Publications
Financial Products User Guide
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).The objective of this guide is to support project sponsors in financing infrastructure projects in Africa. It does this by providing project sponsors detailed information on the types of financial products which might be available to finance their projects,, who can provide them, and the terms and conditions on which they are likely to be provided.
The guide can be downloaded in English (PDF, 505KB)
and French (PDF, 521KB)
Annual Report 2006
The report is in two volumes, with most statistical data contained in
Volume 2.
Annual Report - Volume One (PDF, 1.1MB)
Annual Report - Volume Two (PDF, 546K)
User guide to project preparation
A guide to infrastructure project preparation facilities in Africa has been produced by the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA), and funded by a grant from the Private-Public Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF).
The guide is intended to help project sponsors prepare infrastructure projects by providing, in one place, basic information on the function of facilities designed to help with so called “project preparation activities”, and on how to access technical assistance funding and services.
The guide can be downloaded in French (PDF, 1.2Mb)
and English (PDF, 1.2Mb).
Review of Risk Mitigation Instruments published
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. A review of risk mitigation instruments for infrastructure financing, published by the World Bank and financed by the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), provides a comprehensive guide what types of instruments are available, who provides them, how they might work together, and recent trends and developments. Case studies and in-depth details of products provided by both of multilateral and bilateral agencies are provided.
The report can be downloaded here (PDF 500k)
A short PPIAF publication introducing the report can be accessed here (PDF 1mb)