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Infrastructures in Africa

Infrastructures in Africa. Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)

The Subject “Infrastructures in Africa. Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa” consists of two parts:

1- Infrastructures in Africa.
  1. African Infrastructure Knowledge Programme
  2. Infrastructure Consortium for Africa
  3. Trends in the Infrastructure Investments in Africa
  4. Analysis of infrastructure in Africa
  5. Infrastructure and economic growth in Africa
  6. Infrastructure and poverty reduction
  7. African institutional framework for infrastructure
  8. Urbanization and delivery of the infrastructure services
  9. African Regional Integration and infrastructures
  10. Information and communication technology (ICT) in Africa
  11. Spectacular growth in the ICT access
  12. African mobile revolution
  13. ICT and integration in Africa
  14. Irrigation
  15. Power
  16. Sanitation
  17. Water Resources and Supply
  18. Introduction to the Transport and Logistics in Africa (*)

(* Analyzed in another module).

2- Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA).

  1. Introduction to the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)
  2. Key sectors of the PIDA
    1. Energy
    2. Transport
    3. ICT
    4. Transboundary Water Resources
  3. PIDA outcomes: development through the regional integration
  4. Costs and investments of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa
  5. Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM / IATA)

“Infrastructures in Africa. Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa”
Africa Telecommunications and Infraestructures

E-learning Doctorate and Masters in International Business

The Subject “Infrastructures in Africa. Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa” belongs to the following Online Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Courses: Transport in Africa, African Economic Integration.

Transport and Logistics in Africa. Corridors, ports

Masters: Business in Africa, Transport in Africa, International Business.

Masters in International Business and Foreign Trade (MIB)

Doctorate: African Business, Global Logistics, World Trade.

Doctorate in International Business (DIB) Online

Languages: Masters, Doctorate, International Business, English or Study Doctorate in International Business in French Infrastructures en Afrique Masters Foreign Trade in Portuguese Infraestruturas na África Study Master Doctorate in International Business in Spanish Infraestructuras en África.

African Economic Integration

Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Master

Infrastructures in Africa. Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa.

Infrastructure has been a significant driver of the strong economic growth in the African economies in the last years. The international transport sector in Africa requires 18 billion dollars in annual investment, 50% for operations and maintenance.

  1. The largest countries that are financing infrastructures in Africa are China (13.4 billion dollars), Brazil, India, and South Korea
  2. The most attractive African Countries for investment in infrastructures are South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana, Uganda, Angola, Namibia, and Zambia
  3. Substantial investments in information and communications technology and infrastructures will be made to meet the market demand for the telecommunications services in twenty-four countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
  4. Africa has benefited from some significant optimizations in infrastructure
  5. 50% of the African population lives in range of a GSM mobile phone signal
  6. Five African Countries have already met the UN Millennium Goals for universal water access, and twelve others are on-track to do so, 80% of the African main road network is in good or fair condition
  7. Only 33% of rural Africans has access to an all-season Roads, 20% of the population in Cameroon, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, and Tanzania must travel 2 kilometers to their main water supply
  8. African Consumers should pay double as much for basic services as people elsewhere in the World, a monthly basket of prepaid mobile telephone services costs 12 USD in Africa but only 2 USD in South Asia
  9. The chronic power shortages plague thirty African Countries, only 25% of Africans have access to electricity. The entire installed generation capacity of forty-eight Sub-Saharan African Countries is 68 gigawatts
  10. The companies in many African Countries indicate that the biggest Technical Barriers to do business is the power constraint. Outside of South Africa, power consumption is barely 1% of the level in high-income countries

The four pillar of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) are:

  1. Energy
  2. Transport
  3. Information and Communication Technologies
  4. Transboundary Water Resources

The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) is executed by the African Development Bank, and lead by the African Union and AUDA-NEPAD.

Trans-African corridors:

  1. Trans-African Road Network
  2. Lobito
  3. Northern Corridor
  4. Algiers-Lagos
  5. Cairo-Dakar
  6. Asia-Africa Corridor

Rail Transport in Africa.

EENI African Business Portal.

We Trust in Africa (Affordable Higher Education for Africans)

African Northern Corridor (Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda) Road Transport