AIF Market Days is the premier annual event hosted by the Africa Investment Forum, designed to be the epicentre for deal-making across the continent. This flagship event serves as a unique platform where investments in Africa transition from concept to reality. Market Days convenes a diverse range of stakeholders, including project sponsors, investors, development financiers, commercial banks, insurance companies, export credit agencies, heads of government, and business leaders, all with a shared commitment to accelerating Africa’s economic transformation.
Key Highlights of the Market Days:
The core purpose of AIF Market Days is to accelerate the financing and implementation of high-impact projects across Africa by providing an exclusive, purpose-driven platform for:
- Deal Closure: Bringing together project sponsors, investors, and key decision-makers to address bottlenecks, mitigate risks, and close investment deals.
- Investment Matchmaking: Facilitating targeted connections between project sponsors in need of capital and investors seeking bankable opportunities that align with their strategic objectives.
- Fostering Partnerships: Enabling collaborations between governments, the private sector, and development institutions to address Africa’s critical infrastructure and industrial gaps.
- Unlocking Capital for Development: Mobilising investment (equity, guarantees, mezzanine and senior debt, concessional funding) for projects in sectors such as infrastructure, energy, healthcare, industry, agriculture and technology, as they deliver tangible socio-economic benefits to African communities.
- Bankability Acceleration: AIF identifies and vets promising transformational deals for bankability acceleration. We facilitate the deployment of project preparation funding from various sources, including trust funds and bilateral aid agencies, with the single objective to streamline the project bankability process in Africa.
- Networking