding member of the Sigma21

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association. He was also a member of the National Committee for the Upgrading the Economy (2002-2004), the Strategic Committee for Information Technologies (CSTI) (2004-2005), the Interministerial Committee for Electronic Commerce. On the political level, Mr. Aziz Rabbah is one of the leaders of the Moroccan Justice and Development Party, of which he is a member of the General Secretariat for four terms. He was elected national secretary of the youth section of the party for two terms and head of the party’s Executives section. Mr. Rabbah was born in 1962 in Sidi Kacem. He is married and has three children. He speaks Arabic, French and English. H.E. JOSEFA LEONEL CORREIA SACKO, Commissioner of Rural Economy & Agriculture African Union Commission (AUC) H.E. Madam Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, an Angolan national, is a leading African Agronomist. She was elected as the new Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union Commission. Prior to that, She was a Special Adviser to two Ministers in Angola, her home country: the Angolan Minister of Environment where she also served as Ambassador responsible for Climate Change. In the Department of the minister of Agriculture Mme Sacko oversaw Food Security, Eradication of Hunger and Poverty Reduction. The former Secretary General of the Inter African Coffee Organization (IACO) for 13 years in Cote D’Ivoire where she represented Coffee economy for 25 African Coffee producing countries. During her tenure, she successfully advocated for the empowerment of small scale coffee farmers across the continent by setting up Regional Centres of Excellence for Capacity Building of Member States, on Genetic Material Conservation, Coffee Quality Improvement and Cup Tasting Liquor in Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda, Cameroon and Zambia. Madam Sacko is one of the African Women Africa should be proud of, and she has built up her international profile and reputation by working with Regional, Global Institutional on Agriculture and many other sectors supported by World Trade Organization (WTO), African Union (AU), International Coffee Organization (ICO), African Development Bank (AFDB), African Bank for Export and Import (AFREXIMBANK), (FAO), UNECA, NEPAD etc. The other notable cooperation/partnerships she has worked with include the Regional Economic Communities (RECS), namely, SADC, COMESA, ECOWAS and EAC, where she has actively participated to address the challenges encountered by small scale farmers in Africa, ensuring that they remain a central focus in regional and national policy making for development. Madam Sacko speaks fluent Portuguese, French, English, Spanish and Lingala.

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SPEAKER PROFILES MR. RACHID BENMESSAOUD, Country Director for Nigeria and Coordinating Director for West Africa Regional Integration Program The World Bank Group Rachid Benmessaoud is the World Bank’s Country Director for the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Coordinating Director for West Africa Regional Integration since October 1, 2015. Prior to this position, Mr. Benmessaoud was the World Bank’s Country Director for Pakistan during 2010-2015, based in Islamabad. Since joining the World Bank in 1990, he has held several positions in the Bank’s Middle East and North Africa and Europe and Central Asia Regions, and worked on energy, infrastructure, and municipal finance projects. In 2003, he joined the South Asia Region as Operations Adviser for India, based in Delhi, where he oversaw the Bank’s India portfolio. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Physics from Université d’AixMarseille II, an Electrical Engineering Degree from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, a Doctor-Engineering Degree from Université de Paris XI (France); and an MBA in Finance from University of Denver (United States of America). MS. LEILA FARAH MOKADDEM, Country Manager - Morocco African Development Bank (AfDB) Recently appointed as Country manager & Resident representative of the African Development Bank in Morocco, Leila Farah Mokaddem was the Resident Representative of the AfDB in Egypt from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, she occupied the positions of Regional Resident Representative in Dakar, Senegal, and head of financial institutions where she designed innovative financial solutions for Africa including for SMEs’ guarantees, trade finance and women in business economic empowerment. Prior to AfDB, Leila was long-term fiscal advisor to the IMF. She started her carrier at the Ministry Economy of Tunisia and has MBA degree in Finance and International trade, respectively. MS. MARIE FRANCOISE MARIE NELLY, Country Director The World Bank Group Ms. Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly joined the World Bank in 1994 and has held a variety of positions focused on the restructuring of public enterprises, support to private sector development, regional integration, and management of the oil sector. Before assuming the position of World Bank Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta on July 1st, 2015, Ms. Marie-Nelly spent four years as Country Director for Nigeria, and previous to that held a number of posts including Country Director for the two Congo (Brazzaville and DRC) from 2008 to 2011, Director for the World Bank Group Program related to the Chad Petroleum and the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project from 2004 to 2007 and Director for the regional integration program in Africa from 2000 to 2004. A native of Martinique, Ms. Marie-Nelly is a Certified Public Accountant, graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Nantes and Bowling Green University (Ohio, USA). She has also completed several management programs at Harvard University in the US. She worked for many international firms and was advisor to several governments before joining the World Bank.

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SPEAKERS MR. PASI SAKARI HELLMAN, Managing Director Nordic Development Fund (NDF) Pasi Hellman has served as the Managing Director of the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) since November 2012. Hellman has more than 25 years of international experience from international development and relations, development finance and multilateral diplomacy. He has worked as a career diplomat in various positions at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in Helsinki, as well as in Finnish embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and the Hague, and the Netherlands. He has served in the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, the Philippines between 2004 and 2007. In addition, he has a wide experience from serving as Finland’s officially appointed representative in the governing bodies of various International Financial Institutions and UN organizations, including International Development Association, African Development Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development. Hellman holds a PhD (in economics) from Turku School of Economics in Finland in 1996. He has also published articles on topics related to internationalization in the financial sector, global development and development finance. DR. THOMAS EDWARD DOWNING, CEO Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) Dr. Thomas E. Downing is President and CEO of the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP). His career began with setting up the Natural Hazards Information Center in Boulder, Colorado with spells as Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme, Munich Re Foundation Chair for social vulnerability, Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute Oxford and professor in the University of Oxford. In his 30 years of experience working in the field of environment, natural disasters and resilience, he has led major projects, including EC assessments on the economics of climate change, adaptive management in water and responses to climatic hazards. He is currently leading the Private Markets for Climate Resilience project supported by the Interamerican Development Bank and Nordic Development Fund. GCAP’s software and technical advisors inform over $1 billion of investment projects around the world through Multilateral Development Banks and major donor funds. Tom is one of the most highly cited experts on climate vulnerability, impacts and adaptation and an internationally recognised thought leader. He has published over 100 papers, books, reports and book reviews, including the award winning Atlas of Climate Change (with Kirstin Dow). MRS. JANE AFRANE, Regional Head, Africa Regional Network World Green Building Council Jane Afrane is the Regional Head for World Green Building Council Africa Network. She focuses on the setting up, establishment and advancement of Green Building Councils across the Africa region. She further spearheads project development and advocacy initiatives in the region to raise and promote awareness of green building. She has vast experience in the international development sector managing multilateral projects in West and East Africa, driving the localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals and empowering local government as a key development partner. She also previously worked at UN-Habitat providing technical support to urban governance programming and decentralisation processes. Jane is an avid writer and researcher on African Urbanism, exploring the unique complexities of the urban form in contemporary African cities.

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SPEAKER PROFILES MR. VLADIMIR STENEK, Senior Climate Change Specialist International Finance Corporation (IFC)

MR. OLIVIER COLAS, Head of Business Development BlueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré)

Vladimir Stenek is Senior Climate Change Specialist at the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group. Vladimir leads IFC’s Climate Risk and Adaptation Program, which provides financial and operational climate resilience solutions for the private and public sectors. Vladimir holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from UC Berkeley; PUC, Santiago; and Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima.

Olivier Colas is Director of Storage Business development of BlueSolutions (Group Bolloré) with the objective to promote On-Grid and Off-Grid energy solutions using Renewable Energy and storage capacities to meet energy transition challenges. Before Group Bolloré, he acquired its expertise by working at E&Y as senior manager in charge of sustainable development and at IBM responsible for Smartgrid market. He has an engineering degree from a school in Paris.

