First Year Results Presented at ICA’s Berlin Meeting - January 2007
24 January 2007
The 3rd Senior Level meeting of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) took place in Berlin from 17 to 18 January 2007. At the outset of the German Presidency of the G8, the meeting was hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The meeting was attended by senior representatives of the G8 responsible for infrastructure-related programmes in Africa, multilateral agencies and key African institutions. China participated as an observer for the first time.
The agenda included two days of debates on critical themes linked to the need to scale up donor support to the development of much-needed infrastructure in Africa , and on making existing infrastructure more effective. In recognition of the importance of road transport to increasing intra-country trade and growth, a specific half-day discussion was held on that theme.
Participants reviewed the progress of the Consortium in its first year of operation. A key outcome is that the volume of new commitments by ICA members increased between 2005 and 2006, by some 10% on an Africa-wide basis. These conclusions emerge from the results of the survey carried out by the ICA Secretariat in December 2006.
There was considerable interest from ICA members on the need for a capacity building initiative in the area of infrastructure targeting the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and the African Union Commission (AUC). Work on the design of the initiative has started and the overall objective will be to fill some of the implementation delivery gaps in accordance with the agreed roles and responsibilities of the different actors.
Documents and presentations
Agenda of the meeting
ICA Secretariat (PDF 307KB)- Outcomes Statement
ICA Secretariat (PDF 120KB)
Day 1
Session 1: Outcomes
- Outcomes 2006
ICA Secretariat (PDF 6.9MB) - Ranking of priority projects and programmes: the case of the energy sector
AfDB (PDF 91KB) - Outcomes of the meeting on Financing electricity for growth in Africa
ICA Secretariat (PDF 6.9MB) - AICD study: progress report
World Bank (PDF 2.2MB) - Update on NEPAD MLTSF study
AfDB (PDF 115KB)
Session 2: Scaling up
- Overview of ICA’s Annual Report
ICA Secretariat (PDF 596KB) - EC efforts to meet the demands of African infrastructure: is it on time and sufficient?
European Commission (PDF 669KB) - Accelerating support to infrastructure in Africa
World Bank (PDF 5.4MB) - Africa’s demand for infrastructure
AfDB (PDF 931KB) - Overview of bilateral responses to annual report questions
ICA Secretariat (PDF 29KB)
Session 3: Chinese support to African infrastructure
- Chinese support to African infrastructure
China Eximbank (PDF 147KB)
Session 4: Cross-cutting issues
- Project ownership
ICA Secretariat (PDF 236KB) - Increasing disbursement rates in Africa
ICA Secretariat (PDF 337KB)
Session 5: Capacity building for Regional Economic Communities
- Coordinating infrastructure development in Africa
World Bank (PDF 334KB) - Regional infrastructure programs: strengthening RECs
AfDB (PDF 72KB) - AU/NEPAD coordination mechanism
AfDB (PDF 59KB) - Coordination mechanism for infrastructure development in Africa
African Union Commission (PDF 213KB)
Day 2
Session 1: Road transport development in Africa
- How does transport respond to regional integration demands and changing trade patterns
SSATP (PDF 2.8MB) - Road network upgrading and overland trade expansion in Africa
World Bank (PDF 1.0MB) - Prioritised road corridor transport projects
AfDB (PDF 2.2MB)
Session 2: PPP packaging and engaging with the private sector
- PPP: which way forward?
ICA Secretariat (PDF 2.3MB)
Session 3: Adoption of the ICA work plan for 2007
Proposed work programme for 2007
Additional material
- Infrastructures et développement urbain
AFD (PDF 153KB) [available in French only]