Continental Infrastructure Seminar Africa 2013 (CISA_2013)

Continental Infrastructure Seminar

Addis Ababa, 01 October – 4 October 2013

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The Continental Seminar for Infrastructure in Africa was co-hosted by the Delegation of the European Union to the African Union and the African Union Commission at the AUC Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1st to 4th October 2013. The event offered the unique opportunity to bring our African Partners, Financing Institutions, DEVCO Services, all our African EU Delegations and specialized sector organisations together at continental level. The total number of 125 participants mirrored the great appetite created for this event and recognised the important role our partners attribute to the EC as reliable partner for sustainable infrastructure development. The objective of the seminar was to exchange views, information and experience for the development of regional infrastructure in the energy, transport, water and ICT sectors. The seminar also aimed at the screening of regional and continental potential programmes to match EU policies with African needs and priorities to orient the respective future regional/continental infrastructure agendas under the 11th EDF RIPs and PAP.

Agenda

Tuesday, 01 October 2013 - Open Session

14.00 Opening of the Seminar

• Opening remarks, by Gary Quince (Head of Delegation EUD to AUC)

• Opening remarks, by Aboubacar Babamoussa (Director African Union Commission)

• Opening, by Roberto Ridolfi (Devco Director for Sustainable Growth and Development)

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14.30 PIDA – Setting the framework for infrastructure development, by Maurice Niaty-Mouamba (AUC)

15.15 Regional Networks and Sector Governance challenges (I), by David Kamara (Dir. ECOWAS), Abu Sufian Dafalla (Dep. Dir. COMESA) Part 1- Part 2 and Azhari Karim (IGAD)

16.15 Regional Networks and Sector Governance challenges (II), debate

16.45 Capacity Building to roll out PIDA, by Ralph Olayé (AfDB)

17.15 Energy: Implementation the ‘Barroso pledge’: helping to provide access to energy to 500 million people by 2030, by Georgios Pantoulis and Lennart Deridder (Devco C/5)

Wednesday, 02 October 2013 - Open Session

08.30 Added value of blending approach, by Céline Maertens (Devco C/3)

09.15 Project Cycle and Bankability of Infrastructure Projects: by Heike Rüttgers (Director EIB)

10.45 Development Banks approach towards strategic infrastructure development in Africa including PPP, by Ralph Olayé (AfDB), Rima Le Coguic (AFD), Amelie D’Souza (KFW), (SIMEST)

14.00 African priorities for water and sanitation, by Bai Mass Taal (Executive Secretary AMCOW)

15.00 Water - Case Study on Lake Victoria, by Giorgio Ficcarelli (EUD to Kenya)

16.15 Energy – case study, by Georgios Pantoulis and Lennart Deridder (Devco C/5)

17.00 ICT - Case studies on HIPSSA and AfricaConnect, by Vlassios Venner (CNECT D/1)

17.45 Space - Case study on Galileo / EGNOS, by Stefano Scarda (Entr H/3)

Thursday, 03 October 2013

08.30 Transport – Sector governance in focus (introduction by Paolo Cicarelli (Devco C/6)

• Trade facilitation, border posts and axle load control along North-South corridor in Southern Africa, by Mark Pearson (TMSA)

• Axle load control: case studies, lessons learned and guidelines, by Mike Pinard (SSATP)

09.50 Case studies on transport sector governance

• Axle load control at EAC level, by Adam Grodzicki (EUD in Tanzania)

• Ouverture des marchés de transport à la concurrence en Mauritanie, by Michel Laloge (EUD in Mauritania)

• Observatoire des pratiques anormales en Afrique de l’Ouest, by Marc Stalmans (DEVCO C/6)

10.45 Transport – Investment in focus, by John Donovan (TMSA)

11.45 Case study on corridor investment: the Great East Road rehabilitation, by Sigvard Bjork (EUD in Zambia)

14.00 Introduction to the transport working groups under the Transport Side Event, by Paolo Ciccarelli (HoU Devco C/6)

Thursday, 03 October 2013 – Side Event Transport

14.30 Transport working groups session I, introduced by Devco C/6

16.30 Transport working groups session II, introduced by Devco C/6

Friday, 04 October 2013 – Side Event Energy/Transport

08.30 Energy working groups, introduced by Devco C/5

10.45 Conclusions of working groups by region on corridor investment and sector governance by WG presidents

12.00 Official Closure Session, by Gary Quince (HoD EUD to AUC) and Aboubacar Babamoussa (Director African Union Commission)