PIDA Week: Private And Public Sector Partnerships Key To Unlocking Africa's Infrastructure Funding

摘要

In November, the 2019 Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week opened in Cairo, Egypt, with a clarion call from key players in the infrastructure sector for enhanced partnerships between the public and private sectors to develop the continent's infrastructure to spur industrial growth and employment creation.They agreed that greater economic activity, enhanced efficiency and increased competitiveness on the continent were continually being hampered by inadequate transport, communication, water and power infrastructure."The lack of infrastructure in Africa is an obstruction to economic growth, hence the need to expedite infrastructure development projects to achieve the 2063 development agenda," said Ambassador Khaled Emara, Assistant Foreign Minister for African Organisations and Communities and Egyptian President's Representative to the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD).