Joint Africa-EU Strategy - Reference Group on Infrastructure (JAES-RGI Addis Abeba February 2016)

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This RGI meeting will feed into the next meeting between the African and European Commissions, the "College-to-College" that will take place in April this year and that is clear that infrastructure remains particularly high on the agenda.
The discussion will focus on:

• Developing a clear vision on how to prepare, prioritize, finance and efficiently implement infrastructure projects
• See how we can further promote investments
• Analysing how the use of the blending grants and loans and by catalysing the private sector investment can reinforce our impact
• Identify the needed sectorial reform to improve the investment and business playfield
• The integration of the new challenges like migration, urbanisation, environment…

Agenda

• 1a Agenda RGI
• 1b Energy sector Agenda
• 1c ICT Agenda
• 1d Water Agenda
• 1e Transport Agenda

General topics

• 2a Introduction
• 2b Conclusions

Plenary sessions

• 3a Session 1 Opening PC
• 3b Session 2.1 PIDA-SDM Facility-TA
• 3c Session 2.2 Virtual PIDA Information Centre
• 3d Session 2.3 Presentation PPF network creation 
• 3e Session 2.4 Monitoring of Energy Initiatives AUC
• 3f Session 3 Nexus Regional Dialogue: Providing standards for coherent and integral implementation
• 3g Session 3 Nexus Water, Energy, Food Security by EU Commission
• 3h Session 3 Nexus Water, Energy, Food Security Trade-offs and Strategies
• 3i Session 4 EU energy strategy and monitoring
• 3j Session 5.1 JAES-25.02.2016 presentation Blending
• 3k Session 5.2 The Panaf Programme
• 3l Session 5.3 Indicative list of potentiel actions for PANAF funds

Energy breakout session

• 4a Summary for IRG plenary
• 4b AEEP presentation_sector paper
• 4c EU Technical Assistance Facility (TAF)
• 4d Priorities and progress on JAES Road Map
• 4e Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP)

ICT Breakout session

• 5a The African Internet Exchange System: AXIS
• 5b ICT breakout conclusions

Transport Breakout session

• 6a Summary of transport breakout discussion
• 6b The EGNOS Initiative
• 6c Transport cooperation for an interconnected Africa
• 6d Urban Transport in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 6e 2016 RGI Transport breakout session Conclusions

Water Breakout session

• 7a AU/NEPAD African Networks of Water Centres of Excellence
• 7b Africa EU Water Partnership Project by SIDA
• 7c Nexus Water-Agriculture-Energy
• 7d Water Breakout Session report

8a List of participants

Link to the Africa-EU Partnership