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Company Strategy on Promoting Sustainable Special Economic
Zones (SSEZ)
International Conference
Sustainable Industrial Areas
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 8 - 10 April 2019
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The SYSTEMIQ Africa SSEZ team
Source: SYSTEMIQ team
Gail Klintworth
SSEZ- Director
Duties: Responsible for SSEZ platform strategy and senior international stakeholder engagementBackground: Former Unilever Global CSO and CEO South Africa
Robbie Marwick
SSEZ- Operations Director
Duties: Responsible for overall execution, operations and zone development across geographies (Nigeria, Kenya & Ethiopia) Background: Strategic Advisory, Human rights, Small holder farming economics
Ade Okuwoga
SSEZ- Country Manager (ETH)
Duties: Responsible for Ethiopia zone commercial development and in country project managementBackground: Strategic Advisory (Energy & Power infrastructure), Sustainable Energy
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Today’s Speakers
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SYSTEMIQ is an advisory and investment company working with multiple stakeholders to build and scale commercially viable solutions that will drive the delivery of the SDGs
B U I L D I N G C O A LI T I O N S
A D V I S I N G P I O N E E R S
I N C U B A T I N G B U S I N E S S E S
D I R E C T I N VE S T M E N T
S C A L E U P C A P I T A L
We build and advise coalitions
of leaders to drive policy and
industry changes.
We design innovative
business models for
multinationals, governments and
NGOs
We partner to create, launch
and demonstrate commercially
viable and replicable
business models
We invest in disruptive
technologies and deploy flexible
capital as mission-driven
investor.
We attract large-scale capital to
nurture and grow commercially-
viable solutions.
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Our growth model is broken across the world, but Ethiopia has the opportunity to drive the SDGs by sustainable leapfrogging the models that have been historically destructive
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Ethiopia
GDP growth since 2000 (CAGR %)
Source: WorldBank Database
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In theory, there is a $1.1 trillion sustainable business opportunity in Africa, which would create 85 million jobs
Source: Alpha Beta; Business and Sustainable Development Commission Report
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And some businesses are already doing it by optimising for sustainability to drive real economic value – The benefits are not just social and environmental
Source: SYSTEMIQ research; company reports; Pulse: State of Fashion Report (2018)
Drives growth &
innovation - top line
performance
Drives operational
improvements -
bottom line
performance
50% of growth –
sustainable brands
$12bn rev– green
products
80% growth –
In electric vehicles
$1bn in savings –
efficient logistics
£600m in savings –
eco manufacturing
257m ppl reached –
Hygiene stamped rotis
45% improvement
– water usage
$9.8bn in savings
– water and energy
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But, it is extremely difficult to drive this at a global or national scale so we need to develop “brightspots” that deploy these in a geographically defined area, e.g. Sustainable SEZs
Attracting philanthropic and public concessional finance
Partnering to secure baseline volumes
and services
Insuring against demand shortfall…
models yet to be developed for SSEZs
Building coalitions to shape policies and design better
markets
Partnering to share costs of infrastructure,
sourcing/distribution and new circular economy models
Re-aligning value chains around shared metrics &
incentives
Sustainable Economic Zones (SSEZs)
with geographic focus
Source: SYSTEMIQ
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SEZs are one of the key industrialisation drivers around the world and while some have worked, many have been white elephants and/or have failed the environment and people
SEZs account for ~22% of China’s GDP, ~46% of FDI and ~60% of exports
Since 2000, China has invested more than $5 billion in the construction of more than one dozen SEZs across Africa
SEZs are responsible for ~50% of Central America’s exports
Number of countries with SEZs:130
SEZ global export value:$200 billion
Number of SEZs in the world:~5,000
Number of SEZ workers:~100 million
Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City SEZ, Andhra Pradesh, India
Shenzhen SEZ, China
Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), China
Source: SYSTEMIQ
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SSEZs represent the next horizon in industrial development – Moving beyond “do no harm” to using industrialisation to drive positive commercial, social and environmental impact
Export Oriented Zone
Low-Carbon Green Zone
Sustainable Special Economic Zone (SSEZ)
▪ Creating economic
growth
▪ Creating economic
growth
▪ Managing
environmental impact
▪ Creating positive economic
growth
▪ Creating positive social
impact
▪ Creating positive
environmental impact
