NEPAD-IPPF is a multi-donor Special Fund hosted by the AfDB, which supports African countries to prepare regional infrastructure projects in energy, transport, ICT and transboundary water. It is currently supported by a number of Donors including Canada, Germany, UK, Spain, Norway and Denmark. Since its inception in 2005, NEPAD-IPPF has completed 55 grants to prepare regional infrastructure projects resulting to 30 projects which have reached financial closure, mobilizing downstream investment of US 24,1 billion, thus, responding directly to Africa’s integration and development efforts.
NEPAD-IPPF was designed specifically to address one of the key constraints to infrastructure development in Africa, the lack of investment-ready projects. It aspires to be the premier project preparation facility on the continent.
MISSION AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
- To increase the number of economically, environmentally, socially and gender responsive regional infrastructure projects prepared and implemented;
- To increase funding for the preparation of bankable regional infrastructure projects;
- To improve interaction among stakeholders in the preparation of regional infrastructure projects.
NEPAD identified infrastructure as one of the main drivers of economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa and understood that the present state of infrastructure, as well as the gap between Africa and most other regions of the world, constituted a serious handicap to the improvement of African economies’ productivity and competitiveness. It is in line with this imperative that, IPPF supports the development of regional and continental infrastructure with grants to African governments, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and African infrastructure-related institutions to prepare high-quality viable transboundary projects in energy, transboundary water resources, transport and ICT.
Some of the ongoing projects include:
- Implementation study for modernization of the trans-Maghreb rail (TRANSPORT)
- Ruzizi IV (ENERGY)
- ECREEE/Ecowas Feasibility study -Women in a changing energy value chain in west Africa (ENERGY)
- North-South Corridor Roads Rehabilitation (TRANSPORT)
- 330KV Nigeria-Benin Interconnector Reinforcement Project (ENERGY)
- Feasibility Studies For The Construction Of The Ubangi River Bridge, The Implementation Of The Missing Links In The Bangui-Kisangani-Bujumbura And Kisangani-Kampala Road Corridors, And For Facilitation Of Transport, Trade And Transit Along Both Corridors (TRANSPORT)
- Route Multinationale KRIBI-CAMPO-BATA (TRANSPORT)
- Central Africa Fibre Optic Backbone Project CAB Gabon (ICT)
- Appui CEEAC Mise en Œuvre du PACOB-PPI (WATER)
- Feasibility Studies For The Construction Of The Ubangi River Bridge, The Implementation Of The Missing Links In The Bangui-Kisangani-Bujumbura And Kisangani-Kampala Road Corridors, And For Facilitation Of Transport, Trade And Transit Along Both Corridors (TRANSPORT)
- INGA-3 (ENERGY)
- Multinational Orange-Sengu River Basin (WATER)
- Feasibility Study Of The Construction And Concession Of Buba Mineral And Commercial Deep Sea Port In Guinea-Bissau (TRANSPORT)
- Kampala-Juba-Addis Djibouti Road Corridor (TRANSPORT)
- Multinational Uganda and Tanzania Roads project (TRANSPORT)
- THE REHABILITATION OF SELECTED ROAD SECTION PHASE II: Detailed Architectural and Engineering Design of Manyovu/Mugina One -Stop Border Post (OSBP) & Preparation of Tender Documents (TRANSPORT)
- Rehabilitation of Selected Road Sections of the Central Corridor in Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi (TRANSPORT)
- Lamu Port development: Transaction advisory services and technical assistance – Phase 1 (TRANSPORT)
- Lake Tanganyika Transport Corridor (TRANSPORT)
- Kolwezi-Solwezi Power Interconnection (ENERGY)
- Feasibility Study Of The Construction Of A Deep Sea Port In The North-West Region Of The Republic Of Guinea (TRANSPORT)
- Public Private Partnership (PPP) Advisory Services for the SONGWE River Basin Development Programme (SRBDP) (WATER)
- Mozambique -Zambia 400KV Power interconnection Project (ENERGY)
- Angololo Water Resources Development Project – Feasibility Studies, Detailed Design, Preparation Of Tender Documents, Esia And Rap (WATER)
For more information visit NEPAD IPPF webiste at http://nepadippf.org
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