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The initiative of the RMCE in regards of mobilising grants and highly concessional financing to build resilience and sustainability in the context of climate change.<\/p>\n
In that regard, please find below Agenda for the Workshop that RMCE will be organising in collaboration with Africa Rise and the Mauritius Bankers Association on Wednesday 24 April 2024.<\/p>\n
10 00 a.m. \u2013 11 10 a.m.
\nSession 1: The EU Global Gateway And EFSD(+)<\/p>\n
Opening Remarks EU Delegation<\/strong> Opening Remarks Africa RISE<\/strong> Opening Remarks EU DG INTPA<\/strong> \u201cChallenges of (M)SME Financing in Africa\u201d<\/strong> \u201cThe European Fund for Sustainable Development (Plus) as a Catalyst for Economic Growth in Africa\u201d<\/strong> Overview of relevant EFSD+ financing programs of European DFIs for banks and<\/strong> The EDFI MSME Platform as a novel tool for risk sharing<\/strong> MSME financing with FMO\u2019s NASIRA(+) Program \u2013 Experience from Rwanda<\/strong> Hedging and local currency financing with The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX)<\/strong> Experience and conditions for local currency finance.<\/strong> [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] EFSD(+) Workshop for Bankers and MFI Practitioners in Madagascar, Mauritius, and Rwanda The initiative of the RMCE in regards of mobilising grants and highly concessional financing to build resilience and sustainability in the context of climate change. In that regard, please find below Agenda for the Workshop that RMCE will be organising in collaboration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-476","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmce.govmu.org\/rmce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby H.E. Oskar Benedikt, EU Ambassador to Mauritius<\/p>\n
\nby Manisha Dookhony, Economics and Markets Reform Expert at Africa RISE<\/p>\n
\nby EU Directorate General International Partnerships (tbd)<\/p>\n
\nKeynote by Daniel Essoo, CEO of Mauritius Bankers Association<\/p>\n
\nDiscussion moderated by Africa RISE
\n11:10 AM – 11:30 AM
\nBreak
\n11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
\nSession 2: Boosting SME Finance With EFSD(+) Guarantees<\/p>\n
\nMFIs in Madagascar, Mauritius, and Rwanda<\/strong>
\nPresentation by Bennet Niemann, Financing Instruments Consultant at Africa RISE<\/p>\n
\nDeep-Dive by William Poole, Guarantee and Syndications Manager at EDFI Management Company<\/p>\n
\nPanel talk and discussion moderated by Africa RISE
\nIlayda Atalay, NASIRA Structured Finance Officer at FMO,
\nChristian Abidjuru, Head of Business Banking at I&M Bank Rwanda
\n01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
\nBreak
\n02:00 PM – 03:30 PM
\nSession 3: Strengthening Local Currency Markets With EFSD(+)
\nOpportunities in local currency financing across Africa<\/strong>
\nKeynote by Timothy Nuy, CEO of Fin, a pan-African neobank<\/p>\n
\nDeep-Dive by Demba Tandia, Vice President for SSA at TCX<\/p>\n
\nDiscussion moderated by David Weiss, Financing Instruments Expert at Africa RISE[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"