About the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa
The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) was launched at the G8 Gleneagles Summit in 2005. The inaugural meeting of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) took place in London in October 2005 and was attended by multilateral and bilateral aid donors and leading African organisations.
The ICA’s role is to help improve the lives and economic well-being of Africa’s people through encouraging, supporting and promoting increased investment in infrastructure in Africa, from both public and private sources. The ICA acts as a catalyst – enhancing, accelerating and precipitating the development of Africa’s infrastructure.
The ICA’s work covers:
The ICA also works to help remove some of the technical and policy challenges and barriers to building more infrastructure and to better co-ordinate the activities of its members and other significant sources of infrastructure finance, such as China, India and Arab partners.
The ICA is not a financing agency but it acts as a platform to catalyse donor and private sector financing of infrastructure projects and programmes in Africa.
ICA members include the G8 countries, the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank Group, European Commission, European Investment Bank and the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
The ICA is supported by a small secretariat, which is hosted by the African Development Bank in Tunis, Tunisia. The secretariat is funded by voluntary contributions from some ICA members and is staffed by a combination of permanent staff from the African Development Bank and experts on secondment from ICA member countries.