DR. HENNING WUESTER (PANEL CHAIR) Director - the KPFC IRENA Henning Wuester is currently Director of Knowledge, Policy, and Finance Centre at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). From 2011 to early 2014, Dr. Wuester was working for the Green Climate Fund (GCF). He was the Secretary to the Transitional Committee that drafted the Governing Instrument for the GCF in 2011, heading a Technical Support Unit with senior staff from international financial institutions and UN agencies. Subsequently, he was the Senior Manager at the Interim Secretariat of the GCF, in charge of supporting the GCF Board, developing the Fund’s business model framework, setting up the Fund’s administrative policies and procedures and negotiating the headquarters agreement of the GCF with the Republic of Korea. From 2003 to 2010, Dr. Wuester was Special Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He was responsible for the management of the Executive Office, for overall internal policy coordination processes within the UNFCCC secretariat, liaison with the United Nations Secretary-General, and for cooperation with other organizations, in particular UN system entities. Before joining the UNFCCC from 1991 to 2003, Mr. Wuester was at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, where he performed various functions in the secretariat of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution. He studied economics and international law at Munich University (final degree in 1986) and obtained his PhD in economics there in 1990. DR. DANIEL SCHROTH Adviser to the Vice President, Power, Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth African Development Bank (AfDB) Dr. Daniel Schroth is the Advisor to the Vice President for Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth at the African Development Bank. He was previously the coordinator of the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Africa Hub hosted by the AfDB in partnership with the AU, NEPAD and UNDP. Daniel also coordinated inter alia the Africa Climate Technology and Finance Center project, the Secretariat to the African Energy Leaders Group and the Green Mini-Grid Market Development Program. Daniel has extensive experience in energy policy. Prior to joining the AfDB, he worked for several years for the European Commission in both headquarters and the field, for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and in the private sector. Daniel holds a Ph.D. and Masters in International Relations with a focus on international energy policy from the University of Cambridge, and business degrees from Reims Management School and the European School of Business (ESB) Reutlingen.

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MR. KERRY ADLER, President & CEO SkyPower Global With more than 35 years of entrepreneurial success, Kerry Adler has built a venerable career as a widely recognized business leader. A true visionary and trailblazer in the renewable energy industry for the past 14 years, Kerry was most recently honoured by the United Nations Global Compact as the 2016 Pioneer for Climate Action. As one of the first entrepreneurs in North America to advocate for a viable renewable energy industry, Kerry founded SkyPower in 2003. Under Kerry’s leadership, SkyPower has grown to become the largest and one of the most successful developers and owners of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) energy projects in the world, with vibrant growth in over 60 countries and more than 25 GW of solar projects in various stages of development. MS. HANAE RHARNIT, International Development & Cooperation Project Manager Masen Hanae RHARNIT is International Development and Cooperation Project Manager at Masen, where she has the challenge to expand Masen’s expertise by optimizing the benefits of cross-border cooperation and accelerating investments of renewable energy internationally. She has worked for 10 years in international development agencies or organisations such as UNESCO, German Cooperation (GIZ) and L’Oréal. She holds an Executive Master in Development Policies from Sciences Po Paris and a Law and Diplomacy Moroccan Master of Research. She also studied Economics at Paris Dauphine University. DR. ELHAM M. A. IBRAHIM, Vice Chair for Africa World Energy Council Dr. Elham IBRAHIM is Egyptian. She has Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication engineering. Over 43 years, Dr. Ibrahim had served in the academic research, electrical energy production & interconnection, energy strategies and policies, international cooperation, energy planning, computer aided design and management of energy projects. She held various posts; First Under Secretary of State, Under Secretary of State for International cooperation in the Ministry of Electricity in Egypt, Director in the New and Renewable Energy Authority, Associate professor at the Girl’s Faculty in Saudi Arabia, Senior Engineer at the High Dam Power Station, and Researcher at the National Research Center, Cairo. In April 2008 she was elected and appointed as the Commissioner of Infrastructure & Energy, in the African Union Commission. In July 2012 she was re-elected for the same post till March 2017. She was responsible to lead the accelerated integrated infrastructure development in Africa In October 2016 she was elected as the vice chair of the World Energy Council for Africa region to support and promote the energy development in the Continent and worldwide.

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SPEAKER PROFILES MR. LUCIANO CANALE (PANEL CHAIR) Senior Hydropower Specialist The World Bank Group Luciano Canale is a Senior Hydropower Specialist with the Energy practice at the World Bank. He graduated with a Master degree in hydraulic structures from the Technical University of Naples, Italy. He has more than 15 years of experience in the design and implementation of hydroelectric schemes and hydraulic structures. Before joining the World Bank, he has headed as Project Manager the feasibility studies, the design works and the construction supervision for several large dams and hydropower projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and Eastern Europe. He is currently involved in a number of dam and hydropower projects supported by the World Bank in the Africa Region, particularly in Cameroon, Niger, DRC, Burundi, Rwanda and Zambia. He is part of the WB team that is developing climate resilience guidelines in the hydropower sector; he is currently working on implementing hydrologic risk mitigation strategies in WB-funded projects. DR. JACQUES MOULOT, Chief Energy Specialist African Development Bank (AfDB) Dr. Moulot is Chief Energy Specialist in the Department of Power Sector Development of the African Development Bank. His main activities includes planning, preparation and investment in multinational energy projects; providing Technical Assistance, policy and strategic advisory services to key regional and national African Energy Stakeholders. He is also active in the design and implementation of programmes related to power utility turn-around. He previously held the position of Sub-Sahara Africa Senior Programme Specialist for Science and Technology in UNESCO, was the coordinator of the secretariat of UN-Energy/Africa and focal point of UN Interagency Energy Coordination Group, while in the UN-Economic Commission for Africa. Dr. Moulot is a USA AFGRAD Fellow with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with focus on renewable energy, with more than 25 years’ experience. He is the author of several publications on issues related to energy development in Africa, and is a known international keynote speaker on African energy issues. MR. CSABA MATRON, Director Global Marketing & Sales Small Hydro Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG Csaba Marton graduated in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University Berlin/ Germany, the University of Aveiro/ Portugal and the University of Brasília/ Brazil. Mr. Marton started his professional career in 1999 as consultant at Prognos, where he advised a diverse range of clients in market strategies and business development. From 2004 to 2008 he worked for Wintershall focusing on strategic planning and energy policy. In 2008 Mr. Marton joined AREVA, where he held different managing positions; the last position was that of director for Marketing in Central Europe and Nordic countries. In 2015 he joined Voith Hydro as director global marketing and sales for Small Hydro. MR. HECTOR IBARRA, CEO Global Parametrics Hector has over 20 years’ experience driving innovation in the financial industry for multilateral agencies, financial intermediaries and national/regional governments. As CEO of Global Parametrics (GP) he has the mandate to consolidate GP as the lead FinTech player in the natural disaster area by applying global climate and seismic data through specialized modeling. Before GP, Hector worked at the World Bank 24

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where he designed and placed over $1 billion in weather risk transfer in low and middle-income countries. Hector joined the World Bank from the private sector where he was Assistant VP for Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) at PartnerRe. DR. GREGORY CHARACKLIS, Professor University of North Carolina Dr. Characklis is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also serves as Director of the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems. Prior to joining UNC, Dr. Characklis served for two years as Director of Resource Development and Management at Azurix Corp. (a division of Enron Corp.) in Houston, Texas. Before that he spent two years in Washington, D.C. as a fellow with the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Characklis holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. from Rice University in Environmental Science and Engineering and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University in Materials Science and Engineering. MR. DANIEL TASENDE, Supply Planning Manager UTE (Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas) Daniel Tasende is a Supply Planning Manager at UTE (Administración de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas). He holds a Master degree in Mathematical Engineering from the UDELAR University of Uruguay. He has 35 years of experience in the optimization and simulation modelling of the Uruguayan power system, and energy investment planning. He worked on the implementation of the firm energy contracts with Argentina to back-up the system against droughts and was responsible for the optimization of contracts policy. Daniel was deeply involved in the integration of biomass and wind generation into the Country electricity matrix. He has been the head of UTE team for the preparation and execution of the weather and oil price insurance transaction. Currently, he is working in long term planning of the transmission system to be able to support the renewable energy development. MR. YUAN YONG LONG, Vice President Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Ltd Mr. Yuan Yong Long is currently Vice President at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. Yong joined Swiss Re as an Agricultural Underwriter in 2007. Thanks to his efforts, Swiss Re became one of the market leaders for agricultural reinsurance in China and achieved significant growth in agricultural reinsurance in Asia. Yong executed a couple of innovative transactions at Swiss Re. In 2009, he concluded the agricultural reinsurance transaction with the Beijing municipal government. This transaction set up the first example of a regional government utilizing reinsurance solutions to manage the natural catastrophic exposure in China. He developed the first precipitation index insurance solution for a hydropower company, the first wind index solution for a wind farm and the first solar radiation index solution for a solar power plant. With these transactions he won twice Weather Risk Management Transaction of the Year Award by Environmental Finance. Yong worked as a Credit Analyst from 2002 to 2005 at Bank of Shanghai. Yong graduated from the Finance Department of East China Normal University with a Master Degree in Economics in 2002. He obtained an MBA degree from University St. Gallen in Switzerland in 2006.

