1. Business Development Working Group Meeting
February 13, 2017

2. Feedback on Power Africa Off-Grid Accelerator Financing ideas
Agenda
Feedback on Power Africa Off-Grid Accelerator Financing ideas
Presentation from TCX: Sustainable energy access: Managing FX Risk in Climate Finance
Update on local bank financing work
Update on PAYGO KPI work
GOGLA AGM update
Sales data collection update
AOB

3. Power Africa Off-Grid Accelerator
A set of ideas developed by McKinsey, for Power Africa, after a consultative process
Implementation is not funded yet; the proposals serve as inputs for other funding mechanisms
Set of 13 solutions

4. TCX: Managing FX risk in climate finance
Presentation
TCX: Managing FX risk in climate finance

5. Local bank financing for off-grid in Kenya and beyond

6. Status update Key themes: Local bank financing – background
At the November Nairobi conference, there was a clear call from members and participants that accessing finance from local banks is a top priority
Several different initiatives are already underway, especially in Kenya
Working group was set up to keep abreast of these different workstreams – two calls have been held so far. If you have not been able to attend and want the notes from these calls, please let Laura know.
First of a planned series of follow-up meetings will be held in Nairobi next week (Wednesday, February 22). If your company would like to attend and has not yet RSVP’d, please let Laura know
Key themes:
Differing views on role of guarantees and other support structures
Need for specific information to provide to banks on the financial performance of our sector
Need for documenting and showcasing of transactions that have already taken place

7. Update on KPI process
The next consultation on the PAYGO KPIs will be at the end of this month
Invitation and materials to follow
Planned next steps include a soft launch among investors and donors; potentially piloting in Tanzania with WB funds (to be confirmed)

8. GOGLA AGM

9. GOGLA Annual General Meeting
Dates confirmed: May 23 and May 24 in Paris, potential side events on May 22
Agenda is being shaped:
Need for new or updated industry opinions?
Plans for a ‘market insights’ afternoon on May 24. Let us know if you have specific themes that you want to have covered!

10. Sales and impact data collection update

11. Sales data status update
Platform officially closed on Feb 11, last-minute replies being accepted until tomorrow (Feb 14). Currently at 49 participants.
Feedback on new platform will be solicited later this week.
Suggestions welcome on how to make participation easier!
On schedule to provide results on updated web platform in May.

12. 5. Update: Sales and impact data collection
Webinar to introduce new platform
1/15/2017
Questionnaire open for answers
2/1/2017
Individual results and public report available
Questionnaire closes
2/24/2017
5/15/2017
2016
Oct
Nov
Dec
2017
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2017
Today
10/15/ /31/2017
109 days
Building the new platform
1/23/ /17/2017
26 days
Questionnaire open
2/26/ /15/2017
Data processing & analysis; building the results platform
79 days

13. 6. Any other business? Questions?