United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development
Ecowas Bank for
Investment and Development
IN COOPERATION WITH THE COMMON FUND FOR
COMMMODITIES (CFC)
UNCTAD/ECOWAS BANK REGIONAL WORKSHOP
Financing biofuels and Jatropha plantation projects with
special emphasis on Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM)
ACCRA - GHANA, 13 –14 NOVEMBER 2006
(on-the-spot translation English/French)
DAY 1 – Monday 13
th
November
9.00 – 10.00
Opening Ceremony
10.00 – 10.20
Coffee Break
10.20 – 10.30
Introduction of Chairman and Chairman’s Remarks:
Mr. Isaac Franklin Jackson - Director at the Crop Services Secretariat
of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana.
10.30 – 11.00
National afforestation/reforestation programme in Ghana and how it
can benefit from the CDM of the Kyoto Protocol.
Speaker: Dr. Victor Agyeman (Director of National Plantations
Development Centre, Ghana)
11.00 – 11.30
Biofuels and perspectives for Africa – learning from the Indian
experience.
Speaker: Mr, Rajan Paradkar (General Manager, ARMACO
Consultants, India)
11.30 – 12.00
Jatropha: A tool to combat climate change and poverty reduction
Speaker: Herr Reinhard Henning (Bagani, Germany)
12.00 – 12.30
Jatropha: A catalyst for economic growth and development in Africa.
Speaker: Onua Amoah (CEO, Anuanom Industrial Bio Products Ltd.,
Ghana)
12.30 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 14.30
Village Empowered Project: Village Bio Energy production as an
integrated CDM project.
Speaker: Mr. M.P. Singh (Earthizenz) & Mrs. Geetika Kalha
(Earthizenz & Village Life Improvement Foundation, India)
14.30 – 15.00
Financial tools to promote the development of Jatropha plantations
and biofuels.
Speaker: Mr Winfred Rijssenbeek (FACT Foundation, The
Netherlands)
United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development
15.00- 15.30
15.30 – 15.50
Ecowas Bank for
Investment and Development
Financing Jatropha plantations up to biofuel production: Roles of
buyers.
Speaker: Mr. P. Krishnan Mohandas (Director, Jason Impex Pvt Ltd.,
India)
Coffee Break
15.50 – 16.00
Introduction of Chairman and Chairman’s Remarks:
Mr. Olle Ostensson, Officer in charge, Commodities Branch, DITC,
UNCTAD, Switzerland
16.00 – 16.30
CDM and its applications – from afforestation & deforestation to all
stages of the value chain bio diesel production.
Speaker: Mr William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu (National Climate
Change Coordinator, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana)
16.30 – 17.00
Clean Development Mechanism in promotion of afforestation &
reforestation activities in Africa.
Speaker: Mr. Wojtek S. Galinski (A/R Programme Officer,
Methodologies Unit, Project Based Mechanisms, UNFCCC,
Germany)
17.00-17.30
Mali Programme for the development of Jatropha plant and biodiesel
with emphasis on CDM.
Speaker: Mr. Olivier Kreiss (President, Eco Carbone, France)
17.30 – 18.00
Video, Mr. Hamata Ag Hantafaye, Directeur Général, Centre national
de l’énergie solaire et des énergies renouvelables (CNESOLER,
Mali)
19.00
Dinner: Hosted by ECOWAS Bank
th
DAY 2 – Tuesday 14 November
9.00 – 9.10
Introduction of Chairman and Chairman’s Remarks:
Hon. Mohamed D. Daramy, Governor of EBID, Minister for
Development and Economic Planning, Sierra Leone.
9.10 – 9.40
Financing opportunities for the development of Jatropha – applying
structured finance approaches on the back of expected future
payment flows.
Speaker: Mr T.B. Tall (Director of Policy, ECOWAS Bank, Togo)
9.40 – 10.10
The role of local banks in financing Jatropha and biofuels projects:
how structure finance based on future payment flows.
Speaker: Mr. Charles Gidi (Senior Manager, Merchant Bank, Ghana)
10.10 – 10.40
The role of SMEs.
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Agbemabiese (Programme Officer, UNEP,
Energy Branch, France)
United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development
10.40 - 11.10
11.10 – 11.30
Ecowas Bank for
Investment and Development
Carbon Credit Trade Finance programme.
Speaker: Dr. Christiane Abou Lehaf (Senior Principal Associate,
African Export-Import Bank, Egypt)
Coffee Break
11.30 - 11.40
Introduction of Chairman and Chairman’s Remarks:
Hon. Yves Madow Nagou, Minister of Agriculture, Breeding and
Fishery, Togo.
11.40 – 12.10
Jatropha Project in Ghana: How to restore vegetation and the
ecosystem along major man-made lakes and ways to raise finance.
Speaker: Mr. Onua Amoah (CEO, Anuanom Industrial Bio Products
Ltd, Ghana)
12.10 - 12.40
Supporting the development of Jatropha farms with micro credits.
Speaker: Dr. John Kofi Agyekumhene (CEO, National Micro Finance
and Loans Office, Ghana)
12.40 – 13.10
Senegal Programme for the development of Jatropha and biodiesel.
Speaker: Mr. Ibrahima Niang (Direction de l’Energie, Senegal)
13.10 – 13.40
Benin Programme for the development of Jatropha and biodiesel.
Speaker: Mr. Raouf Badarou (Direction Générale de l’Energie, Benin)
13.40 – 14.30
LUNCH
15.00 – 17.00
Closing Ceremony
17.00
Cocktail: hosted by Government of Ghana