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SPEAKER PROFILES MR. KHALID BENHAMOU, CEO Sahara Wind

MR. YARIV KEDAR, Africa Director GreenArava LTD

Khalid Benhamou (B.S. Engineering 1992, California Polytechnic University, USA) installed Morocco’s first hybrid wind/diesel system on the Sahara trade windblown coastline in 1994. As founder and developer of the Sahara Wind 5GW-HVDC regional transmission project connecting Africa to Europe, he established the link between the Atlantic trade winds and 71% of the World phosphates reserves. Presented at the European parliament in 2002, the project inspired several EU-backed initiatives and obtained funding from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). To leverage the Atlantic trade winds in processing the region’s key mineral resources, he coordinates industry-academia capacity building in Morocco and Mauritania.

Yariv has over 34 years of experience in agriculture- more than 20 years in Africa and Latin America. In Africa, he pioneered a comprehensive product for small-scale growers allowing them access to training, high quality inputs and agro-support which won several awards on poverty, hunger and youth employment from the UNDP and Africa Development. In all his undertakings, Yariv advocates for sustainable agribusiness practices and integrating host communities. For his work on food security, he was recently awarded by Society for International Development (SID-Israel) the Award for Changing Lives in Developing World (Private Sector).

DR. UWE SEEBACHER (MBA), Global Director Marketing and Communication, Pumps ANDRITZ Uwe Seebacher, PhD in Economics and Business Administration, is running the global marketing and communications activities for the PUMPS global division segment of ANDRITZ Group headquartered in Graz/Austria. He has an international track record in strategic and operational marketing and communication as well as organizational development. He is lecturer at many highly recognized business schools and universities and author of many leading management publications published at for example Springer New York or Harvard Business Manager. For his innovative marketing concepts and initiatives for institutions and projects such as Allianz, European Union, Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Bayer Leverkusen, BASF, and many others he was awarded with many different awards such as the DISKOBOLOS INNOVATION AWARD by the European Chamber of Commerce or the Export Award 2016 by the Federal Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Seebacher’s experience includes over 20 years in manufacturing, energy and services industry. MRS. PHILIPPA CHARLTON, Chief Marketing Officer Averda Philippa Charlton is Chief Marketing Officer at Averda, the largest integrated waste management provider in the GCC and Africa. Philippa is responsible for building the Averda brand globally across government and industrial business leading a team of multinational marketers. She joined Averda in 2013, prior to this she was Group Marketing Director of the Global Merchant, PaperlinX and held various Executive level appointments in an International Security business, Telecommunications and the paper industry. Philippa has a joint Major in English and Film from U.E.A in the UK, a Post-Graduate Diploma from Demonfort University and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. DR. ELEANOR BLYTH, Head of Hydro-Climate Risks CEH (Centre of Ecology & Hydrology) Dr. Eleanor Blyth is acting Head of Hydro-Climate Risks at the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, UK. CEH works in West and East Africa on droughts, floods and intense rainfall and how these extremes may change in a future climate. The team are international leaders in both observational techniques. Using site-based instrumentation and satellite data, as well as modelling. Dr Blyth’s scientific expertise is the role of the land surface in climate, meteorology and hydrology, with specialist expertise in Evapotranspiration and Land-Atmosphere Interactions.

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MS. MAGDA LOVEI (PANEL CHAIR) Practice Manager, Environment Practice, Africa Region The World Bank Group Magda Lovei has been working at the World Bank since 1993. Early in her career in the Bank, she worked on investment projects, policy-based lending operations, studies, and technical assistance programs in several countries from Africa to Eastern Europe, East and Central Asia, and Latin America. During the 1980s, she led the Bank’s successful global initiative aimed at phasing out leaded gasoline world-wide. As Lead Environmental Economist at the Environment Department of the World Bank, she was in charge of the preparation and implementation oversight of the World Bank’s first corporate Environment Strategy, approved by the Bank’s Board of Directors in 2001. Since 2003, Ms. Lovei has held various management positions including Sector Manager for Environment, in the East Asia and the Pacific Region (EAP); Manager of Policy and Operations, Sustainable Development Department (EAP); Sector Manager for Social Development, Environment, and Rural Development (EAP); and Sector Manager for Environment, Natural Resources, Water, and Disaster Risk Management in the Africa Region. Ms. Lovei holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Budapest, Hungary; and an MBA in finance from the George Washington University, U.S. She is an author of several publications. DR. LAOUALI GARBA, Chief Climate Change Officer, Coordinator CSA African Development Bank (AfDB) Mr. Laouali GARBA is currently the Coordinator of the AfDB’s African climate – smart agriculture (ACSA) programme which aims to scale up the development of CSA infrastructure and technologies in Africa. Dr Garba is a Civil Engineer with a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. He has more than 20 years of experience in environmental and climate change studies, preparation/ implementation of infrastructure projects in various fields such as natural resource management, energy, pollution control, water supply and sanitation, urban and rural infrastructure, agriculture, agribusiness, climate change adaptation and mitigation. He started his career as an environmental engineer with private companies for promoting the building of sustainable infrastructure in Africa. Since 2011, with the African Development Bank, he is working on the development of sustainable and climate resilient infrastructure for the transformation of African agriculture.

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SPEAKER PROFILES HON. PATRICIA APPIAGYEI, Deputy Minister Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation; Republic of Ghana

H.E. DR. MOHAMED ABDEL ATY, Minister Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation (MWRI); Egypt

Hon. Patricia APPIAGYEI has served the Government of the Republic of Ghana since 2005, currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma from the Institute of Economic Studies & Development in Italy, and a B.A HONS (Knust). Prior to joining the Government, Hon. APPIAGYEI served the City Investments Company Ltd. as Director of Marketing (1995-2010), before becoming Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister in 2005, then MCE (2006-2009), and a Member of Parliament in 2013 through to 2016.

Dr. Mohamed Abdel Aty, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt and Vice-President of AMCOW. Solid international experience in climate change impact assessment on water resources, infrastructure feasibility, agriculture, flood and disaster risk management. Broad international work experiences worldwide, notably in Africa. Water resources planner and manager, with thirty years of academic research and national, regional and international practical experiences in formulating, monitoring and evaluating water plans and development policies. Strong projects management and contracts administration experience. Several contributions to the second and fourth world water forum in Netherlands and Mexico, and an involvement with the next generation of water leaders group.

HON. JANUARY YUSUF MAKAMBA, Minister of State Environment & Union Matters United Republic of Tanzania

MR. HACHIMOU ISSAKA, Technical Advisor to the Commissioner Commission de l’UEMOA

MR. DAWUD MUME ALI Director - Plan & Budget Development, Monitoring & Evaluation Directorate Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Dawud Mume ALI currently serves as the Director of Policy Planning and Budget Development, within the Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, of The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. He graduated from Haramaya University, Ethiopia and excels in Management by profession. Mr. ALI has worked in various Regional and Federal Government institutions at different Executive positions for the past 15 years, mainly: Mayor of Chiro town in Oromia, National Regional State, Head of Government Communication Affairs Office in Oromia Region, Head of Culture and Tourism Office after which he was promoted to the top leadership position of Federal Government organisation, appointed by the Prime Minister, to the position of Director General of the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as of 1st November 2013 till April 2017. Voluntarily, Mr. ALI serves as the African Elephant Coalition Ambassador to the African Union as of June 2017, and Member of the Board of Ethiopian Red Cross Society, Oromia Region. MS. DAHLIA LOTAYEF (PANEL CHAIR) Lead Environmental Specialist The World Bank Group Dahlia Lotayef is a Lead Environmental Specialist in the Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice at the World Bank Group. She is currently responsible for the West Africa Coastal Areas Program (WACA) as well as several programs on managing environmental risk and pollution. Ms Lotayef has extensive experience in developing, managing, and working on multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral policies, programs and projects at the local and international levels. She has designed and managed a large number of environmental projects, including but not limited to pollution control, air quality management, information and monitoring. Ms Lotayef is an Egyptian national and holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering, with more than 25 years of professional experience in the field of the environment from governmental and non-governmental jobs.

