The African Climate Conversation: Financing resilient and adaptable African infrastructure

This podcast is part of The African Climate Conversation, a platform which brings together leading African voices on the climate emergency – to discuss, evaluate and debate the greatest challenge facing the continent.

In this episode, Tshepidi Moremong, Chief Operating Officer of Africa50 speaks to BII’s Head of UK media, Andrew Murray-Watson about financing infrastructure in Africa and perspectives on building adaptation and resilience throughout the continent.  

Tshepidi talks about the cost factor, tools needed to adapt infrastructure, and ensuring existing infrastructure are resilient, including: 

• how bringing together technology and infrastructure can play a key role in adaptation and resilience, and in delivering core infrastructure. 
• the need for African institutional investors to secure more financing from capital toward infrastructure on the continent, as well as the role they need to play in de-risking infrastructure projects and catalysing more capital. 
• the need for African financial institutions to be at the forefront of developing productive assets that can grow their economies and ensure a sustainable future. 

Africa50 is an organisation established by the African Development Bank to help bridge Africa’s infrastructure funding gap by facilitating project development, mobilising public and private sector finance, and investing in infrastructure on the continent.