•    Keynote Address: “Growing Role of DBSA as Lead Financier in Regional Programmes”

•    Keynote Address: Involvement of BRIC Countries in Sub-Saharan African Projects

•    Keynote Address: Update on the North-South Corridor & Its Cross-Sectoral Implications

•    Overview of Commercial & PPP Project Financing Trends in Africa

•    Panel: Question & Answer Session

Statement: Regional Development Banks can play a positive and catalytic role in ensuring the take-offs of regional Projects and Programmes especially with regard to the development corridors.

Questions: To what extent are the regional development banks succeeding in launching regional initiatives through specific examples? What are the obstacles?

•    Panel: Question and Answer Session

Statement: Considerable funds have been set aside by the South African government for infrastructure development and upgrading in the country.

Questions: Which are the priority projects and how do you view the methodology and timing of their roll-out?

•    Experiential Session 1: Guidelines to Packaging Project Proposals for Submission to Funding Institutions (Banks, DFI’s, Fund Managers)

•    Experiential Session 2: Innovative Financing Methods for Public Private Partnerships (PPP’s)

•    Panel: Question & Answer Session

Statement: Export credit agencies play an important role in promoting the exports of the relevant countries. Political and commercial risk requires mitigation in order to increase the confidence of exporters and investors into our continent.

Questions: What are the parameters of ECA contracts and what are their new products and innovations, for example supplier credit or vendor finance?

•    Keynote Address: ‘Arab Project Funding in Africa’

•    Panel Discussions on:

–         Transport Infrastructure        

–         Agriculture

–         Telecommunications/ICT

–         Mining/Oil & Gas

–         Power/Water & Sanitation

–         Hotels/Commercial Property