▪ Creating investable projects
▪ Creating decent jobs
Horizon 1
Horizon 2
Horizon 3
Source: SYSTEMIQ
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In Nigeria, we are working with LADOL Free Zone to develop the world’s first SSEZ, leading the way in delivering the SDGs across Africa through sustainable industrialisation
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SEZs actively drives attainment of the SDGs by mandating sustainable operating principles, supporting inclusive businesses and developing impact orientated synergies
1) Mandating sustainable operating principles
• Circular principles are applied to core facilities and design of base
• SDG policies are mandated for all companies on site to ensure social and
environmental protection
2) Supporting inclusive businesses
• Sectors are targeted that enhance social and environmental outcomes
• Companies are supported to develop sustainable and inclusive supply
chains
3) Developing impact orientated synergies
• Assets and auxiliary businesses are developed to encourage inclusive
business, support social mobility and facilitate resource optimisation
• Improved operational competitiveness through circular design
In practice this means three things
Source: LADOL
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In Nigeria, we are working across eight tenant clusters that drive SDG impact while creating a diversified revenue pool for the LADOL Free Zone
Source: LADOL
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In Nigeria, we have reduced planned power costs by ~80% by developing a combination of sector synergies and renewable energy – transitioning from diesel to LNG to biomass
LNGGenerators
13-15
Biomass
30-40
~4
-80%
Benefits of switching to biomass, price per kWh $c
Source: SYSTEMIQ
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Partnering with P4G we are developing investment into Nigeria and scaling Sustainable SEZs/IPs into Ethiopia & Kenya across three zones
Source: SYSTEMIQ
Phases of SSEZ development & execution
Commercial Development Technical Development Zone Promotion & Investment
Ethiopia
Kenya
• Macro assessment of country/regional
economic drivers and SDG opportunity
• Zone level analysis of competitive advantage,
key sectors to target and potential tenants
• Zone business plan
• Detailed technical masterplan allowing for
infrastructure and capex forecasting and
planning
• Zone level sustainable policy and
procedure mapping
• Zone masterplan
• USD ~235 million zone infrastructure
• USD ~1.5 billion FDI
• ~15,000 FTEs
• Zone execution roadmap including tenant and
funding strategy of zone
• Support with key tenant engagement and
acquisition
• Support with approach and access to funding
• Macro assessment of country/regional
economic drivers and SDG opportunity
• Zone level analysis of competitive advantage,
key sectors to target and potential tenants
• Zone business plan
• Detailed technical masterplan allowing for
infrastructure and capex forecasting and
planning
• Zone level sustainable policy and
procedure mapping
• Zone masterplan
• Zone execution roadmap including tenant and
funding strategy of zone
• Support with key tenant engagement and
acquisition
• Support with approach and access to funding
Current phase
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Some learnings to share from Sustainable Economic Zone development
Source: SYSTEMIQ
Strong leadership is key1 Early anchors required 1
Cracking the investment cycle
2
Circular design with flexibility
3
Asset class is complex2
Find partners that share your sense urgency
3
Stars Shit Happens
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Cracking the investment cycle – creating equity exit through transfer to low risk income bearing bond
Source: SYSTEMIQ
Low Risk
HighRisk
Years
Infrastructure build out →
Tenant acquisition→
High risk equity phase → Low risk coupon phase →
NOTE: Illustrative
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As an anchor to the Ethiopian development strategy, we are working with key stakeholders to drive sustainable solution to increase industrial competitiveness
Who we are working with IPs opportunities to explore1
“Become a lower middle-income country
by 2025-GTP 2
“To be a leading manufacturing hub in Africa and among the leading countries in the globe”
-FGE Ministry of Industry
“To be an innovative and leading eco-industrial parks developer and operator in Africa by 2025”
-IPDC Strategy
Source: SYSTEMIQ
Increase Operational Efficiencies
1
• Explore renewable captive power opportunities to increase consistency and reliability of power
• Introduce water cascading principles to industrial park infrastructure
Capturing additional value
2
• Aggregating plastic waste to feed directly into existing industry (Agro. Textile etc.)
• Utilising bio-waste for power generation/ biogas supply to local communities
Enhancing value chains
3
• Clustering of textile sector services across private and public IPs
• Creating anchor off-taker opportunities for commercial and smallholder farming operations
1 Indicative of current opportunities being explored
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