2021 - EAAIF Staging

Financial close for first Mozambique utility scale renewables project with battery storage supported by PIDG company Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund

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First utility battery storage project for Mozambique PIDG TA provides Viability Gap Funding grant A 19MW solar electricity plant to be built in the Niassa province of Mozambique reached…

PIDG grants US$500,000 to financial regulator to accelerate West African capital markets reforms and promote new sustainable financial instruments

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Local bond issue experience by PIDG company Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund results in capabilities boost for regulator. The Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), through its technical assistance (TA) offering, has…

Invitation to Tender – EAIF Communications Adviser

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The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) is a public private partnership that is at the forefront of debt financing in the infrastructure project sector in Africa and a leading player…

Pioneering Djermaya Solar project attracts new lenders to Chad

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Paris, France: InfraCo Africa, part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) is pleased to announce the participation of its sister PIDG company, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) alongside…

COP26 Aims to Tackle Infrastructure Financing in Emerging Economies

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On the eve of COP26, Africa Global Funds publishes a thoughtful and well- informed article by Martijn Proos and Mariana Graca of Ninety One. The authors discuss the COP agenda…

Big scale infrastructure developments like new ports create opportunities for advanced climate change management policies

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By Roland Janssens Roland Janssens is a Director at Ninety One, managers of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund In late October 2020, EAIF announced it had supported a successful, locally-issued,…

Private Infrastructure Development Group company Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund releases three minute animated film

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A three minute animated film has been released that explains what the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) does, how it is funded, its track record and the benefits it…

Will Africa’s road to prosperity be blocked by environmental concerns?

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Investment Monitor magazine's Jason Mitchell asks if Africa's insufficient road and rail network is delaying the continent's development, but efforts to resolve the situation are being held back by worries…

Can $100 billion in green finance be raised annually to help emerging economies fight climate change?

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Project finance for infrastructure in emerging economies is one of the central issues of the upcoming COP26 agenda. For the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) and its parent organization, the…

PIDG company, Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, lending €25 million to Côte d’Ivoire clean energy hydro-electricity project

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The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, is lending €25 million over 18 years to Ivoire Hydro Energy (IHE) which will build a 44MW…

Year: 2021