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Mr. Hachimou ISSAKA currently serves the Commission de l’UEMOA as Technical Advisor to the Commissioner in charge of DSAME / DAREN, a position he has held since November 2013. He joined the Commission in 2013, where he started as Environment Officer. Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. ISSAKA served the National Environment Directorate as Program Officer (1996-1998) and Departmental Director at the Urban Community of Niamey (1994-1996). DR. WERNER EKAU, Head of Department Ecology Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research ZMT Dr. Werner Ekau is Head of Department Ecology in the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, Germany. He is also the Director of the Operational Centre Germany of International Ocean Institute IOI. He is a fisheries biologist by training working since 1991 in tropical ecosystems. The last activity was the project AWA (Ecosystem Approach to the management of fisheries and the marine environment in West African waters) with the aim to understand the recruitment potential of the coastal species Bonga shad (Ethmalosa fimbriata). Ekau is engaged in Capacity Development and member of IOC, ICES and LME workgroups. DR. KANTA KUMARI RIGAUD (PANEL CHAIR) Lead Environment Specialist, Climate Change Coordinator, Africa Region The World Bank Group Kanta Kumari Rigaud is a Lead Environmental Specialist at the World Bank. Kanta joined the Bank in 2004, coming from the Global Environment Facility. At the Bank, she has worked in the Middle East North Africa Region, the Climate Change Group and is now in the Africa Region as the Regional Coordinator of Climate Change. She has led the Bank’s flagship report series - “Turn Down the Heat” which focused on the nexus of climate science and development; and more recently the report “Groundswell – Preparing for Internal Climate Migration - working with leading research and scientific institutions to pioneer these reports. She has also led the development of key tools and learning platform related to climate screening and climate services, and served until recently as the Bank’s focal point for the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience which operates in 28 countries. She is the co-chair for KNOMAD’s Technical Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration. Kanta has a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

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SPEAKER PROFILES DR. JUSTUS JOSEPH KABYEMERA, Coordinator - ClimDev Africa Special Fund African Development Bank (AfDB)

MR. ANDREW LOSOS (PANEL CHAIR) Senior Sustainable Transport Specialist The World Bank Group

Dr. Justus Joseph KABYEMERA, is the Coordinator of ClimDev Africa Special Fund at the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Prior to his appointment Dr. Kabyemera was the Chief Policy Economist in the Results and Quality Assurance Department of the Bank. He has a PhD in Economic and Social Development, a Masters’ Degree in Agricultural Economics and an MBA in Leadership. Dr. Kabyemera has a rich professional grasp in Agricultural Development, Natural Resources Management/ Climate Change and Development; and Policy Analysis and Development. Dr. Kabyemera also has a passion to writing – both professional and for leisure. His recent publication “Leadership Skills for the 21st Century – A Guide for Top Managers” has been read and appreciated in various leadership quarters across the Globe.

A specialist in sustainable transportation, Andrew Losos has over twenty years of experience in transport, fifteen in international development, and more than ten in climate change. For the past nine years he has been leading investment and analytical projects on climate change, transport, and sustainable development in Northern and Central Africa for the World Bank. Before joining the Bank, he worked for the Canadian Shipowners Association as Manager of Environmental Policy, and in the Canadian public service as a senior climate change policy analyst. Andrew holds a Masters’ of Environmental Studies from York University and a Bachelors’ of Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has had a past career as a naval officer and has lived and worked in Haiti on a rural drinking water project.

DR. CHRISTOPHER JACK, Researcher CSAG - University of Cape Town

MR. GERARD MARK DOHERTY, Head of F-Lab Division European Space Agency (ESA)

Dr. Christopher Jack is a senior researcher in the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) at the University of Cape Town. He is also a researcher fellow in the African Climate Development Initiative, a research institute within UCT. Christopher’s background in computer science and climate science with particular expertise in climate data management, climate downscaling, and climate services. Over the past decade Christopher has increasingly operated across the boundary between climate science and decision making across Africa. He currently leads the climate science activity with the FRACTAL project, a DFID/NERC activity exploring climate resilience in African cities. Christopher’s passion is an ethical, defensible, actionable engagement between science and society.

Mark Doherty is a senior advisor in the European Space Agency’s Directorate of Earth Observation, based at ESA ESRIN Frascati, Italy. Mark has been leading ESA programmes to expand the use and benefits of Satellite observations of the Earth, by engaging with science, public and private sector user communities in Europe and worldwide. He led ESA’s first programme on GMES (now Copernicus) and in 2011 launched ESA’s Climate Change Initiative for the “Essential Climate Variables”. His current focus is how to realize the full scientific, societal and commercial potential of global satellite observations.

MR. ANDRE KAMGA FOAMOUHOUE, Chief of Climate and Environment Department African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) Andre KAMGA FOAMOUHOUE comes from the coastal town of Douala, Cameroon, and currently serves as the Chief - Climate and Environment Programme at ACMAD. Andre has more than fifteen years of experience planning/developing/disseminating climate products and services with national, regional and global climate and development institutions or programmes (NMHSs, WMO, NOAA, ECMWF, IRI, ACMAD, Hadley Centre, UNECA, UNISDR, UNOCHA, World Bank, IFRC, ECOWAS, ECCAS, Niger river Basin Authority, Lake Chad Basin Commission, Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, UNESCO, CGIAR/CIFOR, CGIAR/ CCAFS, AMMA, RCOFS, RCC, MESA…). He has has more than five years of experience managing/coordinating WMO Regional Climate Centres and Climate services for building resilience projects in Africa funded by EU, US, Canada, UK, France, Japan and other developed countries international cooperation for development agencies/ programmes. He also holds membership to various societies & committees.

HON. DR. ABDELKADER IMARA, Minister Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics & Water; Kingdom of Morocco Dr. Abdelkader Amara, appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water on 5 April 2017, was born in Bouarfa (Province of Figuig) on 28 January 1962. Dr. Amara was Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies from January 2012 to October 2013, then Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment from October 2013 to October 2016. During these two mandates, he oversaw structuring projects, including the implementation of Bombardier plant and the launch of the second production line of Renault Tangier. He developed and implemented structural reforms in the field of energy and mining, in particular the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, the reform of the artisanal mining activity and the creation of the Moroccan Agency for Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security as well as the Electricity Regulatory Agency. Dr. Abdelkader Amara holds a Doctorate from the Hassan II Agronomic and Veterinary Institute in 1986, where he was a Professor until 2002. He also worked as a scientific advisor at the World Science Organization based in Sweden during 10 years. During his political career, Dr. Amara was elected as a Member of Parliament for Sala Al Jadida, Salé Prefecture, during four terms in 2002, 2007, 2011 and 2016. He was Chairman of the Productive Sectors Committee, Vice-president of the JDP Parliamentary Group and First Vice-president of the House of Representatives. HON. JEAN BOSCO NTUNZWENIMANA, Minister Ministry of Transport, Public Works & Equipment; Republic of Burundi

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SPEAKER PROFILES MR. KOUASSI JOSEPH N’GUESSAN, Chief Transport Engineer African Development Bank (AfDB) Kouassi Joseph N’GUESSAN currently serves as the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Chief Transport Engineer, within the Infrastructure, Cities and Urban Development Department. He has been with the Bank for over ten years, serving as the Chief Transport Engineer for more than five. Mr. N’GUESSAN has 22 years of practical experience including 15 years as Head of Mission on project management in multidisciplinary teams and various areas: transport (roads, tracks, railway, port, airport, civil engineering works), urban planning and Development, rural infrastructure, hydraulic infrastructure. He holds both a Masters Degree and Civil Engineer Degree, whilst currently working towards a Doctorate in Business Administration. MS. MALAYA ZUMEL, Regional Coordinator for Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific European Investment Bank (EIB) Ms. Zumel is the European Investment Bank’s Regional Coordinator for Transport in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Prior to this, she was adviser to EIB Management and held various positions at the Ministry of Finance of the Netherlands. Amongst others, she was the lead COP negotiator for Finance and the Treasury’s senior representative for task forces on financing for development, climate change and energy, tasked with a pipeline of public and private sector projects inside and outside of Europe. As an economist and a social geographer, she also worked on these issues at staff and Board level at the EBRD the GCF, the IMF and the UN. MR. AAGE JORGENSEN, Program Manager Nordic Development Fund (NDF) Aage Jorgensen has for the past decade been Country Program Manager at the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) where he has helped built up a portfolio of climate change projects. He works with climate resilient infrastructure and urban development and is responsible for the NDF support to several countries in Africa and Central America. Prior to joining NDF in 2009, Mr Jorgensen worked for many years as a socio-environmental consultant to World Bank, Global Environment Facility, European Commission, Inter-American Development Bank, UN, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danish Ministry of Environment, and NGOs. Mr Jorgensen holds a PhD equivalent degree in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. MR. AL-HAMNDOU DORSOUMA, Division Manager African Development Bank (AfDB) Al-Hamdou Dorsouma works as Manager for Climate and Green Growth Division within the African Development Bank. He is responsible for managing a team of Climate Change and Growth Officers and leading Bank’s efforts on climate change in Africa, including building climate resilience and low carbon opportunities into Bank’s investments, and supporting Bank’s engagement on climate resilience and green growth. His academic background is Geography and Environmental Management. Recently, Mr. Dorsouma worked as the Officer-In-Charge of the Bank’s Climate Finance Division, leading Bank’s climate finance initiatives, including the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility and the Climate Investment Funds, among others. Before that, he worked as the Team Leader for Energy Efficiency under the AfDB’s Presidential Task Force on the New Deal on Energy for Africa, after serving at various positions at the AfDB since 2009, including as Chief Climate Change Officer. He also worked for two other international organizations, namely the Observatory of Sahara

