Its estimated that Africa’s annual infrastructure investments needs are $108 billion per year, far beyond the reach of public sector financing alone. With such significant investment needs, the role of the private sector in helping to close the financing gap is well established.

However, the lack of a strong pipeline of well-prepared, bankable projects is widely recognized as one of the key constraints to unlocking private sector finance for infrastructure development in Africa

The Enabling Infrastructure Forum (EIF) is an Ecosystem Roundtable focused on the Opportunities, Issues and Constraints affecting Infrastructure Development & Investments in Africa

EIF holds as a quarterly session.