When & Where: 28–31 October 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Theme: “Africa, The Global Powerhouse of the Future”
Organisers: Parliament for Africa in collaboration with the AU Agenda 2063 Simulation unit, under the leadership of Convener Ambassador Dr Young Piero Omatseye.
🔍 What the Summit Aims to Do
- Bring together former heads of state, AU commissioners, ambassadors, private-sector innovators, cultural-industry leaders and institutional heads to advance public–private partnerships across Africa.
- Sharpen the PPP model as a key mechanism for infrastructure, digital education, energy-transition, tourism and job-creation — aligning with the goals of Agenda 2063.
- Showcase the “Tourism Across Africa Project” (launched World Tourism Day 2025 in Abuja), as part of the wider push to position tourism and heritage as growth drivers.
🛣 Pre-Summit Activities
A 4-week continental expedition will travel from Nigeria through several countries en route to Addis Ababa — crossing Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and finally Ethiopia. This expedition serves as a symbolic bridge between local initiatives and continental partnership.
🎯 Key Agenda Topics
- Scaling infrastructure & PPP investment to close Africa’s infrastructure gaps.
- Mobilising private-sector capital into digital economy, tourism, energy, and regional value-chains.
- Enhancing regulatory frameworks and investment de-risking strategies to make PPPs more bankable.
- Leveraging heritage, culture and creative industries under PPP models to diversify growth beyond extractives.
✅ Why This Summit Matters
- It signals the AU’s intention to push PPPs from policy into operational scale-up: “We are not building projects — we are building Africa.”
- It aligns with Africa’s broader investment theme: infrastructure + digital + manufacturing + tourism = growth and jobs.
- It creates a platform for private-sector and diaspora investors to engage with continental-level commitments.
- It links to major infrastructure and financing instruments (e.g., local PPP pipelines, blended-finance facilities) and helps convert project lists into investment flows.
📌 Participation & Stakeholders
Attendees will include government-ministers, heads of PPP agencies, DFIs, commercial banks, infrastructure developers, private equity funds, civil society and youth/creative-economy representatives.
The event is also expected to launch new project pipelines, promotional partnerships (e.g., tourism, culture), and business-to-business match-making sessions.
🧭 Next Steps for Stakeholders
- Investors should register early and review the summit’s project catalogue once published.
- Governments should prepare pipeline data (e.g., PPP-ready projects) and engage with match-making programmes.
- Diaspora/creative economy actors may explore culture/tourism anchoring opportunities under the Tourism Across Africa platform.
- All participants should track the summit outputs for links to existing infrastructure-finance initiatives and de-risking frameworks.
