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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Tim Evans
Senior Director of Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank

QUESTION: What are some of the different interventions that are happening at the World Bank and in collaboration with USAID?

 




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Erik Bethel
United States Representative to the World Bank

QUESTION: Private investors are now working more closely with finance ministers and other government officials to create blended financing mechanisms. What needs to happen to complete these investments and thereby unlock the capital necessary to create sustainability?

 




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Ann Wyman
Director-Client Relations,
AfricInvest

QUESTION 1: "How do we take private sector practical solutions and actually work with the development agencies?"

QUESTION 2: "How do we take private sector practical solutions and actually work with the development agencies?"



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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Etienne Grall
Director Strategy & Operations,
FinDev Canada

QUESTION: We have 4 paths from the UK, three levels from the Dutch, what are Canada's views on how we go forward in the catalytic role that DFIS can play?"




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Karl Hoffman
President and CEO, PS

QUESTION: Private equity investment into emerging markets has always presented a challenge. From an NGO perspective, what are your thoughts on how to engage private investors into global health, education and other sectors?




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Sari Miller
CEO, Sarjay, Inc.

QUESTION: Moving to a more practical approach, you are an excellent example of a private investor making a prudent investments into emerging markets. What motivated you to make these investments, what did you look at in determining whether to invest or not to invest?




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Ikuo Takizawa
Deputy Director General,
Human Development Department, JICA

QUESTION: JICA works in the area of moving private sector capital into Africa, what are JICA's priorities and mechanisms to catalyze more private capital into African markets?




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Pradeep Kakkattil
Director, Program
Partnerships and Fundraising, UNAIDS

QUESTION: Turing to the role of how private sector investment can catalyze innovations in healthcare and other sectors, what steps has UNAIDS taken to catalyze investment and what steps need be taken moving forward?




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Omer Besbes
Associate Professor of Business Decision Risk and Operations, Columbia University

QUESTION: JICA works in the area of moving private sector capital into Africa, what are JICA's priorities and mechanisms to catalyze more private capital into African markets?




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How Can Development Finance Catalyze
Private Sector Investment in Africa?

Jason Grove
Divisional Vice-President,
International Government Affairs, Abbott

QUESTION: Abbot has developed new innovations in diagnostics and access, and you have been working with some companies/institutions and agencies around this table. Please describe some of the projects that are underway and what can and should be done moving forward to catalyze private investment into Africa and other emerging markets.