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Africa’s infrastructure deficit under spotlight as PIDA Week 2018 opens in Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, November 26, 2018 (ECA) – The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week 2018 opened in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Monday with a media breakfast that brought together journalists, infrastructure policymakers, development partners and private sector to discuss Africa’s infrastructure deficit and how that can be reduced to ensure inclusive development on the continent.

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Expert Group Meeting on Risks in Private Sector Investment in Trans-Boundary Infrastructure in Africa

The Economic Commission for Africa will be hosting an Expert Group Meeting on Risks in Private Sector Investment in Trans-Boundary Infrastructure in Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya, 13 - 15 July 2017.  This is in support of regional integration and the development of transboundary infrastructure through private sector investment.

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Enact policies to attract Africa’s pension funds to invest in continent’s infrastructure projects, says Mayaki

Dakar, Senegal, 26 March 2017 (ECA) - Africa must commit to a roadmap that will allow African Pension Funds to invest in Africa’s own infrastructure projects, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer of the Nepad Planning and Coordinating Agency, told participants to a high-level meeting on “innovations in infrastructure development and sustainable industrialization” here Sunday.

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ECA and NEPAD launch an investors’ guide for infrastructures in Africa

Dakar, 15 December 2016 (ECA) – International experts, ambassadors, high officials and entrepreneurs gathered today in Dakar for the launch of “16 infrastructure projects for African integration”.

This document is an investors’ guidebook produced by the Economic Commission for Africa and the NEPAD Agency at the request of President Macky Sall, Chairman of the NEPAD Heads of States and Government Orientation Committee; it examines the 16 projects selected at the Dakar Summit on Infrastructure (DFS), organized in June 2014 and covers the crucial issue of their financing.

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