【Seminar】DFIs: Your Partners for African Development – The 6th Seminar Republic of Botswana：Botswana Development Corporation (BDC)

AFRCO (Association of African Economy and Development) has been periodically providing online seminars on the theme of “Development in Africa with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) as Partners”.

So far, AFRECO has held webinars five times in collaboration with DFIs that are members of the SADC-DFRC.
This time, we are inviting a development bank from Botswana, one of the most politically and economically stable African countries, to participate in the webinar.

We welcome those who are doing business in Africa as a company or an individual, as well as those who are considering to enter the African market in the future.

AFRECO presents online Seminar Series
DFIs: Your Partners for African Development ~The 6th Seminar – Botswana Development Corporation (BDC)~

●Date & Time：
15:30 – 17:00 (Japan Time (JST)) / 08:30 – 10:00 (Central Africa Time(CAT))
July 29, 2021 (Wednesday)

●Language：English

●Platform： Microsoft Teams

●Co-organized by：
Botswana Development Corporation (BDC)

●Supported by：
UNIDO, JETRO, JBIC, JICA, NEXI

●Agenda：

Moderator of Webinar
・Boitshwarelo Lebang-Kgetse – Head Corporate Affairs and Strategy
・Kingsley Thapelo Mmipi, Senior Training Officer, SADC-DFRC
・Tetsuya Fukunaga, Director, AFRECO

Time	Agenda
15:30 – 15:35	A brief introduction of BDC by AFRECO
15:35 – 15:45	General and Brief Explanation about BDC
15:45 – 16:00	Brief presentation of previous projects/programs that BDC financed
16:00 – 16:05	Policies and institutions for COVID-19 of the Republic of Botswana
16:05 – 16:20	Projects/Programmes BDC is planning to implement during the COVID-19 crises and what partnerships should be promoted together with Japan
16:20 – 16:35	Projects/Programmes BDC is planning to implement after the COVID-19 crises and what partnerships should be promoted together with Japan
16:35 – 17:00	Questions and Answers session