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This Executive Note consolidates PIDA outcomes and summarizes what Africa needs to do to capitalize on its momentum and reach its potential — act boldly by investing in its regional infrastructure.

The members of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) seek to facilitate sustainable investment in infrastructure development from both public and private sources. This study has been procured to assess the potential for...

Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA) have been appointed by the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) to undertake an Assessment of Project Preparation Facilities for Africa.

Youtube channel with five playlists featuring African Infrastructure news (on Energy, Transport, Water, ICT and General Infrastructure) from African and international sources.

The annual report analyses overall commitments and disbursement to infrastructure in Africa for 2010 by ICA Members and other sources of finance – also by sectoral and regional distribution.

The ICA has partnered with leading financial information group PEI to produce the African Infrastructure Intelligence Report.

The 2009 Annual Report of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa is available now.

Flagship report of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic to be launched at press conference in South Africa on 12 November.

ICA Annual Meeting takes place in Rome. Read other Africa infrastructure news stories in the June 2009 Newsletter.

The African Union is to dedicate the theme of its 2009 African Union Heads of States and Governments to Infrastructure with 28 January 2009 titled 'Infrastructure Day'.

As growth and development in Africa increase rapidly, investment in infrastructure projects will often be best accomplished through public-private partnership.

The 2007 Annual Report of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa is now available.

The Annual Report can be downloaded in English (PDF, 789KB). The Annual Report Overview can be downloaded in English (PDF, 436KB)

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China, India, and a few Middle Eastern Gulf nations are financing a record number of infrastructure projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, says a new World Bank report.

$12.4 billion was committed to Africa by members of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) in 2007

More than 70 high-level representatives from G8 countries, multilaterals, China, India, Saudi Fund and key African institutions attended the fourth annual senior-level meeting of the ICA from 13th to 14th March 2008 in Tokyo.

Leading development institutions encouraged efforts to meet Africa’s infrastructure needs at a meeting of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) last Friday. The project collaboration meeting was hosted by the European...

A user-guide to donor debt and equity financing for infrastructure has been produced by the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA), and funded by a grant from the Private-Public Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF).

ICA Meeting on Financing Transport for Growth in Africa, Tunis, 3 to 4 December. Financing Transport for Growth, hosted by the African Development Bank, will aim to facilitate private sector investment in transport projects (road, rail, air, maritime and urban), from across the continent, which require financing now and in the medium term

In recognition of the key role played by Regional Economic Communities as key drivers of economic and political integration the G8 group of countries launched a capacity building initiative at their recent summit in Germany.

Risk mitigation instruments can help mobilise commercial debt and private equity when governments or local infrastructure entities lack the creditworthiness or track record to attract finance on their own.