One of the ICA’s key objectives is to increase knowledge of the infrastructure sector in Africa through monitoring and reporting on key trends and developments.  The ICA also works to highlight, and help remove, policy and technical blockages to progress.
This section focuses on some of the key issues which can impact – positively or negatively – on the development of Africa’s infrastructure.

Impact of the financial and economic crisis:

How is the global economic situation impacting on levels of investment in Africa’s infrastructure, and how should Africa respond?

Project Preparation: 

Why project preparation is vital, and how the ICA has produced a guide to infrastructure project preparations facilities that are available.

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs): 

PPPs are an essential mechanism to design, build, finance and/or operate infrastructure facilities hitherto provided by the public sector. The ICA has prepared a guide to help the public sector in Africa attract private sector investment.

“Climate Proof” infrastructure:

How Africa will adapt and mitigate externalities of climate change in its infrastructure development schemes?  Taking into account climate variations in the design, the construction and the operation of its infrastructure facilities will add an additional layer of complexity to Africa’s development challenges – and an additional layer of cost, but can Africa afford not to do it?

Infrastructure and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs):

Investment in infrastructure is vital if Africa is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.  Investments in infrastructure will, for example, raise productivity, lessen the time burden of household activities on women and young girls, enable low-cost service delivery and help to integrate Africa into the global economy