The African Improvement Financial institution (AfDB) and the World Financial institution have collectively introduced a groundbreaking initiative that guarantees to reshape Africa’s vitality panorama and speed up inexperienced industrialisation. With the AfDB committing US$18.2 billion and the World Financial institution pledging as much as $40 billion in financing, this formidable endeavour is poised to unlock new pathways for progress, funding, and inexperienced vitality innovation.
These substantial commitments are anticipated to catalyse additional investments from non-public sector stakeholders, together with sovereign wealth funds, non-public fairness corporations, and enterprise capitalists. The objective is to determine a stable monetary basis that allows Africa to harness its renewable vitality potential whereas concurrently fostering financial progress by way of sustainable industrialisation.
Central to the targets of the International African Hydrogen Summit (9 – 11 September 2025, Windhoek, Namibia) is a imaginative and prescient to develop regional synergies amongst African nations by fostering partnerships and collaboration throughout borders, to spice up financial progress, speed up infrastructure improvement, and create strong provide and worth chains. This regional integration is important for overcoming challenges associated to vitality entry, infrastructure gaps, and market inefficiencies.
The dynamic sequel version of the Summit will proceed to drive partnerships for and demanding investments and financing into bankable inexperienced vitality tasks throughout Africa. On the coronary heart of the Summit, mobilising ambition into motion, are the Venture Funding Roundtables, which is able to provide a platform for undertaking builders and world financiers to attach and have interaction in high-level, deal-making discussions. These Roundtables will handle key challenges associated to bankability, danger notion, and regulatory compliance, whereas presenting a curated pipeline of high-potential tasks prepared for funding.
As an lively participant on the inaugural Venture Funding Roundtables in 2024, Benedict Libanda, CEO, Environmental Funding Fund of Namibia (EIF) commented that “One of many strengths is that the Venture Funding Roundtables carry partnerships, and networks, essential for the event of the Hydrogen sector.”
The 2025 Venture Funding Roundtables ‘Name for Tasks’ runs till 31 March 2025 and is inviting inexperienced vitality and industrial undertaking builders from throughout the continent to submit their tasks to evaluate the feasibility from origination by way of to bankability to transaction.
Tasks may be submitted by way of the web portal at https://www.gah2s.com/ .
For undertaking builders, the Roundtables provide entry to traders, tailor-made suggestions on enterprise fashions, and alternatives for collaboration with technical consultants, consultancies, and authorities representatives. For traders, the Roundtables current a novel alternative to realize entry to a various array of vetted tasks and to have interaction with African governments and business leaders shaping the continent’s inexperienced vitality future.
Venture profiles span sectors together with Hydrogen (inc. Electrolysis, Ammonia, Synth Fuels, Methanol), Renewables (inc. Wind, Photo voltaic, Hydro, Geothermal and Biomass), Energy, Infrastructure, Transportation (inc. Street, Rail, Marine, Aviation), Mining, Agriculture, Heavy Trade, Onerous To Abate (inc. Oil, Fuel, Cement, Metal, Iron, Petrochemical), and Mobility.
Investor profiles span Developments Banks, Hedge Funds, Multilaterals Lenders, Pension Funds, Exim Banks, Company Finance and Central Banks.
The International African Hydrogen Summit exemplifies how vital investments in inexperienced vitality infrastructure can unlock Africa’s financial potential, making a extra sustainable, related, and affluent future for tens of millions.
