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Building back stronger: UNECE mobilizes experts, incl. 4IP Infrastructure and Impact Investing two Managing Partner and two members of our #InfrastructureImpactFund‘s #Advisory committee, to better #evaluate #resilience of #infrastructure & #‎publicservices.
UNECE’s work to develop an #evaluationmethodology to #score #infrastructureprojects against #SDGs. At a virtual meeting on 23 March 2020, the UNECE Project Team, established in January 2020, unanimously agreed to integrate most robust #resiliencecriteria into the #Peoplefirst #ProjectImpactAssessmentTool that is being developed.

This new UNECE tool will make it possible to #evaluate & #test the #quality of infrastructure & public services incl #PPPs.
The UNECE-led Project Team consists of over 100 experts, incl. Thibaut Mourgues & Christian Kingombe . They work in 5 sub-teams to define #benchmarks or #evaluationcriteria and a #scoringsystem for #Peoplefirstoutcomes. These are:
1. access & equity
2. #economiceffectiveness
3. environmental sustainability and resilience
4. replicability
5. stakeholder engagement.
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#IIXChapterLusaka, founded by 4IP Infrastructure and Impact Investing Managing Partner Christian Kingombe, is a key part of the The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) National Advisory Board for Impact Investing secretariat driving #Zambia‘s recent recognition as #ChampionGSGII NABII National Advisory Board.

BUILDING RESILIENCE ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME:
Spotlight on #Zambia

Now more than ever, #impactinvesting is needed as a critical #riskmitigation strategy, helping to build more #resilient and healthy communities through the lens of #risk, #return, and #impact. IIX’s Chapters around the world are doing precisely that, helping countries like #Zambia prepare to weather the global crisis.
Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) Chapters are spearheaded by #graduates of IIX Impact Institute, where leaders are equipped to #transformfinance by embracing, #measuring, and #innovating solutions to #risk.

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In this WAPPP, APMG hosted webinar, panelists discuss the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on PPP projects and programs, how to deal with its repercussions, offer lessons learned, and share opportunities that might come out of the pandemic I had the pleasure and honour to be one of the panelists; I tried to explore the fall-out of the crisis on PPPs at various time horizons, considering the turnng point that we are facing.

This presentation was a collaboration between
#WAPPP World Association of PPP Units and APMG. Over 180 participants followed the session.

The presenters were :

David Baxter, International Development Consultant, PPP Navigator
Marc Frilet, Concession and PPP Expert, Frilet Société d’Avocats
Natalia Korchakova-Heeb, Managing Director, SDG.17 Consulting GmbH
Thibaut Mourgues, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 4IP Group Sàrl/LLC
Naresh Bana, F.I.E., M.I.M.A., M.I.P.W.E. Bana, Chair of WAPPP Editorial Board
Michael Dallas : Director APM Group (Host)

To access the slides and recording of the webinar, follow this link.:
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By Haggai Chomba, 22^nd November 2019

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) formally announced the launch of a National Advisory Board for Impact Investment (NABII) in Zambia during the 2019 GSG Impact Summit held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 18-19 November, 2019. The formation of the NABII is a critical step in the development of impact investment in Zambia.

 The NABII Zambia initially started as a Taskforce launched in December, 2018 comprising of highly technical and qualified eminent individuals accomplished in their own rights emanating from the five pillars¹ of the impact investment ecosystem namely: Supply, Demand, Intermediary, Market enabler, and Policy & regulation. Since the launch, the Zambia GSG Taskforce has been working through the membership process of the GSG for almost a year now until this week’s on-boarding to the GSG network thereby becoming a NABII.

The launch of the NABII in Zambia comes at critical time when the country needs more impact capital to achieve the 2030 SDGs and finance its Seven National Development Plan (7NDP). The Africa 2030 plan for reaching the SDG requires a minimum financing of USD 500 billion annually (SDGC Africa, 2019). When extrapolating research data from SDG Centre for Africa, Zambia needs to increase the level of investments in its impact sectors five-fold to USD 5 billion per year in order to achieve the SDGs by 2030. This corresponds to 1000 new investments per year when applying the average historical deal size. This illustrates the significant interventions required within the Zambian Impact investment ecosystem.

The NABII Zambia strategic direction will be governed by the single ultimate objective of ensuring a continued and sustained impact investment that recognises a return to capital while creating both social and environment benefits. The NABII Zambia will be focussing on removing impact investment ecosystem constraints through deepening impact investment awareness, institutional capacity building and improving the quality of the pipeline of impact investment projects in order to support the creation of a private sector driven impact economy in Zambia.

Zambia becomes the second country in Africa to successfully join the GSG network for impact investment. Undoubtedly, this adds momentum to the growth of impact investment in the Africa and will be a powerful force for addressing impact investment challenges identified in the country’s ecosystem context study report. Joining the GSG will not only give impact movement in Zambia international credibility but also allow the country to learn from international impact investment best practices.

About the National Advisory Board for Impact Investment Zambia

The NABII Zambia is an independent, influential private cross-sector driven coalition dedicated to driving more capital to improve lives and the environment. The NABII is a vanguard for impact investment and serves as a platform for connecting vehicles between local and global actors focused on directing private capital to public purpose. NABII’s mission is to mobilise stakeholders and resources to support the creation of a private sector driven impact economy in Zambiia.

