The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa has four main objectives:

• To increase the amount of finance going to sustainable infrastructure in Africa from both public and private sources.
• To facilitate greater co-operation between members of the ICA and other important sources of infrastructure finance (such as China, India, Arab partners, the private sector).
• To highlight and help remove policy and technical blockages to progress.
• To increase knowledge of the infrastructure sector in Africa through monitoring and reporting on key trends and development.

The ICA’s activities include:

• The facilitation of collaborative work and donor harmonisation.
• Outreach to non-ICA members.
• Monitoring and focusing on regional infrastructure development.
• Support for complementary initiatives for infrastructure development.
• Development of private sector interest in infrastructure in Africa.
• The promotion of Public-Private Partnerships.
• Sharing of best practice.
• Upstream support for project development.