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and Sahel (OSS) from 2005 to 2009 as Environment and Climate Change Officer and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from 2012 to 2014 as Senior Programme Manager for Resource Mobilization and Development Partnerships. MR. PETER SIDERMAN, PIP Advisor Partners in Performance Peter has several decades of experience in business and advisory roles in Europe, the United States and Latin America. For the past eight years he has worked with Partners in Performance (PIP), the global operations effectiveness specialist. Previously he worked with the former German minister for the Economy, Wolfgang Clement, to create an institute focused on the future of work, based in Zurich, and also with McKinsey, the management consultancy. He holds an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago, as well as an M.Phil from Oxford University in Latin American Studies, and a BA in languages and area studies from Portsmouth University in the UK. MR. LINUS MOFOR Senior Environmental Affairs Officer (Energy, Infrastructure and Climate Change) UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Dr. Linus Mofor is a Senior Environmental Affairs Officer in charge of energy, infrastructure and climate change at the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His work portfolio at the ACPC includes leading the Africa Climate Resilient Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) – a joint initiative of the ECA, World Bank, African Development, African Union Commission and the Nordic Development Fund. AFRI–RES aims to strengthen the capacity of African institutions (including national Governments, river basin organizations, regional economic communities and power pools, among others), as well as the private sector (project developers and financiers), to plan, design and implement infrastructure investments that are resilient to climate variability and change in selected sectors, thus enhancing the chances for investments and infrastructure to perform in both today’s and future climate. He joined the Commission from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) where he worked as a renewable energy innovation and technology analyst. Before joining IRENA, Linus was an industrial development expert with the Energy and Climate Change Branch of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna. Prior to working with UNIDO, he was a senior lecturer and consultant at the Centre for Engineering Research and Environmental Applications at the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) in UK. MR. KUMESH NAIDOO, Program Development Specialist Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

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SUPPORTING PARTNERS African Union Commission (AUC) The Commission is the Secretariat of the Union entrusted with executive functions. It is composed of 10 Officials: A Chairperson, a Deputy Chairperson; Eight (8) Commissioners and Staff members. The structure represents the Union and protects its interest under the auspices of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government as well as the Executive Committee. The AU Commission is made up of Portfolios. They are: Peace and Security; Political Affairs; Trade and Industry; Infrastructure and Energy; Social Affairs; Rural Economy and Agriculture; Human Resources, Science and Technology; and Economic Affairs. Mission and Values of the AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION The mission of the Commission is to become an efficient and value-adding institution driving the African integration and development process in close collaboration with African Union Member States, the Regional Economic Communities and African citizens.

The European Investment Bank: promoting change in Africa

The World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group, which is part of the United Nations system. The World Bank’s official goal is the reduction of poverty. However, according to its Articles of Agreement, all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of Capital investment.

The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) is the joint development finance institution of the five Nordic countries. The objective of NDF’s operations is to facilitate climate change investments in low-income countries. NDF finances in cooperation with bilateral and multilateral development institutions. The operations mirror the Nordic countries’ priorities in the areas of climate change and development. NDF’s capital is provided from the development cooperation budgets of the five Nordic countries. AfDB The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is Africa’s premier development finance institution. It comprises three distinct entities: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF). On the ground in 34 African countries with an external office in Japan, the AfDB contributes to the economic development and the social progress of its 54 regional member states.

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Creating the conditions for sustainable economic development lies at the heart of the European Investment Bank’s activities outside the European Union. The Bank employs a range of financial instruments to support private sector companies across Africa, from ambitious start-ups and microenterprises to established corporate players, and everything in between. Our operations are scalable and adaptable, and we apply the highest of standards to all that we do. With our ever-evolving suite of financing options, we go beyond lending to include tailor made advisory services and technical assistance packages, and combine the experience gained from all regions of the world and all sectors of the economy to help create jobs and improve lives everywhere. www.eib.org

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especially a priority for African countries like Burkina Faso or Mali, to name a few, where more than 70% of the population still lacks access to electricity. Including targets for decentralised renewables in the NDCs can help promoting inclusive economic development by increasing energy access.

Opportunities and Challenges in implementing African NDCs:

The inclusion of an ambitious renewables components in the NDCs can help attract additional investment in the renewable energy sector. Setting consistent renewables targets based on accurate national and regional data and assumptions will improve the quality of NDCs. Renewables targets in African countries are generally very specific, which helps ensure clarity on the investment environment and facilitates turning NDCs into investment plans. As work advances towards the planned revision of NDCs in 2020, countries can progressively increase the quality of their NDCs by basing their targets on sound data and projections across the energy sector and on other economic variables.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM ANALYSIS OF RENEWABLES COMPONENTS OF NDCs By the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

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ince its inception, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has been supporting countries in their transition to a sustainable energy future, serving as the principal platform for international cooperation and a repository of policy, technology, resource and financial knowledge on renewable energy. Supporting Africa in accessing its huge renewable energy potential on the continent has always been a priority. The mounting threat of climate change worldwide and in particular for some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, including those in Africa, has given additional urgency to an accelerated deployment of renewable energy. Renewables, together with energy efficiency, are key to addressing climate change, offering countries in Africa with a further opportunity to advance energy objectives and drive economic growth. The Paris Agreement that entered into force in November 2016 is the most ambitious effort of the global community to address climate change, and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are a cornerstone of this Agreement. IRENA has undertaken an analysis of the renewable energy component of these NDCs, and some of the findings of this analysis, specific to Africa, are summarized below.

Due to its growing population and continued economic development, it is anticipated that Africa will have some of the highest energy demand growth in the world. Accelerated deployment of modern renewables in the region offers a unique opportunity to meet this demand

in a cost-effective manner, while creating jobs and fostering economic growth, and at the same time pursuing a sustainable, low-carbon development path. Recognising the key role of renewables to achieve both climate and development goals, 52 out of 54 African countries included renewables in their NDCs. Some countries not only recognised the role of renewables for the purposes of mitigation, but also for building resilience in the face of growing climate change impacts. Africa is among the regions with the most ambitious renewables components in NDCs. While at the global level, the NDCs are not keeping up with the pace of recent actual renewables deployment, IRENA analysis shows that African NDCs are ambitious and would lead to a significant acceleration in the uptake of renewables in the continent. The renewables targets of NDCs in fact constitute a three-fold

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increase in the average level of annual renewable energy deployment, increasing its annual average growth from 2.1 gigawatts (GW) (20102016) to 5.8 GW (2015-2030). There is, however, room for further ambition. IRENA estimates that if the renewables components of existing NDCs are fully implemented, nearly 95 GW of additional renewable energy capacity will be added in Africa between 2015 and 2030. This would represent a three-fold increase in total installed capacity compared to 2014. This compares to the even larger potential for a cost-effective deployment of renewables which IRENA has estimated to be 310 GW by 2030, provided that the African economy continues to grow at current rates. This suggests that there is significant potential for increasing renewable energy targets in the next round of NDCs.

IRENA stands ready to support countries in Africa in implementing and further developing the renewable energy component of their NDCs. Based on its analysis, it can facilitate processes that bring together the stakeholders from climate, energy, finance and other sectors necessary to ensure adequate integration with other efforts. The NDCs provide an opportunity to accelerate investment dynamics for renewable energy so that Africa can more rapidly benefit from the economic development that renewables can bring.

