High-Level Summit - Financing Africa's Infrastructure Development

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Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, African Development Bank Acting Vice President (right), Ahmadou Abdoulaye Diallo, Director General of the African Solidarity Fund (center) and Algerian Prime Minister Aїmene Benabderrahmane (left), during the 2nd Dakar Financing Summit in Senegal 02.02.2023
1 February 2023
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WHAT: 2nd Dakar Financing Summit For Africa's Infrastructure Development

WHO: The African Union Development Agency and the Government of Senegal

WHEN: 1-3 February 2023

WHERE: Abdou Diouf International Conference Center (CICAD), Diamniadio, Senegal and online (hybrid); Click here to register

African Development Bank Group Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Service Delivery Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, will lead a delegation to the second Summit for Africa's Infrastructure Development, co-organized by The African Union Development Agency and the Government of Senegal.

The summit aims to rally key stakeholders, including African governments, the private sector, development finance institutions, institutional investors, and development partners around the second PIDA Priority Action Plan (PIDA PAP 2). The plan comprises 69 projects in the water, energy, ICT and transport sectors, with an investment value of $160 billion, endorsed by the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government in 2021.

The Summit will feature presidential roundtables, panel discussions and boardroom sessions to discuss specific infrastructure projects.

Senegalese President Macky Sall, the current African Union chairperson, will be joined by several African leaders. They include Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, Niger President Mohamed Bazoum and Faure Gnassingbe, President of Togo.

PIDA is a joint initiative of the African Union Commission, the New Partnership for Africa's Development Planning and Coordination Agency and the African Development Bank, which is PIDA executing agency.

The first Dakar Summit was hosted by President Sall in June 2014.

Click here more information.

Click here to download the summit program.

Contact média :Emeka Anuforo, Département de la communication et des relations extérieures | media@afdb.org

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