1-1. Infrastructure [ Boosting Economic Growth ]
Annual Progress Report 2008(HTML) 2009(PDF)
1-1-0. Overall
Yokohama Action Plan | Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners | Implementing Partners |
Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary) |
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GoJ/JICA | GoJ (MOFA)/JICA: Grants and technical assistance out of ¥37 billion on infrastructure (*) | ||
GoJ: Provision of loans to projects under this sector (*) |
1-1-1. Regional transport infrastructure, including roads and ports
Yokohama Action Plan | Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners | Implementing Partners |
Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary) |
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[1] Provide financial and technical assistance for the planning, construction and improvement of regional transport corridors and international ports. | ● Development/expansion of national and regional transport corridors | GoJ/JICA/WBG/AfDB/EC/ICA | WBG: Scale up co-financing, estimated financing of $ 600 million |
EC: € 5,6 billion in 10th EDF | |||
AfDB: $ 5 billion | |||
GoJ/WBG/AfDB/ICA: Use the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) as a platform to promote regional infrastructure development | |||
GoJ(MLIT) | Implementation of study and support for development of road infrastructure | ||
[2] Support capacity building for the management and maintenance of regional infrastructure. [3] Promote facilitation of cross-border procedures such as One Stop Border Post (OSBP). |
● Promote facilitation of cross-border procedures | GoJ(MOFA)/GoJ(MOF)/GoUK(DFID)/JICA | GoJ (MOFA)/JICA: Expansion of the OSBP project to 14 points |
GoUK(DFID): Support OSBP in the framework of the Regional Trade Facilitation Programme at a border post in Southern African region | |||
GoJ (MOF): Hold seminars/training and dispatch experts in the field of customs in collaboration with WCO | |||
[4] Support technical cooperation for comprehensive community development along with infrastructure development. |
1-1-2. Regional power infrastructure
Yokohama Action Plan | Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners | Implementing Partners |
Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary) |
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[1] Strengthen cooperation to provide a stable power supply for the whole region, and to build capacity to manage and maintain regional power networks. | ● Support development/expansion of power projects and transmission and distribution networks | GoJ/WBG/AfDB/Africa-EU Partnership on Energy/ICA/JICA | WBG: (i) Double annual lending to $ 2 billion and aim to mobilize another $ 2 billion in co-financing, (ii) Support to Southern Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and East Africa Power Pools in the order of $ 500 million per year, (iii) IFC to finance 15 + Public Private Partnership (PPP) in power sector FY 2008-2011, estimated financing of $400-500 million |
AfDB: $ 5.5 billion for power generation, transmission and distribution | |||
GoJ/WBG/AfDB/ICA: Use the ICA as a platform to promote regional infrastructure development | |||
EU: ca. € 300 million |
1-1-3.Water-related infrastructure
Yokohama Action Plan | Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners | Implementing Partners |
Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary) |
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[1] Support agricultural water-development initiatives to rapidly expand the share of land under irrigation, and other improved water control and management infrastructure. |
1-1-4.Enhanced involvement of regional institutions
Yokohama Action Plan | Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners | Implementing Partners |
Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary) |
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[1] Support capacity building of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and regional development banks to better plan, finance and execute infrastructure programs, and provide technical assistance for regional infrastructure investment planning. |
1-1-5.Promotion of public-private partnership (PPP) in infrastructure
Yokohama Action Plan | Proposed Measures by Japan/Implementing Partners | Implementing Partners |
Potential Resources, Possible Contributions (Summary) |
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[1]Promote, support and strengthen PPP in infrastructure such as ports, railway and electric power plants to increase opportunities for the private sector by utilizing other official flows (OOF). | |||
[2]Others | ●Conduct a feasibility study to implement a project of STEP (Special Terms for Economic Partnership), industrial and logistic infrastructure for enhancing trade and investment with Japan, or participation of private enterprises | GoJ(METI) | GOJ (METI): Project of industrial and logistic infrastructure for global environment adoptation and utilization of Japanese technology |
●Concrete projects will be selected through consultations between Japan/Implementing Partners and African countries.
●MDB projects are to be decided.
●$ = US dollars
●Assistance measures written on a yellow ground are those embodied in 2008 (JFY) after TICAD IV.
●Assistance measures written on a pink ground are those embodied in 2009 (JFY) after TICAD IV.
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