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 oroccan Delegation: Ministry of Energy, M Mines & the Environment, Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics & Water, and Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

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22  IGAD Climate Prediction & Applications Centre (ICPAC)

3 African Development Bank (AfDB)

23 Environmental General Authority; Libya

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24 European Investment Bank (EIB)

5 Ministry of Public Works & Transport; Algeria

25  Ministry of Finance Economic Planning & Development; Malawi

6 B  urkina Faso Delegation: National Council for Sustainable Development, and Commission de l’UEMOA 7 Burundi Delegation: Ministry of Transport, Public Works & Equipment, Ministry of Water, Environment, Land Management & Urban Planning, DPPF, Agency for the Realization of Works of Public Interest (ABUTIP), and Office for Environment Protection (OBPE) 8 Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature & Sustainable Development; Cameroon 9  ECREEE (ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency) 10 Ministry of the Environment & Sustainable Development; Central African Republic 11 Ministry of Environment & Fisheries; Chad 12 Ministry of Economy & Finance; Cote d’Ivoire

26  Environment & Sustainable Development Agency; Mali 27  Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa (RERA) 28 African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) 29 N  iger Delegation; Ministry of Planning, and National Council for the Environment for Sustainable Development (CNED) 30 FONERWA - Rwanda’s Green Fund 31 A  PERAS-NGOs Association for Promotion of Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment “Sao Tome and Principe” 32 Senegal Delegation; Directorate of the Environment & Classified Establishments (DEEC), Senegal Economic, Social & Environmental Council

13 Egyptian Delegation; Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation (MWRI), and Ministry of Electricity & Renewable Energy

33  Directorate of Environment; Office of the Prime Minister; Somalia

Ministry of Forests & Environment; Equatorial 14  Guinea

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15 African Union Commission (AUC) 16  Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change; Ethiopia UN Economic Commission for Africa 17  (UNECA) 18 Nordic Development Fund (NDF) 19  Department of Water Resources; The Gambia 20 Ghana Delegation; Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology & Innovation, and Environmental Protection Agency

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MOROCCAN DELEGATION: MINISTRY OF ENERGY, MINES & THE ENVIRONMENT, MINISTRY OF EQUIPMENT, TRANSPORT, LOGISTICS & WATER, AND GLOBAL GREEN GROWTH INSTITUTE (GGGI)

THE WORLD BANK GROUP The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It comprises two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank is a component of the World Bank Group, which is part of the United Nations system. The World Bank’s official goal is the reduction of poverty. However, according to its Articles of Agreement, all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of Capital investment. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AFDB) The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is Africa’s premier development finance institution. It comprises three distinct entities: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF). The bank has a physical presence in 34 African countries and an external office in Japan. In line with its High5 agenda, the African Development Bank strategically contributes to the economic development and social progress of its 54 regional member states. IRENA The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organisation that supports countries in their transition to a sustainable energy future, and serves as the principal platform for international cooperation, a centre of excellence, and a repository of policy, technology, resource and financial knowledge on renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity. With a mandate from countries around the world, IRENA encourages governments to adopt enabling policies for renewable energy investments, provides practical tools and policy advice to accelerate renewable energy deployment, and facilitates knowledge sharing and technology transfer to provide clean, sustainable energy for the world’s growing population MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS & TRANSPORT; ALGERIA

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ROUNDTABLE PROFILES BURUNDI DELEGATION: MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, PUBLIC WORKS & EQUIPMENT, MINISTRY OF WATER, ENVIRONMENT, LAND MANAGEMENT & URBAN PLANNING, DPPF, AGENCY FOR THE REALIZATION OF WORKS OF PUBLIC INTEREST (ABUTIP), AND OFFICE FOR ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (OBPE)

and Energy; Social Affairs; Rural Economy and Agriculture; Human Resources, Science and Technology; and Economic Affairs. The mission of the Commission is to become an efficient and value-adding institution driving the African integration and development process in close collaboration with African Union Member States, the Regional Economic Communities and African citizens.

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, PROTECTION OF NATURE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; CAMEROON

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST & CLIMATE CHANGE; ETHIOPIA

ECREEE (ECOWAS CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY & ENERGY EFFICIENCY) ECREEE aspires to contribute to the sustainable economic, social and environmental development of West Africa by improving access to modern, reliable and affordable energy services, energy security and reduction of negative environmental externalities of the energy system (e.g. GHG emissions, local pollution). ECREEE aims to create favourable framework conditions, and an enabling environment for renewable energy and energy efficiency markets by supporting activities directed at mitigating existing barriers within the technological, financial, economic, business, legal, policy, institutional, knowledge and capacity-building framework. MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT & FISHERIES; CHAD

UN ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA (UNECA) Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member States, foster intraregional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa’s development. Made up of 54 member States, and playing a dual role as a regional arm of the UN and as a key component of the African institutional landscape, ECA is well positioned to make unique contributions to address the Continent’s development challenges. NORDIC DEVELOPMENT FUND (NDF) Established by the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), NDF is the only joint Nordic finance institution focusing exclusively on climate change and development in low-income countries. NDF finances climaterelated projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, usually in collaboration with trusted partners including other Nordic and international financial institutions, multilateral development banks and aid agencies. We flexibly use grants and other innovative forms of support, striving to add value beyond financing through interventions with good prospects for upscaling and replication. NDF’s total assets amount to approximately EUR 850 million, with around EUR 45-55 million allocated each year to meet new commitments.

MINISTRY OF ECONOMY & FINANCE; COTE D’IVOIRE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES; THE GAMBIA EGYPTIAN DELEGATION; MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES & IRRIGATION (MWRI), AND MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY & RENEWABLE ENERGY

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GHANA DELEGATION; MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATERS AND FORESTRY - ENVIRONMENT SAFEGUARD FUND; GUINEA

AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION The Commission is the Secretariat of the Union entrusted with executive functions. It is composed of 10 Officials: A Chairperson, a Deputy Chairperson; Eight (8) Commissioners and Staff members. The structure represents the Union and protects its interest under the auspices of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government as well as the Executive Committee. The AU Commission is made up of Portfolios. They are: Peace and Security; Political Affairs; Trade and Industry; Infrastructure

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ROUNDTABLE PROFILES IGAD CLIMATE PREDICTION & APPLICATIONS CENTRE (ICPAC) The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is prone to extreme climate events such as droughts and floods. These extreme events have severe negative impacts on key socio-economic sectors of all the countries in the sub-region. In 1986, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda formed the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD) to mitigate against the effects of recurring droughts and other natural disasters. To operationalize IGADD, in 1989, Eastern and Southern Africa joined hands bringing together 24 countries to establish a Drought Monitoring Centre, in response to the devastating weather related disasters. In 1996 Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) was formed to supersede IGADD. In October 2003, the Heads of State and Governments of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) held their 10th Summit in Kampala, Uganda, where Drought Monitoring Center-Nairobi (DCMN) was adopted as a specialized IGAD institution; later changed to IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) in order to better reflect all its mandates, mission and objectives within the IGAD system. A Protocol integrating the institution fully into IGAD was signed on 13 April 2007. The Centre is responsible for eight member countries namely: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda as well as Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania.

AFRICAN CENTRE FOR METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT (ACMAD) ACMAD is the Weather and Climate Centre with African continental competence. It was created in 1987 by the Conference of Ministers of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). ACMAD has been operational in Niamey since 1992. ACMAD is composed of 53 Member States, the 53 countries of “Africa” continent. To ensure its mission, ACMAD functions primarily with meteorologists detached by its Members States. NIGER DELEGATION; MINISTRY OF PLANNING, AND NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (CNED)

ENVIRONMENTAL GENERAL AUTHORITY; LIBYA EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK (EIB) The European Investment Bank is the largest multilateral provider of climate financing in the world promoting environmental projects in the EU and beyond. In 2017, the EIB financed EUR 16.7 billion in projects for the natural and human environment. MINISTRY OF FINANCE ECONOMIC PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT; MALAWI

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY; MALI

REGIONAL ELECTRICITY REGULATORS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (RERA) The Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa (RERA) was established in 2002 with the following objectives: 1. Capacity Building & Information Sharing, 2. Facilitation of ESI Policy, Legislation & Regulations, and 3. Regional Regulation Cooperation. RERA’s mission is to facilitate the harmonization of regulatory policies, legislation, standards and practices and to be a platform for effective cooperation among energy regulators within the SADC region.

