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Economic
Commission for Africa
Expert Group Meeting
Innovative financing mechanisms for renewable energy
projects in North Africa
October 3-5,
2012
Tunis, Tunisia
October Wednesday 3, 2012
08h30 – 09h30 Registration of the participants
09h30 – 10h30 Opening and
introduction
·
Opening
speechs
·
Introduction: presentation
of the objectives and the Expert group meeting programme (Mrs. Marieme Bekaye,
ECA-NA)
10h30 – 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 – 13h00 Session 1: Understanding financial issues: needs
analysis, typology and financing constraints
·
Outcomes of the Report (M.
Rafiq Missaoui & M. Sami Marrouki, consultants)
·
Funding for Research &
Development in the renewable energy sector ( M. Badr Ikken, Director General,
IRESEN-Morocco)
·
Mediterranean Solar Plan
(MSP) Project-Pipeline in Mediterranean Partner Countries and analysis of
financing strategies (M. Martin Ehrlich,
Expert Finance, PWMSP-UE)
·
Pro poor public-private partnerships for renewable energy: the UNECE
experience and model (M. Gianluca Sambucini, Sustainable Energy Division,
UNECE)
·
Discussions
13h00 – 14h30 Lunch
break
14h30-18h00 Session 2: Overview
of existing funding opportunities
·
Introduction of the main findings of the Study (M. Rafiq Missaoui &
M. Sami Marrouki, consultants)
·
The role of innovative financing in renewable energy (M. Jaime Reis Conde,
Chief Unit “Financial Instruments”- EuropeAid- European Commission)
·
ADB experience regarding financing mechanisms for renewable energies in
North Africa (Ms. Hela Cheikhrouhou, Director of the Energy, Environment and Climate
Change department-ADB)
·
Discussions
16h00- 16h30 Coffee break
·
Lessons learned from the
use of CDM in North Africa and the usability of NAMAs (Ms. Fanny Missfeldt-Ringius,
Senior Energy Economist, Middle East and North Africa, Energy Department, World
Bank)
·
Rio+20
for Scaling up Financing for Renewable Energy (M. Wei Liu, UNDESA)
·
Discussions
October Thursday 4, 2012
09h00 – 10h30 Session 3: How
to promote the involvement of the private sector in financing RE investments?
·
Presentation of the results of the study: the problem of private funding
and potential solutions (M. Rafiq Missaoui & M. Sami Marrouki, consultants).
·
Private sector involvement in
financing renewable energy and PPP initiatives (M. Sam Cho, GPAD/ ECA)
·
Renewable Energy In
Egypt: Attractive Investment Opportunities (M. Khaled Fekry, NREA Egypt)
·
Discussions
10h30 – 11h00 Coffee Break
11h00-
13h00 Session
3 (follow-up) : Public-private dialogue
·
Identifying the main
barriers to the involvement of the private sector and the conditions / reforms
required to establish effective partnerships (2 working groups)
·
Feed-back of the working group
·
Discussions
13h00 – 14h30 Lunch break
14h30 –16h00 Session 4: Bank financing of renewable energy projects
·
Banking issues: overview and constraints (M. Rafiq Missaoui &
M. Sami Marrouki, consultants)
·
Contribution of the
Moroccan banking sector to the financing of renewable energy projects. (M.
Youssef Rouissi, Chairman of AttijariwafaBank, Investment bank, Morocco)
·
The experience of Attijari
Bank through PROSOL program (M. Moez Terzi, Head of Corporate Banking, Attijari
Bank of Tunisia)
·
Discussions
16h00
- 16h30 Coffee break
16h30 - 18h00 Session 5: International Benchmark and proposals
regarding innovative financing mechanisms
·
Presentation of the
Compendium of best practice (M. Rafiq Missaoui & M. Sami Marrouki, consultants)
·
Lessons learned from
policies and financial mechanisms to support the development of renewable
energies in the European Union countries and their impact on small projects (Dr.
Dörte Fouquet, EREF, Brussels)
·
UNEP’s experience with end
user finance programme: case study of Tunisia and Morocco (Ms. Myriem Touhami,
UNEP)
·
Discussions
October Friday 5, 2012
9h30 - 11h30 Session 6: Review of the recommendations through ECA’s
knowledge sharing platform.
·
ECA Electronic platform for knowledge management: A tool for Member
States in order to capitalize and share their knowledge (M. Talla Kebe, KM
team, ECA)
·
Discussions
11h30 – 12h00
Coffee break
12h00 - 13h00 Closing session
·
Discussion and approval of
the main recommendations
·
Closing of the meeting
13h00 – 14h30 Lunch
break
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