Founding Continental Edition
NPMTI Africa Continental Delivery & Transformation Summit 2027
Kigali, Rwanda · 20–22 October 2027
Three days for the leaders who decide how Africa's institutions deliver: governments, development finance, banks, infrastructure, technology, universities and the people who run their programmes. One question runs through all three days: how do Africa's institutions consistently turn strategy, capital and projects into measurable value?
Why this Summit
Across the continent, institutions are carrying more projects, more capital and more public expectation than at any time before. Plans and financing exist. What decides the result is the capability of institutions to govern, coordinate and finish the work. That is now a leadership question, and it deserves a continental forum of its own.
Delivery capability is built country by country and sector by sector. NPMTI's work starts in national forums and institutional engagements, where evidence is gathered close to the work. The Continental Summit brings that evidence together, so that each country can learn from the others.
Kigali is one of Africa's leading convening cities: second in Africa for international association meetings in the 2024 ICCA rankings, according to the Rwanda Convention Bureau. A purpose-built convention centre with an executive hotel next door, direct flights across the continent and visa on arrival for every nationality make it straightforward for institutions from every region to meet.
The build-up
The Summit is not announced in isolation. It is the continental culmination of a year of national forums, executive masterclasses, institutional diagnostics, regional dialogue and research. Each step produces evidence that the next one uses.
National forums where institutions examine how they deliver. Cameroon opens the series: Douala (1 December 2026), Yaoundé (10 December 2026) and Buea (22 January 2027).
Executive teams work on their own institution's delivery system. First cohort: Douala, 17–19 March 2027.
Capability baselines with participating institutions. Results belong to each institution; only aggregated, anonymised and consented findings feed the research.
The first national findings on institutional delivery capability in Cameroon, presented in Yaoundé.
Regional dialogues as country programmes open beyond Cameroon. Locations are announced as host partners confirm.
The Africa Delivery & Transformation Outlook brings together validated research, forum evidence, survey findings and expert contributions.
The Founding Continental Edition: Forum, Congress and Executive Masterclass.
The Outlook is to be launched in Kigali, and the Kigali Delivery Action Agenda will carry institutional commitments into the 2028 national and regional forums.
Cameroon national forums, 2026–27
Kigali, Continental Summit, 20–22 October 2027
Regional forums and further country programmes: announced as hosts confirm
The Summit by design
We publish the format, not forecasts. Attendance and participation figures appear here only once they are real.
days, each a distinct format: a plenary forum, a sector congress and an executive masterclass
sector tracks, each with closed roundtables and institutional case clinics
planned working languages, English and French
continental research report, to be launched at the Summit
Three-day architecture
Three days, three different jobs. The programme is being developed with partners; sessions and speakers are published here as they are confirmed.
Wednesday 20 October 2027
All registered delegates. The reception is by invitation.
Thursday 21 October 2027
Open tracks for all delegates. Roundtables, councils and clinics by invitation or delegation.
Friday 22 October 2027
Masterclass places are registered separately. The closing session is open to all delegates.
The detailed programme, with times and rooms, is published here as sessions are confirmed.
Day two · Sector tracks
How public investment programmes are planned, governed, monitored and finished, and how delivery units earn their results.
Large capital projects in transport, power, water and industry: governance, contracting, risk and value over the life of the asset.
Banks, investors and development finance on how capital follows delivery capability, and how portfolios are supervised for results.
Digital public infrastructure, data and AI programmes: what it takes to deliver them and to govern them responsibly.
The offices and boards that decide what gets funded, stopped or accelerated, and the evidence they need to decide well.
Building the next generation of project leaders: universities, professional bodies, employers and the Campus PMO™ model.
Research flagship
Continental Research & Practice Report · to be launched at the Summit
The Outlook is the Summit's written record: a continental synthesis of what institutions are learning about delivery. It draws on validated research, NPMTI forum evidence, institutional diagnostics (aggregated, anonymised and with consent), survey findings and expert contributions.
Every finding in the Outlook carries its source class. We do not publish figures we have not verified.
Every finding is labelled by source
Project Legacy · To be launched at the Summit
Africa has delivered projects that changed how people live, trade and govern. Too few have a record of what endured, or of the people who made it endure. The Founding Continental Edition will begin that record, and recognise the people who made these projects last.