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CHINA ROAD AND BRIDGE CORPORATION CRBC, one of the four large State-owned contracting companies of China entering international markets as pioneer, mainly focuses on the contracting of such projects as roads, bridges, ports, railways, airports, real estate, industrial parks, etc. As well as the investment, industrial development and operation services. With its nearly 60 branch offices over countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, CRBC has established an efficient and rapid operation and development management network. Now, it is an important carrier, window and platform for the overseas businesses of China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC), a Fortune 500 enterprise. CRBC has successfully completed a number of highly acclaimed landmark projects. Some of them have won domestic and international best quality awards. CRBC, now a brand name in the engineering industry, is enjoying a high reputation worldwide. Address: No. 88 C, Street An ding men wai, Bejing 10011 | Tel: 86-10-64280055 | Website: www.crbc.com w w w. gr vgl o b a l . co m 43

ROUNDTABLE PROFILES FONERWA - RWANDA’S GREEN FUND Rwanda’s Green Fund is a ground-breaking environment and climate change investment fund. It is the engine of green growth in Rwanda and serves as an example for what’s possible - in Africa and around the world. The fund invests in the best public and private projects that have the potential for transformative change and that align with Rwanda’s commitment to building a strong green economy. The Green Fund also provides expert technical assistance to ensure the success of its investments. The fund is known locally as FONERWA. APERAS-NGOS ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT “SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE” SENEGAL DELEGATION; DIRECTORATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT & CLASSIFIED ESTABLISHMENTS (DEEC), SENEGAL ECONOMIC, SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL

DIRECTORATE OF ENVIRONMENT; OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER; SOMALIA

MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES; SOMALILAND Somaliland is categorized as semi-arid land and is situated in natural disaster prone region and is regularly faced with droughts, floods and water points conflict driven emergencies. Ministry of Water Development is responsible for the water security. CRIDF (CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FACILITY) The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) is a DFID (UK Aid) supported programme working to provide long-term solutions to water issues that affect the lives of the poor in Southern Africa. Our focus is not on building short-term water infrastructure, but on working with organisations to show them how they can better build and manage their own water infrastructure to improve people’s lives. Because rivers, lakes and river basins cross borders, CRIDF is working with 12 different countries in Southern Africa that share water resources. In so doing, CRIDF aims to improve the lives of over 200 million people, many of them extremely poor. DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) was established in 1983 to perform a broad economic development function within the homeland constitutional dispensation that prevailed at the time. The DBSA seeks to play a pivotal role in delivering developmental infrastructure in South Africa and the rest of the African continent.

UGANDAN DELEGATION; MINISTRY OF WATER & ENVIRONMENT AND ELECTRICITY REGULATORY AUTHORITY

NILE BASIN INITIATIVE (NBI) The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) is an intergovernmental partnership of 10 Nile Basin countries, namely Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, The Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Eritrea participates as an observer. For the first time in the Basin’s history, an all-inclusive basinwide institution was established, on 22nd February, 1999, to provide a forum for consultation and coordination among the Basin States for the sustainable management and development of the shared Nile Basin water and related resources for win-win benefits. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION (IFC) IFC—a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. We utilize and leverage our products and services—as well as products and services of other institutions in the World Bank Group—to provide development solutions customized to meet clients’ needs. We apply our financial resources, technical expertise, global experience, and innovative thinking to help our partners overcome financial, operational, and political challenges. Clients view IFC as a provider and mobilizer of scarce capital, knowledge, and longterm partnerships that can help address critical constraints in areas such as finance, infrastructure, employee skills, and the regulatory environment. IFC is also a leading mobilizer of third-party resources for its projects. Our willingness to engage in difficult environments and our leadership in crowding-in private finance enable us to extend our footprint and have a development impact well beyond our direct resources. ZAMBEZI RIVER AUTHORITY The Zambezi River Authority commits itself to satisfying all stakeholders, through purposefully and sustainably exploiting the natural advantages of the Zambezi River. Their vision is to be a dynamic vibrant organization inspired by our passion to harness and manage the Zambezi waters for socio-economic development, through such values as Fairness, Transparency, Integrity, Respect, Healthy and Safety, and Professionalism. ZIMBABWE DELEGATION; ZIMBABWE NATIONAL WATER AUTHORITY. AND ZAMBEZI WATERCOURSE COMMISSION

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AETS AETS specialises in technical advice and assistance assignments, conducted in the context of international projects financed by multilateral lending organisations in the infrastructure and energy sector. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 33 5 59 72 4323 Website: www.aets-consultants.com

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Oxford Business Group

Air Tractor Europe, S.L.

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Philips Lighting

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Renewables in Africa

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Sanlam Alternative Investments

Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Savfuel Petroleum Limited

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Shakti Pumps (India) LTD.

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Crossflow Energy Company Development Bank of Southern Africa Emellord Associates Ltd Energy Exemplar European Investment Bank

SMA Sunbelt Energy GmbH SOLHO Suez Group SupPlant Tata Projects LTD

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Zhejiang Chint Electrics., Ltd

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Air Tractor Europe, S.L. Air Tractor Europe S.L. is the exclusive dealer of Air Tractor Inc. for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. We supply aircrafts, spare parts, pilot and mechanical training and all technology for aerial firefighting and agricultural services. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 34667102184 Website: www.airtractoreurope.com ANDRITZ ANDRITZ is a globally leading supplier of plants, equipment, and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper, the metalworking and steel industries. The publicly listed technology Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria and operates more than 250 sites in over 40 countries. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 43 (316) 6902 3020 Website: www.andritz.com ASP-GC Europe AB Our company has a revolutionary, totally organic, bonding mass. We work mainly in the five following areas: building sustainable roads cheaper and faster; making unusable land cultivable and stopping desertification; low cost housing projects; security planning in disaster areas and creating jobs for locals.

Averda Averda is one of the largest providers of city cleaning services and end-to-end waste management solutions in the Middle East and Africa. Averda is proud to serve over 24,000,000 people around the world ensuring they wake up to a clean city, every day. We partner with communities and our clients to deliver sustainable solutions for managing waste aligned to our vision of a cleaner world, better lives. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 44 (0)207 5817100 Website: www.averda.com Bloomberg New Energy Finance The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) is a DFID (UK Aid) supported programme working to provide long-term solutions to water issues that affect the lives of the poor in Southern Africa. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 44 7482282118 Website: https://about.bnef.com BlueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré) BlueSolutions (Groupe Bolloré) provides storage solutions using its own lithium metal polymer batteries with a high level of performances and security thanks to a full solid technology not sensitive to hot external temperature. More than 6MWh operational Off-grid or On-Grid installations in Africa. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 33 146964086 Website: www.blue-solutions.com

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PARTICIPANTS PROFILES CRBC China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), with more than 67 branches and offices in over 50 countries and regions in Asia, Africa, Europe and America, mainly focuses on contracting of projects such as roads, bridges, ports, railways, airports, tunnels, water engineering projects. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 212 682021869 Website: www.crbc.com/site/crbcEN/index.html CRIDF (Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility) The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) is a DFID (UK Aid) supported programme working to provide long-term solutions to water issues that affect the lives of the poor in Southern Africa. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 27123640720 Website: www.cridf.net Crossflow Energy Company Crossflow Energy is a UK based developer of small/medium scale Integrated Energy Solutions (‘IES’) for deployment in off and weak grid locations. These IES systems, include wind, solar pv and storage, ensure reliable power supplies in remote locations at very competitive prices. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 44 7976 930102 Website: www.crossflowenergy.co.uk

Development Bank of Southern Africa The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is a leading African development finance institution that promotes economic and social development, growth and regional integration through infrastructure finance and development. The DBSA plays a catalytic role in delivering infrastructure in the transport, energy, water and ICT sectors, with a secondary focus on health and education. It operates across the infrastructure value chain offering an integrated suite of solutions that includes planning, project preparation, finance, building, delivery and maintenance. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 11 273133716 Website: [email protected] Emellord Associates Ltd Emellord Associates Limited is an independent, privately held company specializing in professional consultancy services in the fields of urban planning, environment, health and safety. Our services are available to both the public and private sectors. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 233302797157 Energy Exemplar Energy Exemplar® is the market leader in the technology of optimisation-based energy market modelling. Our PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model is used by ISOs, regulators, generation & transmission companies, gas producers, energy traders and consultants. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 27118815517 Website: www.energyexemplar.com

