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PIDA Week 2026, Programme

Nov 16–20, 2026 · Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo · Brazzaville · https://events.auda-nepad.org/pida26/program

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Day 1

Monday, November 16, 2026

2 sessions

09:00 – 17:00
General Registration

Arrivals & Delegation Registration (Pre-Event)

Arrival of delegations and early badge collection. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC 1 speaker
14:00 – 17:00
General Workshop

Closed Technical Meetings (Invitation Only)

Closed preparatory technical meetings of the co-conveners and working groups. Invitation only. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC 1 speaker
Day 2

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

2 sessions

09:00 – 12:30
General Workshop

Technical Training & Preparatory Workshops (Pre-Event)

Training and preparatory workshops for clinics and programme delivery teams. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC 1 speaker
14:00 – 17:00
General Side_event

Pre-Event Site Visits

Technical site visits in and around Brazzaville. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC 1 speaker
Day 3

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

6 sessions

08:00 – 09:00
General Registration

Registration & Badge Collection

Registration and badge collection for all accredited participants. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
09:00 – 10:30
Plenary Opening_ceremony

Official Opening — Republic of Congo, AUC, CEEAC, AUDA-NEPAD

Official opening ceremony of PIDA Week 2026 by the co-conveners. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
11:00 – 12:30
Accelerating Alignment Plenary

Presidential Session: Accelerating Alignment for Delivery

High-level session on accelerating legal, regulatory, institutional, technical, fiscal and planning alignment for regional infrastructure delivery. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
14:00 – 15:30
Accelerating Alignment Roundtable_discussion

Ministerial Round Table & RECs Regional Portfolio

Ministerial round table with regional economic communities on the regional project portfolio. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
16:00 – 17:30
Water, Sanitation & Resilience Panel_discussion

Water & Sanitation Panel (AU 2026 Priority)

Panel on the AU 2026 theme: assuring sustainable water availability and safe sanitation systems to achieve the goals of Agenda 2063. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
18:00 – 20:00
General Side_event

Bilaterals & Official Reception

Bilateral meetings followed by the official reception hosted by the Republic of Congo. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
Day 4

Thursday, November 19, 2026

5 sessions

09:00 – 10:30
Accelerating Alignment Workshop

Alignment Clinics: Legal, Regulatory, Institutional, Technical

Working clinics locating alignment blockers across the delivery sequence: political, legal, regulatory, fiscal, technical, institutional and operational. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
09:00 – 10:30
Preparation & Bankability Workshop

Preparation & Maturation Clinics

Maturity diagnostics, preparation clinics and links to preparation finance for priority regional projects, with focus on the CEEAC/Central Africa portfolio. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
11:00 – 12:30
Productive Use & Energy Panel_discussion

Productive Use: Corridors, Value Chains & Energy

Corridors, value chains, local content, industrialisation and energy investment that put infrastructure assets to work. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
14:00 – 15:30
Water, Sanitation & Resilience Workshop

Water & Sanitation Workshop

Technical workshop on bankable water access, sanitation, standards alignment and resilience. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
16:00 – 17:30
Preparation & Bankability Roundtable_discussion

Project–DFI–Investor Meetings

Structured meetings between project owners, development finance institutions and investors on preparation and financing needs. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
Day 5

Friday, November 20, 2026

5 sessions

09:00 – 10:30
Plenary Plenary

Clinic & Workshop Conclusions

Presentation of conclusions from the alignment and preparation clinics and thematic workshops. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
11:00 – 12:30
Preparation & Bankability Roundtable_discussion

Partners Round Table — Accelerating Delivery

Round table of partners on commitments to accelerate delivery, formalised without pre-judging amounts. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
14:00 – 15:30
Plenary Closing_ceremony

Adoption of the Brazzaville Roadmap & Closing

Adoption of the Brazzaville Roadmap — an acceleration agenda with clear responsibilities and a follow-up mechanism — followed by the closing ceremony. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
15:30 – 16:00
General Side_event

Joint Press Conference

Joint press conference of the co-conveners. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
16:00 – 18:00
General Side_event

Site Visit: Brazzaville–Kinshasa Road–Rail Bridge

Site visit to the Brazzaville–Kinshasa road–rail bridge — a flagship cross-border PIDA project on the Congo River. Provisional — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee.

Brazzaville — room TBC
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