Financing Agriculture Forum 2012 March 28-30, 2012 Kampala, Uganda Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Financing Agriculture Forum 2012 March 28-30, 2012 Kampala, Uganda Meeting Agenda 18:30 20:00 Registration: Main Hotel Lobby Dinner: Olympic Swimming Pool Area Wednesday, March 28, 2012 07:30 08:30 08:30 9:15 Registration Welcome by co-hosts: Ahmadou Moustapha Ndiaye, Country Manager, World Bank Fabian Kasi, Managing Director, Centenary Bank Ajai Nair, Program Coordinator, Agrifin World Bank Opening remarks: Mark Cackler, Manager, Agriculture & Rural Development Department, World Bank Carlos Cuevas, Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda 9:15 10:30 Keynote Address: New World of Agriculture and the Opportunities for Finance Speaker: Nancy Barry, President, NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty In follow up on the key note address, panelists from the banking, agribusiness and development sectors debate opportunities and challenges in financing agriculture with a particular focus on small and medium-scale agriculture and agribusiness. Dawuda Hasmukh, Britania Allied Industries Uganda, Ltd., Uganda Roland Gross, GIZ, Germany Wonsik Noh, APRACA, Thailand Jeff Uchanga, Uchumi Supermarkets, Uganda Moderator: Marc Sadler, World Bank 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 2
11:00 13:00 Plenary 1: New Approaches in Reaching Smallholder Farmers Chandula Abeywickrema, Hatton National Bank, Sri Lanka Arijit Dutta, BASIX, India Vasco Nunes, Banco Oportunidade Moçambique Nick Handler, One Acre Fund, Kenya Moderator: Miriam Cherogony, IFAD, AFRICA 13:00 14:30 Stables Restaurant Lunch Guest Presentation: Results from the First Agriculture Finance Market Scoping study in Tanzania, Ian Anderson, Gatsby Foundation Moderator: Maria Pagura, Agrifin World Bank 14:30 16:00 Meera/Sheena Halls Breakout Session 1: Approaches in Targeting Different Client Segments Breakout A: Opportunities and Challenges in Financing Producer Cooperatives Arnold Tijdens, Banque Populaire du Rwanda Mary Achini, Co-operative Bank of Kenya Nate Schaffran, Root Capital, Africa Breakout B: Sheena Hall New Models for Lending to Emerging Commercial Farmers George M. Irungu, Equity Bank, Ltd., Kenya Patrick Mutenda, Zanaco Bank, Zambia Hans Balyamujura, ABSA Bank, South Africa Moderator: Hans Bogaard, Rabo Development Moderator: Robert Ocaya, GIZ 16:00 16:30 16:30 18:00 Coffee Break Plenary 2: Equity Finance for Small Cap Agricultural Businesses Presenter: Andreas Dellevoet, African Enterprise Challenge Fund, Kenya Ian Anderson, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, UK Saleh Usman Gashua, AFRACA Kofi Owusu-Boakye, USAID Moderator: Renate Kloeppinger-Todd, World Bank 18:30 20.30 Infinity Swimming Pool, near lake Cocktail Reception and Dinner 3
Thursday, March 29, 2012 09:00 11:00 Plenary 3: Transaction, Savings and Payment Services for Agricultural Clients Michael Andrade, HDFC Bank, India Hans Balyamujura, ABSA Bank, South Africa Agness Jazza, FMB, Malawi Moderator: John Magnay, Opportunity International 11:00 11:30 11:30 13:00 Meera/Sheena Halls Coffee Breakout Session 2: Short-Term and Long-Term Financial Products Breakout A: Working Capital Solutions for Agricultural Enterprises Wilfredo Maldia, Land Bank of the Philippines Aoua Sawadogo, RCPB, Burkina Faso Abdul Kyanika, Centenary Bank, Uganda Breakout B: Sheena Hall Investment Financing for Agricultural Enterprises Chandula Abeywickrema, Hatton National Bank, Sri Lanka James Mugabi, DFCU Ltd, Uganda Nat Robinson, Juhudi Kilimo, Kenya Moderator: Ajai Nair, Agrifin World Bank Moderator: Lydia Ndirangu, Kenya School of Monetary Studies 13:00 14:00 Stable Restaurant 14:00 16:00 Lunch Plenary 4: Opening Up Access to Finance through Warehouse Receipt Systems Robert Pascal, NMB, Tanzania Michael Andrade, HDFC, India Paul Musoke, Housing Finance Bank, Uganda Mamo Mihretu, IFC, Ethiopia Moderator: Alex Rwego, Uganda Commodity Exchange 16:00 16:30 Coffee 4
16:30 17:30 Plenary 5: What Does It Take To Build A Profitable Agriculture Finance Business Line? Chandula Abeywickrema, Hatton National Bank, Sri Lanka Fabian Kasi, Centenary Bank, Uganda Robert Pascal, NMB, Tanzania Moderators: Michael Marx, FAO 17:30 18:00 18:30 20:30 Marina Restaurant Forum Highlights & Way Forward: Marc Sadler, World Bank, and Ajai Nair, AgriFin World Bank Dinner Friday, March 30, 2012 Field Visit on Warehouse Receipts Operation, Jinja 08:00 10:00 Departure from hotel, travel to Jinja 10:00 11:30 Tour of Agro-Ways Warehouse Facility and presentation on warehouse receipts operation 12:00 13:30 Discussion with Housing Finance Bank and Centenary Bank staff 14:00 15:00 Lunch - Nile River Hotel, Jinja 15:30 16:30 Visit to the source of the Nile 18:00 Arrival back at hotel 19:00 21:00 Dinner - Nyanja Restaurant (Vouchers will be given to use at each one s leisure during the noted hours.) 5