MANAGING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RISK ON TOLL ROAD CONCESSION PROJECTS by JH van Wyk, Managing Director, Toll Infrastructure Services Road tolling is not a new... Read More

Farmers are usually optimistic, which is a key quality when a change in weather can wipe out a year’s work. Public-private partnership (PPP) can be... Read More

The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) discussed findings on opening up aviation, urban transport development and trade facilitation at a one-day workshop in Abidjan, Côte... Read More

East Africa’s Kenya and Tanzania are racing to build the region’s biggest ports and capture transport from the interior. Chinese finance and construction firms are... Read More

The World Bank and the Kumasi Metropolitan Authority (KMA) in Ghana are moving ahead on a $3.2m project to find contractors who can bid for... Read More

The goal of the Gautrain was not only to radically upgrade public transport in the Province, thereby making a contribution to the goals and objectives... Read More

The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) on 19 August issued a Preliminary Information Memorandum for the Kampala-Jinja Expressway public-private partnership (PPP). The memorandum was prepared... Read More

Urgent TENDER NEWS – DFID calls for £29m climate-resilience SADC water project The UK’s Department for International Development is moving into Phase 2 of its... Read More

Advanced seeds boost Ethiopia maize production despite drought Headlines of 18 million people suffering in Ethiopia’s worst drought for 50 years do not reveal the... Read More

World Bank extends $160m to cut Senegal’s high power costs The International Development Association of the World Bank Group has added another $70 million to... Read More

The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), attached to the World Bank Group, is leading in building skills and processes to step up the supply of... Read More

The African Development Bank is focusing on five priorities for accelerating economic transformation and calls them the “High 5s”. They are contained in the bank’s... Read More

Kenya has a fast-flowing project pipeline of public-private partnership projects, advanced by the PPP Unit at the National Treasury. These include a geothermal power, student... Read More