"Excellent organisation, the event was rich in information and insights about current and future infrastructure developments in Africa and on ways to mitigate the risks and challenges posed by climate change. It is an excellent platform to network with infrastructure professionals, Governments, international financiers or service providers."
Joseph Khoury - Man Enterprise
"This meeting was an opportunity to learn the importance of taking account of climate resilience in infrastructure planning."
Placide Mpan - Ministry of Transport; Republic of the Congo
"This Summit is very instrumental for Africa with regard to future infrastructure and climate change. More particularly for Uganda it highlights the need for integrated and coordinated infrastructure planning for water, energy and roads that is climate resilient."
Hon. Flavia Nabugere Munaaba - Ministry of Water & Environment; Uganda
"I have learned more things and developed my concepts of climate change. Generally the time was very good and satisfactory, lets go influence and do more."
Elias Ashenafi - CCSA of Sendafa Town
"The Two-day Summit was wonderful and had presentations with very rich content. This is due to the efforts of the organisers to secure high-level/calibre speakers and presenters. However, there is need to consider extending the times between presentations so the participants can benefit more from presentations."
Charles Kahuthu - East Africa Chambers of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture (EACCIA) - Conference Chairman
"All sessions were interesting."
Nassirou Ba - UNECA
"The organisation of the Summit was very good, and the content of the Summit was very relevant."
Sonnyboy Shongwe - COMESA
"The Summit was very important and it is timely for African Infrastructure Development to integrate with the current issues of climate change. The time allocations should be improved for the future."
Hon. Motuma Mekasa - Ministry of Water and Energy; Ethiopia
"Good, well organised."
Viginesh Sridharan - KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Sweden
"The Summit was well organised and everything went on smoothly. I recommend that in future, there should be a room for recreation as this will allow participants to relax their minds so that they may concentrate better."
Takudza Makwangudze - Zimbabwe National Water Authority
"The questions were not ideally given enough time during the panel discussions but, the matchmaking meetings have been excellent and were very much appreciated; all-in-all a very fruitful Summit."
Leshoboro Nena - Ministry of Water; Lesotho
"It was a good experience for me and I would like to see more such programmes in the future. Furthermore, it could be much better if you include technical training for attendees/participants of the summit."
Wubishet Getachew - The Motor and Engineering Company of Ethiopia
"Facility is a very good initiative; I hope some outcomes that will be applicable at National level can be achieved."
Jean Mukumwa - Zambia Climate Change Secretarial
"Lots of nice ideas but it is really important to come up with sound action plan, so that we don’t remain talkers but rather become doers."
Georgios Avgerinopoulos - KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Sweden
"Many thanks indeed for all your assistance regarding my attendance at ACRIS II. It was a very useful session for me; your planning and organization really assisted me to make the desired connections for my institution."
Funmi Ogunlesi - Citi Corporate & Investment Banking