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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP NEPAD-INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT PREPARATION FACILITY Fostering Infrastructure Development in Africa Nacala Development Corridor February (2012) Bocar Cisse Senior Financial Analyst, African Development Bank AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP OUTLINE Background Description Benefits Status/Contact Background • SADC identified this road as one of the strategic intra-regional routes that provide access to centers of economic activity and • link the landlocked countries to ports and harborshe • Most of the strategic roads are part of development corridors identified as pre-requisites to economic development and regional integration AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP Description Preparatory Activities • Feasibility and Detailed engineering design and preparation of bidding documents including environmental and socioeconomic impact studies for the upgrading of the CuambaMandimba road (160km) in Mozambique; • economic evaluation and detailed engineering design and preparation of tender documents including esia for the rehabilitation of the Mangochi-Liwonde Junction road in Malawi; • Feasibility study and preliminary design of the Malawi/Zambia one-stop border post; Detail engineering design and preparation of bidding documents for the Malawi/Zambia and Mozambique/Malawi one-stop border posts; • Legal framework for the extra-territorial operation of onestop border posts at the common border crossing AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP Description Executing Agencies • SADC Cost/Financing • The total cost is about US$2.00 million • The NEPAD-IPPF is providing US65% and JICA 29% ,reminder SADCt Mozammbique Ongoing Activities NACALA ROAD CORRIDOR Description • Study: Road section Malawi Zambia and Mozambique Cost: • 2million USD • 65%.1% from NEPAD IPPF • 29.1% JICA Status • Bank is considering financing investment for 1st phase • Consultant to undertake studies will be procured through international bidding using Bank rules for the procurement of consultants AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP Benefits Infrastructure Need in Africa (according to PIDA) • An efficient and safe electricity supply mode to Burkina Faso • improved, affordable and sustainable access to energy for WAPP countries with limited energy resources • Economic benefits from cost-savings associated with a significantly reduced utilization of fossil fuels for powering generating plants in Burkina Faso • Fiscal benefits accruing to both Ghana and Burkina Faso governments through increased business and industrial activities; • Ensure security of electricity supply for the interconnected networks in the region in the long-term, through diversification of supply sources and optimal utilization of the region’s energy resources AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP Benefits provides Malawi and eastern Zambia with a link to the Nacala port providing a viable alternative route for the countries’ exports and imports as compared to the Beira, Durban and Dar-es-Salaam routes facilitate rapid movement of goods and people between the three countries reducing in-transit times and protect the investment from overloading of heavy goods vehicles AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP Status First phase completed Second Phase ongpoing Physical Project to be appraised by OITC (Transport 2013) AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP THANK YOU MERCI DANK U Contacts Bocar Cisse Senior Fiancial Analyst ONRI African Development Bank Tel : (216) 71 10 2316 [email protected]