The value sequence
The public record of what was delivered, what value resulted and what endured. Every project recognised at the Summit enters it with a summary of its evidence.
Entries are decided by independent review of the evidence. No fee, sponsorship, membership or attendance has any bearing on an entry.
A curated collection of projects, from every sector and region, whose significant impact has been sustained for at least five years after completion. The inaugural selection is to be presented at Kigali, and the collection is to grow with each edition.
Not a ranking. It shows only projects whose evidence has been verified.
Recognition for the people behind delivery that lasted, in every project role: visionary and initiator, executive sponsor, project director, project manager, PMO and OPM leadership, public value champion, sustainability steward, institutional steward and legacy contributor. The inaugural honourees are to be recognised at Kigali.
Each honour rests on verified contributions, never on membership, attendance or payment.
A research publication: what happened on real programmes, why, and what the next one can learn. The first cases are to be published at Kigali alongside the Outlook.
Each case is published with the written consent of the institutions concerned and of any person named.
One closes, one opens
NPMTI's continental network of founding institutions. Opens on 1 January 2027 and closes at the Summit at the latest.
Projects whose impact has lasted. The inaugural selection is to be presented at the Summit, and the collection is to grow with each edition.
The institutions building Africa's next projects meet the projects that already changed it.
Call for submissions
Institutions, governments, development partners, investors and professional bodies across the continent will be able to submit projects whose significant impact has been sustained for at least five years after completion, together with the people who led them in any of the Hall of Fame roles. Submitting is free and attending the Summit is not a condition. An independent panel, separate from NPMTI's commercial work and its sponsors, is to review the evidence. People submitted by others are contacted and must agree before review; projects under litigation, investigation or unresolved public dispute are deferred; and recognition can be withdrawn if the evidence proves inaccurate. The criteria and the submission window are to be published in 2027.
How value is evidenced
Submissions are reviewed free of charge. A PPVSR™ or any other paid NPMTI service is neither required nor an advantage.
No entry, selection, honour or case can be bought. Partners and sponsors have no say in who is listed or honoured, neither Founding 1000 membership nor attending the Summit plays any part, nothing is published without the consent of the institutions and people named, and there is no ranking.
Projects end. Their knowledge should not disappear.
Who should attend
Speakers & continental faculty
We name a speaker only once they have confirmed in writing and agreed to be published. Until then, this is the composition the programme is being built around:
The first confirmed speakers will be announced here.
Nominate a speaker or expertInstitutional delegations
Delegations let a country or an institution attend with one voice: seated together, briefed together, and with its own working session.
Led by a ministry or a national institution, bringing public and private delivery leaders from one country.
An executive team from one institution, attending the Forum, its sector track and the Masterclass together.
Senior leaders from a group of companies or a sector body, with a closed roundtable of their own.
Universities, research centres and professional bodies contributing to the research programme and the skills track.
Executive Delivery & Transformation Masterclass Series
The Summit connects to the NPMTI Executive Delivery & Transformation Masterclass Series. Executives who want to act on what they hear can continue, at their institution's pace:
Nothing is sold in plenary. Institutions that want a next step book a private meeting with the NPMTI team.
About the Executive Delivery & Transformation Masterclass SeriesContinental partnerships
Partners associate their institution with continental thought leadership, a sector conversation, the research, executive access, country delegations and measurable capability development.
The highest institutional association with the Founding Continental Edition.
Visibility and participation across the Forum, the Congress and the Masterclass.
Convenes one of the six sector tracks, with its roundtable and council.
Supports the Outlook and is credited with the research it funds.
Enables national delegations to attend and to work as a delegation.
Funds places for young leaders, universities and faculty.
Associated with the digital, data and AI conversation.
Travel, accommodation and logistics for delegations.
Carries the Summit and the Outlook to its audiences.
Why partner
Partnership never buys influence over a research finding, an honour, an assessment outcome or a certification.
Designed to bring heads of institutions, ministers, chief executives and development finance into the same rooms for three days.
Delegations met in working sessions rather than at a stand.
Convene the conversation that matters to your sector, with its roundtable and its council.
Your name on research that institutions will use after the Summit, credited for what you funded.
Make it possible for a country or a group of institutions to attend and contribute.
Fund places and programmes that build delivery capability, and see it reported.