About the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment

The GSG is an independent, multisectoral global entity catalysing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit people and the planet. It is present in 33 countries and the EU through National Advisory Boards (NABs) that bring together leaders from the worlds of finance, business and philanthropy to drive the adoption of measurable impact in all investment and business decision-making.

Thibaut Mourgues, 4IP Managing Partner, completed in September a study about infrastructure prioritisation in Timor-Leste. This assignment funded by European Union identified the main areas where Timor-Leste is lagging with regards to the Sustainable Development Goals and proposed an infrastructure prioritization framework.  Timor-Leste has benefited in the recent years of oil revenues that have allowed for partial reconstruction after independence in 2002 but with the depletion of the existing fields, the current Government is feeling the need to make sure public investment is optimized and geared toward economic and social development.  High moment of the field work was a meeting with the Prime Minister, Taur Matan Ruak, together with EU Ambassador Alexandre Leitao.

Senior Investment Manager – Private Infrastructure

Business Department: Private Infrastructure

Location: Geneva, CH or Milano, Italy

4IP Group aims to become a global private markets investment manager, striving to serve both HNWIs, Family Offices, Asset Managers and Institutional investors. We aim to have USD 100 Million in assets under management and around 10 professionals across our 2 offices in respectively Geneva and Milano. We realize potential in private markets by financing and developing great companies and essential infrastructure. We create value in our impact infrastructure investments through active and long-term (10 years) responsible ownership.

What it’s about

• Source direct infrastructure investment opportunities in the Asia, Africa and Latin American regions.
• Manage quantitative and qualitative due diligence on prospective infrastructure investments.
• Support negotiations of transaction documentation
• Oversee and review valuation models, lead the preparation of investment memoranda for, and present opportunities in Investment Committee meetings.
• Manage relationships with key investment stakeholders, counterparties and partners.
• Contribute to client related activities (pitches, update meetings, etc.).
• Co-Lead and mentor a team of junior professionals in the impact investment process.
• Manage various tasks related to product reporting, asset management, market research, internal requests, and marketing efforts.

What we expect

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in the infrastructure market, with a leading (impact) investment firm, sector/industry strategic, investment bank or multilateral development finance institutions (WBG, AfDB, IADB, ADB, EBRD, EIB, AIIB, Africa50, NDB) or bilateral DFI investing in infrastructure projects.
• Principal investment execution experience is highly important.
• Agnostic as to sector experience within infrastructure, although expertise in transportation & logistics, energy, utilities, WASH or Health and Education is attractive. There is already significant depth in the team in the renewables sector.
• Successful and proven investment track record.
• Existing network in the advisory, banking, impact investing, asset management, intermediary community and owners/operators of infrastructure.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Experience in managing deal teams.
• Top academic credentials (Masters/MBA) preferably from top university, with a coursework emphasis on business administration, accounting, finance (including impact investing) and/or economics.

What we offer

• As part of an integrated private markets manager, exposure to different (impact) investment types (direct, secondary, and primary investments) as well as asset classes (private equity, private debt, infrastructure)
• Corporate culture focused on professional development and long-term career opportunities
• Once our Impact Infrastructure Fund is set-up a competitive compensation
• 25 vacation days per year

Website: http://4ipgroup.org/

Careers at 4IP Group: http://4ipgroup.org/4ip-group-team/careers/

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Trade in Services Signaling Conference was held at the Westin Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa on 2 – 3 September 2019. The main objective of the conference was to enable exchange among service providers and negotiators on non-binding indications of market openings, existing or future. Participants were also able to communicate their expectations from each other. The conference was attended by Ministers, chief negotiators and services experts from AU Member States. Representatives from the African private sector also attended the conference. Also in attendance were personnel from the African Union Commission (AUC), services experts from the following RECs Secretariats: ECCAS, EAC and SADC; as well as AU Partner institutions: UNECA, and Afreximbank, and from AU cooperating partners, GIZ and the World Bank. A group of experts from GFA Consultants, including 4IP Group, commissioned by the DTI/AUC, are conducting studies on the five priority services sectors as background for the negotiations. The first session covered presentations on the business and communication sectors. On day two
AGENDA ITEM 8: Presentations on sector studies – financial, transport and tourism services were done. The transport services study was presented by Dr Christian Kingombe, 4IP Group Managing Partner. He mentioned that typical issues affecting trade in the transport sector are market entry conditions and conditions on operations. These are specifically measures affecting competition, administrative procedures and regulatory transparency. Fewer than half of the current African WTO Member States (17) have made commitments in at least one mode of transport. The main issues of concern are market access, national treatment and the Most Favored Nation principle. The presentation highlighted that, in line with the AUC Agenda 2063 vision for Africa and the vision of the AU Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), the long term transport vision for Africa should provide sustainable, reliable, modern, efficient, cost effective and fully integrated transport infrastructure and freight and passenger transport services that support continental and regional integration, and meet future transport demand and support African business through easy and seamless logistics systems.

Christian Kingombe will be presenting his AUC study at the forthcoming WTO Public Forum on the 9th of October from 8.30-10 a.m. Followers and clients of 4IP Group are welcome to register their participation should they wish to engage with 4IP Group on these transport and logistics services issues.