Addis Ababa, 3 June 2026 (ECA) — Specialists, policymakers, and monetary practitioners from throughout African Island States will collect in Mombasa on 12–13 June 2026 for a high-level workshop to reinforce sovereign credit score scores and unlock entry to sustainable local weather and blue economic system financing.
Collectively organized by the Financial Fee for Africa (ECA) and the African Island States Coordination Committee (AISCC) beneath the theme “Unlocking pathways to resilience: reframing threat and enhancing credit score scores for sustainable financing in African Island States”, the workshopwill present a platform to strengthen capacities in credit standing evaluation, useful resource mobilization, and local weather finance integration. It is going to be organised as a aspect occasion to Our Ocean Conference, scheduled for 16-18 June.
African Island States face a novel mixture of structural constraints, together with small home markets, geographic isolation, and heightened publicity to exterior shocks and local weather dangers. These elements considerably affect sovereign credit score scores. These, in flip, decide the price of borrowing and entry to world capital markets and progressive financing devices equivalent to local weather and blue bonds.
The workshop will handle vital challenges going through collaborating nations, together with restricted entry to reasonably priced long-term financing and the underrepresentation of local weather vulnerability and resilience investments in credit standing assessments. It is going to additionally discover how nations can higher talk their financial and environmental strengths, together with blue economic system property equivalent to marine sources, sustainable tourism, and fisheries, to traders and score companies.
Members will interact in technical periods and peer exchanges protecting key areas equivalent to sovereign score methodologies, integration of local weather resilience into macroeconomic frameworks, enchancment of knowledge programs, and alignment of debt administration and local weather finance methods. The programme may also look at progressive financing instruments, together with sustainability-linked bonds, resilience clauses, and blended finance mechanisms.
The AISCC, which brings collectively 9 African Island States together with the Kingdom of Morocco as a founding associate, performs a vital position in advancing coordinated approaches to local weather resilience, monetary innovation, and sustainable improvement.
By the top of the workshop, members are anticipated to strengthen their understanding of score company methodologies, improve coordination throughout ministries and central banks, and establish sensible pathways to enhance creditworthiness and mobilize sources extra successfully. A set of actionable suggestions and a roadmap for sustained engagement with credit standing companies and traders will likely be developed.
The workshop will convey collectively representatives from Ministries of Finance, Ministries of Atmosphere, Central Banks, and nationwide inventory exchanges from collaborating island states, fostering a whole-of-government strategy to financing resilience and sustainable development.
For additional data, please contact:
Ms. Sonia Essobmadje
Chief, Finance and Home Useful resource Mobilization Part
United Nations Financial Fee for Africa
Electronic mail: sonia.essobmadje@un.org
Issued by:
Communications Part
Financial Fee for Africa
PO Field 3001
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Tel: +251 11 551 5826
E-mail: eca-info@un.org
