MN Capital group, the foremost provider of platforms for investment meetings will in two-weeks’ time, host the highly anticipated 3rd annual Botswana Infrastructure and Alternative Investment forum in Gaborone, the capital.
The event, according to a brochure seen by Botswana Guardian today (Thursday), will be hosted under the theme, ‘Unearthing new opportunities in infrastructure as an evolving asset class’. Some of the key thematic areas to be discussed include, evaluating the future of infrastructure in Botswana as a whole, infrastructure value chain creation, government inducement for new infrastructure projects, project financing, due diligence process and presentation. The Forum, which will be held at a leading Gaborone hotel, Avani from the 14 to 15th June 2023, will also allow top local and international speakers to examine infrastructure advancement and environmental social responsibility, look into sub-sectors, unveiling investment opportunities in the country, infrastructure funding among others.
Some of the speakers at the meeting include Olebeng Ngwakwena, Managing Director of Belshane Property group, which is a market leader in the country. Reagon Graig, Chairperson of Ongos Valley. The latter is a multi-disciplinary infrastructure development company ‘with a passion for creating sustainable housing solutions across the African continent’. The company’s expertise stretches across the full range of professional built environment services, placing us in a unique position to deliver large-scale infrastructure projects within the region. Another notable speaker is Dumisani Ntini, founder and CEO of Global Governance group and
Laone Motseonageng, SHEQ Officer, from Afrisafe Botswana.
The upcoming infrastructure meeting comes at a time, when Botswana, a developing country, is experiencing a surge on new projects, both from the public to the private sector across all major sectors of the economy. To get a better picture of how serious the country is on infrastructure development, one needs to look at the current national budget.
According to finance minister, Peggy Seramen, government will continue to devote more resources
to infrastructure development to support sustainable growth and improve livelihoods. “To this end, a development budget of twelve billion, seven hundred and thirty million Pula (P12.73 billion) is being
proposed for implementation of infrastructure development projects,” said the minister when presenting the budget early this year.
In order to address water supply and sanitation challenges across the country, major projects on water and sanitation will continue to be implemented in the 2023/2024 financial year. These include, among
others, rehabilitation of water networks especially areas prone to frequent breakdowns such as Kanye and Molepolole. “To enable the country to be a net exporter of electricity, implementation of projects under the Integrated Resource Plan will continue to be fast-tracked to ensure security of electricity supply. The Integrated Resource Plan encompasses mainly green technology projects geared to addressing, amongst others, the issue of climate change whilst reducing the country’s high electricity import bill. The current target is to raise the contribution of renewable energy in n total power generation from 1 percent to 30 percent by 2030,”announced the minister.
Government has approved the Development Manager Model of project delivery in December 2022 which will be used to implement, among others, road projects, office buildings and staff houses, hospital facilities, schools, storm water drainage, development of the Leather Industry Park as well as the Kasane-Kazungula
Redevelopment projects.
The event, according to a brochure seen by Botswana Guardian today (Thursday), will be hosted under the theme, ‘Unearthing new opportunities in infrastructure as an evolving asset class’. Some of the key thematic areas to be discussed include, evaluating the future of infrastructure in Botswana as a whole, infrastructure value chain creation, government inducement for new infrastructure projects, project financing, due diligence process and presentation. The Forum, which will be held at a leading Gaborone hotel, Avani from the 14 to 15th June 2023, will also allow top local and international speakers to examine infrastructure advancement and environmental social responsibility, look into sub-sectors, unveiling investment opportunities in the country, infrastructure funding among others.
Some of the speakers at the meeting include Olebeng Ngwakwena, Managing Director of Belshane Property group, which is a market leader in the country. Reagon Graig, Chairperson of Ongos Valley. The latter is a multi-disciplinary infrastructure development company ‘with a passion for creating sustainable housing solutions across the African continent’. The company’s expertise stretches across the full range of professional built environment services, placing us in a unique position to deliver large-scale infrastructure projects within the region. Another notable speaker is Dumisani Ntini, founder and CEO of Global Governance group and
Laone Motseonageng, SHEQ Officer, from Afrisafe Botswana.
The upcoming infrastructure meeting comes at a time, when Botswana, a developing country, is experiencing a surge on new projects, both from the public to the private sector across all major sectors of the economy. To get a better picture of how serious the country is on infrastructure development, one needs to look at the current national budget.
According to finance minister, Peggy Seramen, government will continue to devote more resources
to infrastructure development to support sustainable growth and improve livelihoods. “To this end, a development budget of twelve billion, seven hundred and thirty million Pula (P12.73 billion) is being
proposed for implementation of infrastructure development projects,” said the minister when presenting the budget early this year.
In order to address water supply and sanitation challenges across the country, major projects on water and sanitation will continue to be implemented in the 2023/2024 financial year. These include, among
others, rehabilitation of water networks especially areas prone to frequent breakdowns such as Kanye and Molepolole. “To enable the country to be a net exporter of electricity, implementation of projects under the Integrated Resource Plan will continue to be fast-tracked to ensure security of electricity supply. The Integrated Resource Plan encompasses mainly green technology projects geared to addressing, amongst others, the issue of climate change whilst reducing the country’s high electricity import bill. The current target is to raise the contribution of renewable energy in n total power generation from 1 percent to 30 percent by 2030,”announced the minister.
Government has approved the Development Manager Model of project delivery in December 2022 which will be used to implement, among others, road projects, office buildings and staff houses, hospital facilities, schools, storm water drainage, development of the Leather Industry Park as well as the Kasane-Kazungula
Redevelopment projects.