Visibility through the national forums, the Outlook launch and the 2028 Action Agenda.
Founding Continental Edition
2027 is the first continental edition of an annual NPMTI Summit. Institutions that take part in it, as partners, delegations, research contributors or delegates, are acknowledged as founding participants of the continental series.
NPMTI Africa™ is an independent initiative. The Summit is not a government programme and carries no public mandate. Any patronage or institutional support is announced only once it has been granted in writing.
Kigali
The proposed venue is one of the continent's most experienced: built for heads-of-state summits, international congresses and multi-track programmes like this one.
Opened in 2016, with an auditorium of about 2,600 seats and 18 meeting venues. It has hosted the African Union summit at which the AfCFTA was signed (2018), the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (2022) and Women Deliver (2023).
The Radisson Blu Hotel & Convention Centre, with 292 rooms, adjoins the venue. Rwanda counted more than 25,000 hotel rooms in 2024, over half of them in Kigali (National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda).
Kigali International Airport is served by RwandAir and several international carriers, with connections to Europe, the Gulf and cities across Africa.
Nationals of every country can obtain a visa on arrival. Nationals of African Union, Commonwealth and Francophonie member states receive a 30-day visa on arrival without a fee.
seats in the KCC auditorium
meeting venues at KCC
rooms in the adjoining hotel
in Africa for international association meetings, ICCA 2024 rankings
Facts from the Kigali Convention Centre, the Rwanda Convention Bureau, the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda and the Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration, checked October 2026. Entry rules change: check migration.gov.rw before travelling.
FAQ
The dates are confirmed: 20–22 October 2027. Kigali Convention Centre is the proposed venue, subject to formal venue confirmation, and is marked confirmed on this page as soon as it is.
Register your interest now and we will write to you as soon as registration opens, with fees and the full programme.
Speakers are named only once they have confirmed in writing. You can nominate a speaker or expert using the form on this page.
Request the Partnership Prospectus. It sets out the categories, benefits, sector rules and terms. Partnerships are agreed in order of written commitment.
Yes. National, institutional, executive and university delegations can register on the delegations page. Delegations sit together and can request a working session.
Nationals of all countries can obtain a visa on arrival in Rwanda, and nationals of African Union, Commonwealth and Francophonie member states receive a 30-day visa on arrival without a fee. Rules change, so check the Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration (migration.gov.rw) before travelling. Registered delegates can request an invitation letter.
English and French are the planned working languages.
The Continental Executive Transformation Masterclass is registered separately and has limited places. It follows the NPMTI Executive Delivery & Transformation Masterclass Series method.
Researchers, institutions and partners can propose evidence, case studies or data through the research programme page. Contributions are credited, and no figure is published without verification.
Media accreditation opens with registration. Journalists can apply now with the media form.
Yes. Kigali also hosts the ICCA Congress, the global meetings-industry congress, from 24 to 27 October 2027, so hotels are likely to be in demand around both events. Recommended hotels and any delegate rates are published when registration opens. Delegates whose work touches events, tourism or association management may wish to stay on for both. NPMTI is not connected with the ICCA Congress.
Four things: the Africa Project Legacy Registry™, the inaugural selection of the Africa Project Legacy 1000™, the inaugural honourees of the Project Stewardship Hall of Fame™ and the first cases of the Africa Project Delivery Casebook™. Projects whose significant impact has lasted at least five years after completion, and the people who led them, can be submitted once the call opens in 2027. Submitting is free, attending is not a condition, nothing can be bought, and nothing is published without consent.
Briefs and downloads
Short, printable briefs for the colleagues who decide whether your institution takes part.
The question, the three days, the six tracks, the Outlook, Project Legacy and how to take part.
For heads of institutions considering a delegation: the four types, what a delegation receives and how to register.
Categories, benefits, sector rules and terms, sent to the named institution that requests it.
The Outlook's scope, evidence standard and method, published before any data is collected.
Each brief carries its edition date on the first page. Briefs are reissued when the programme changes.
Founding Continental Edition · Kigali 2027
Register your interest, bring a delegation or partner with the Founding Continental Edition.
Form
Two minutes. We write to you when registration opens, with fees and the full programme.
Form
Nominate yourself or someone whose work on delivery deserves a continental platform.
Form
For journalists and editors covering the Summit or the Outlook.