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Summary
The Powering Africa: Summit is a platform to showcase power, trade and infrastructure investment opportunities across the continent, engaging principle decision makers from the American and African public and private sectors to explore how project bankability can be increased.

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President Obama’s Power Africa initiative has helped map the way for project investment, giving a platform to global investment funds and the role they can play in driving forward the development of Africa’s power sector.

This year's Summit will focus on the successes of the private sector including America's private equity houses, sovereign wealth funds and America’s power house family wealth funds.

Following the recent announcement of The African Growth and Opportunity Act, giving sub-Saharan African nations duty-free access to U.S. markets for certain goods, trade relationships will also be an important focus at this year's meeting.

Representatives from the IFC, World Bank, AFDB and BRICS-New Development Bank will discuss successful case studies and the routes to increasing project bankability.

The agenda will also hone in on infrastructure development and new power development opportunities, distributed Power/off grid technologies, Gas to Power projects, technology showcase and small scale projects to watch in Africa.