Macron New Financial Pact Summit recommends mainstreaming of Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (IIPPs)

The New Financial Pact Summit private sector recommendations called for the mainstreaming of Institutional Investor-Public Partnerships (IIPPs) in its recommendations to mobilize private capital at scale, to close the financing and investment gap in emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs). IIPPs are innovative infrastructure investment partnerships between a government and an institutional investor or investors,…

Unlock our hidden Gems: Costs to Developing Countries of MDBs not democratising investor access to GEMS risk Database

Africa investor’s call to action for Heads of State at Emmanuel Macron’s #NewGlobalFinancingPact #summit2023 in Paris this week:   Democratize investor access to the Global Emerging Markets Risk database (GEMs), which costs Emerging Market and Developing Country (EMDC) borrowers over $15bn each year in extra costs and lost opportunities and to support the GEMs3.0 investor proposal:  The GEMs database,…

Macron Summit Calls for African pension and sovereign wealth fund co-investments through the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB)

The New Financial Pact Summit private sector recommendations called for African collaborative pension fund and sovereign wealth fund investments at scale, through the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank (AfGIIB), to counter the Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDBs) private capital mobilization market failure in Africa. According to the G20, Multilateral Development Banks are supposed to mobilize $10 of…

Support for Green Industrial Cities in Africa announced at Macron New Financial Pact (NFP) Summit

Paris, France/Sandton, South Africa/Vienna, Austria Selected cities will become lighthouse cities in Africa and for the world through the concept development and implementation of a blueprint for African cities becoming Green Industrial Cities. The Just Transition Investor Alliance (JTIA) from South Africa and United Cities – International Centre for Sustainable Cities and Communities (UC) based…

Africa needs to mobilise more NDC investment in 7 years than the world mobilised in the last 20 years

  There is an urgent need for the AfCFTA to co-champion a new investable incentives driven African Green Industrialisation Plan, to attract domestic and global trade related infrastructure and manufacturing investment at scale, that takes full advantage of the AfCFTA, Africa’s globally recognized, revered, competitive strengths, such as our abundant super natural capital (wind, sun,…