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AFRICAN UNION
UNION AFRICAINE
UNIÃO AFRICANA
7th Annual Meeting of Infrastructure
Consortium for Africa
KEY MESSAGES FROM THE AU
SUMMITS ON INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Paris, France , 16-18 May 2011
CONTENTS
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VISION ON INFRASTRUCTURE
NEED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
OPPORTUNITIES
KEY MESSAGES
CONCLUSION
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1-AFRICAN UNION INFRASTRUCTURE VISION
Efficient, reliable, cost effective,
environment friendly infrastructure and
services for physical integration and
MDG’s realization
Elaboration of sectorial policies,
strategies, and medium to long term
programmes, and mater plans
Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa
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2- NEED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT
 Economic growth
 Competitiveness
markets
in
global
 Achievement of MDG’s including
poverty reduction
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3- WHAT ARE THE
OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA?
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ENERGY SECTOR : OPPORTUNITIES
1. Large
Hydropower
Potential
(only 7 %
exploited
so far)
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ENERGY SECTOR : OPPORTUNITIES
2.
Eight(8%)
percent
of Global
Natural
Gas
Reserves
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ENERGY SECTOR : OPPORTUNITIES
3. Ten (10%)
percent
of Global
Oil
Reserves
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ENERGY SECTOR : OPPORTUNITIES
(contd)
4. Harnessing potential of renewable
–bioenergy , hydro, solar, wind
and geothermal
5. Huge untapped potential of energy
efficiencies
6. Regional integration for better
energy supply and security
TRANSPORT SECTOR :OPPORTUNITIES
 Insufficient transport and low
quality infrastructure
 Limited connectivity of transport
networks
 Low access to all weather transport
infrastructure and services
 Cumbersome procedures and poor
transit transport facilities
 High cost of transport services
MISSING LINKS ON MAJOR TRANSPORT
CORRIDORS
Trans African Highways (TAH)
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TRANS AFRICAN HIGHWAYS AND MAJOR
PORTS
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OPPORTUNITIES IN ICT SECTOR
 Infrastructure Gaps
 Inadequate broadband network
development
 Poor quality and high cost of services
 Huge gaps in Telecom/ICT access
between urban and rural areas;
 Low Internet access
 Insufficient Investment
 Weak and Ineffective Regulatory
Framework;
 Ineffective Provision of Universal Access
4- KEY MESSAGES
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AU SUMMITS ON INFRASTRUCTURE
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July 2008, XI Summit: Sharm-ElCheikh, Egypt, on Water
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January 2009, XII Summit: AddisAbaba, Ethiopia, on transport &
energy
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AU SUMMITS ON INFRASTRUCTURE
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January 2010, XIV Summit: AddisAbaba,
Ethiopia,
on
ICT
development in Africa
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July 2010, XV Summit: Kampala,
Uganda on official launching of
PIDA and endorsement of the
Executive Council on the process
of conducting the IAIDA study
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KEY MESSAGES
1. African Ownership and responsibility
2. Deepening regional Cooperation and
integration
3. Mobilization of resources
4. Developing capacity for projects
preparation and implementation
5. Strengthening coordination to all
national, regional and continental
efforts
1.AFRICAN OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY
TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW!!
 Put infrastructure into national priority
plans
 Integrate the agreed regional priority
programs into national plans
 Contribute financially to the NEPAD
Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility
 Strengthen AU capacity for facilitation
and coordination of implementation of
agreed projects
2. DEEPENING REGIONAL COOPERATION
AND INTEGRATION
 Enhance the production of inter-State in
energy by :
• Developping
major
regional
and
continental hydroelectric power projects
and interconnections
• Implementing
high
capacity
oil
refineries and oil pipelines projects
 Develop renewable energy resources
 Complete the missing sections in the major
transport corridors (TAH)
2. DEEPENING REGIONAL COOPERATION
AND INTEGRATION (cont.)
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
Remove all physical and nonphysical barriers to development of
inter-State transport in Africa
Regional
&
sub-regional
interconnection of ICT BROADBAND
(Kigali Summit)
3. RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
 Increase
public
financing
of
infrastructure
and actively promote
Public-Private-Partnerships
 Deepen regional capital markets for
more mobilization of resources and
regional financial integration
 Set up special investment instruments
such as infrastructure bonds
 Improve the investment climate
 Promote Africa as an investment
destination
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4. DEVELOPING CAPACITY FOR
IMPLEMENTATION
 Develop
the Program for Infrastructure
Development in Africa (PIDA) :
 Common continental policies and
strategies
 Continental sector programs (short,
medium and long term)
 Implementation process
 Put
in place continental Institutional
architecture
for
infrastructure
development
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4. DEVELOPING CAPACITY FOR
IMPLEMENTATION ( cont)
 Harmonize regulations and standards
to promote interconnection of networks
 Create appropriate framework for
development of the major integration
projects
 Carry out the necessary reforms to
ensure better maintenance and
management systems of infrastructure
V -CONCLUSION
 Strong political commitment
 High priorities identified
 AU members States and RECs to
foster the inter-African international
cooperation
 AUC to deploy its efforts to
coordinate
infrastructure
development on the continent
MERCI
OBRIGADO
THANK YOU
‫شكرا‬
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