What: Unveiling of the results of the Africa Investment Forum Virtual Boardroom Sessions and Press Conference
Who: The African Development Bank Group and Africa Investment Forum founding partners
When: 17 March 2022
18:00 -18:15 GMT: Unveiling of the results of the virtual boardrooms sessions
18:15-18:45 GMT : Press conference
Where: Virtual
The Africa Investment Forum will announce the results of the virtual boardroom sessions on Thursday 17 March. The sessions were to have been held during the Africa Investment Forum Market Days Event in November 2021, which was postponed due to the omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus.
Since Tuesday, investors have been examining more than $50 billion of curated bankable projects in key priority sectors identified in the Africa Investment Forum's 2020 Unified Response to Covid-19 initiative. The sectors include agriculture and agro-processing; education; energy and climate; healthcare; minerals and mining; information and communications technology and telecommunication; and industrialization and trade. Nine of these projects are women-led, with a potential value of $5 billion.
African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina will make a closing presentation and an announcement on Thursday. A press conference will follow with the heads of the Africa Investment Forum founding partner institutions.
Journalists are invited to register for the two successive events and to send their questions in advance using the links below:
17 March
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Launched in 2018, the Africa Investment Forum is a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary platform that advances private and public-private partnership projects to bankability. It also raises capital and accelerates deals to financial closure. The Africa Investment Forum is an initiative of the eight founding partners including the African Development Bank; Africa 50; the Africa Finance Corporation; the Africa Export-Import Bank; the Development Bank of Southern Africa; the Trade and Development Bank; the European Investment Bank; and the Islamic Development Bank.