European Investment Bank The European Investment Bank is the largest multilateral provider of climate financing in the world promoting environmental projects in the EU and beyond. In 2017, the EIB financed EUR 16.7 billion in projects for the natural and human environment. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 352 4379 53342 Website: www.eib.org GECI ESPANOLA, S.A. GECI Group is an engineering solutions provider with 30 years of experience. Our key divisions: CNS/ATM, airports, aircraft maintenance, avionics, aviation chemicals, meteorology, calibration, energy, electronics and communication, defense and security, and outsourcing for manufacturing industry. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 34 956855957 Website: www.geciweb.com Genesis Energy Holdings Genesis Energy “Genesis” is a market leading energy group with integrated operations across the industry valuechain of oil, gas and power in Africa. The company provides innovative and high quality technical services and solutions that meet every need associated with production, transmission and distribution of electric power. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 44 203 786 7020 Website: www.genesisenergygroup.net GreenArava LTD GreenArava has a unique approach to agriculture. Growing and exporting from its farms, GreenArava provides complete agri-business solutions - from inception to production to marketing - and integrates host communities to ensure sustainability. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 254 722 509 393 Website: www.greenarava.com

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Jenaan Investment LLC We are creating food security and green shoots wherever we reach. Transforming unproductive land into productive agriculture areas and creating new culture (no agriculture, no culture). Email: [email protected] Tel: + 971 2 445 5999 / + 971 2 4094905 Website: www.jenaan.com Lindsay Corporation Lindsay Corporation (NYSE:LNN) is the single-source expert for developing largescale irrigation solutions for agriculture. Our proprietary portfolio of products and services can be customized to create fully integrated irrigation solutions to meet any grower’s requirements. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 31 6 46 820 744 Website: www.lindsay.com MAN Enterprise MAN Enterprise is an international leader in the construction industry. Our diverse portfolio encompasses a wide range of large-scale developments in the sectors of infrastructure, recreation, hospitality, education, residential, commercial, and industrial. We currently have projects in several locations in the MEA region. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 9611215111 Website: www.manenterprise.com Masen Masen is the group responsible for managing renewable energy in Morocco. It leads development programmes of integrated projects aimed at creating an additional 3,000 MW of clean electricity generation capacity by 2020 and a further 6,000 MW by 2030. The goal is to secure 52% of the country’s energy mix from renewable sources by 2030. Its constant concern for protecting the environment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions underpins Masen’s entire approach. Website: www.masen.ma

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PARTICIPANTS PROFILES Ministry of Water Resources, Somaliland Somaliland is categorized as semi-arid land and is situated in a natural disaster prone region and is regularly faced with droughts, floods and water points conflict driven emergencies. The Ministry of Water Development is responsible for water security. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 252634259214 Nespresso Nespresso, the reference in portioned coffee, works with more than 75,000 farmers through its AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program to embed sustainability practices on farms and the surrounding landscapes, ensuring a sustainable supply of high quality coffee and improving livelihoods of farmers and their communities. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 41 21 796 9495 Website: www.nestle-nespresso.com Olam International Olam is a global agri-business operating from seed to shelf in 70 countries, supplying food and industrial raw materials to over 23,000 customers and leading in many products including cocoa, coffee, cashew, rice and cotton. We are reimagining global agriculture for prosperous farmers and farming systems, regenerate the living world and build thriving communities. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 225 21218989 Website: www.olamgroup.com Oxford Business Group Oxford Business Group (OBG) is a global publishing, research and consultancy firm, which publishes economic intelligence on the markets of the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 212(0) 522 27 88 94 Website: https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/

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Partners in Performance We work with your team to achieve big, rapid, sustainable results. Our practical methods and tools can be adapted to fit any business. They unleash the potential of entire organisations and the people within them. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 27 11 463 0903 Website: pip.global Philips Lighting Philips Lighting, with 32,000 employees in over 70 countries is the world leader in lighting products, systems and services. We leverage the Internet of Things to deliver innovations that unlock business value and transform lives. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 212522790205 Website: www.lighting.philips.com Renewables in Africa Renewables in Africa: Clean Energy engineering consultancy serving developers and investors, and a media platform for raising awareness. Our vision is to transform Africa and Africans lives by leveraging the Power of Renewable Energy. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 44 7910947735 Website: www.renewablesinafrica.com Sanlam Alternative Investments Sanlam Alternative Investments, a division of Sanlam Investments, aims to attract foreign and local long-term investors destined to benefit from the Africa rising narrative. Our alternative investments capability includes private market credit, real estate, infrastructure , agriinvestment, infrastructure, private equity and venture capital. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 219502712 Website: www.sanlam.com

Savfuel Petroleum Limited Savfuel Petroleum Limited (SPL) is a rapidly growing Ghanaian fuel logistics and consulting company principally engaged in the distribution of fuel, and related products and services nationwide. Currently operating out of Accra and Tema. Our success is driven by our dedicated team, by operating responsibly, executing with excellence, applying innovative skills and capturing new opportunities. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 233 2466 25622 Website: www.savfuelpetroleum.com SGB-SMIT SGB-SMIT is one of the world’s leading transformer manufacturers with 6 factories worldwide. Its portfolio covers the complete range of distribution transformers (oil and cast resin), medium power transformers up the large power transformers as well as shunt reactors. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 49 1737676798 Website: www.sgb-smit.com Shakti Pumps (India) LTD. Shakti Pumps, manufactures stainless steel submersible pumps, energy saving submersible motors, vertical multistage centrifugal pumps, pressure booster, self-priming, end suction, open well and solar pumps in India. Shakti has been catering to domestic as well as international markets with a notable reach of more than 100 countries. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 917292410500 Website: www.shaktipumps.com

SkyPower Global SkyPower is the largest and one of the most successful developers and owners of utilityscale solar energy projects in the world. The experienced and accomplished SkyPower team has built, assembled and acquired an extensive pipeline of over 25 GW worldwide, 9 GW of which were recently announced in bilateral agreements, and other contract awards, to be built in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia over the next five years. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 1 416 548 5989 Website: www.skypower.com SMA Sunbelt Energy GmbH SMA Sunbelt Energy GmbH is a 100% affiliated company of SMA Solar Technology AG with focus on off-grid, hybrid and battery based solar projects. With over 30 years’ experience, SMA Sunbelt Energy GmbH concentrates its business on the world’s Sunbelt regions. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 4915114869528 Website: www.sma.de SOLHO At SOLHO, we have developed an innovative system that uses the sun and the seawater to generate all the streams required to operate a horticultural greenhouse facility, boosting the transitions towards sustainable food provision. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 32489838223 Website: www.solho.eu Suez Group We are more than 90,000 colleagues working together on 5 continents every day towards a single goal: to deliver the best possible service in vital water and waste management for people and our planet. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 33158812627 Website: www.suez.com

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PARTICIPANTS PROFILES SupPlant SupPlant, a leading company in the realm of precision agriculture, helps growers increase their efficiency in the process of irrigation and crop growing. SupPlant applies an “autonomous vehicle” approach for real-time decisions making. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 972 508883884 Website: www.supplant.me Tata Projects LTD Tata Projects is one of India’s fastest growing and most admired infrastructure companies. It has expertise in executing large and complex industrial and urban infrastructure projects. Engineering excellence, supply chain expertise and construction management are its key strengths.

Zhejiang Chint Electrics Ltd CHINT Group, established in July 1984, is one of the leading industrial electrics manufacturers in China. Its product range covers high and low voltage electrical apparatus, power transmission and distribution, meters and instruments, building and construction electrics, auto parts, automation and solar products. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 86 159 6877 9766 Website: http://en.chint.com

Email: [email protected] Tel: + 4066238509 Website: www.tataprojects.com uYilo eMobility Technology Innovation Programme The national uYilo eMobility Technology Innovation Programme of South Africa, established in 2013 operates alongside a mandate towards stimulating and intensifying electric mobility and smart grid technologies for Africa through supporting facilities, expertise and services. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 27 41 504 3608 Website: www.uYilo.org.za Voith Hydro Holding GmbH & Co. KG Voith Hydro is one of the world’s leading industrial partners to hydropower plant operators. As a full-line supplier, the company’s portfolio of products covers the entire life cycle of new and existing large and small hydropower plants. Email: [email protected] Tel: + 49 7321 377 985 Website: www.voith.com

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