ICA Annual Report 2011 - The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa

ICA Annual Report 2011
3. Preface
The rational of the sixth annual report is to provide a
summary of financial commitments and disbursements
made by members of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa
(ICA) in 2011, and identifies year on year trends. It also
discusses commitments to regional projects and support
from other important sources funders, most notably China,
the Arab Fund Coordination Group and African Regional
Development Banks. The ICA Secretariat has compiled this
report, based on a survey in the form of a questionnaire to
ICA members and other partners as well as a web based
literature review.
The 2011 survey was aimed at recording both 2011 levels
of commitments and disbursements to African infrastructure
projects by ICA members (i.e. all funds and facilities). It was
divided into four sections: the first section was based on
quantitative data, followed by the section dealing with
qualitative information. Both enquired about commitments
and disbursements. The next sections explored nonconcessional
flows versus ODA; soft infrastructure versus
hard infrastructure commitments; regional breakdowns and
commitments and disbursements in regional projects.
The ICA Secretariat received most of the returned
questionnaires in a complete and coherent form, although
gaps were evident in allocating commitments or quantifying
disbursements. For this reason, two different total amounts
of commitments were used in the present report: (i)
commitments by sector and region (Figure 8), amounting
to USD10.8bn, of which USD1.1bn remained unallocated
and (ii) total commitments, making up USD11.9bn for other
figures.
At the time of writing this report data from Russia, Italy, USA
and DBSA were not fully available. Data for the previous
years 2005 to 2010 were taken from the ICA Annual Reports
(2006 to 2010).
It is recommended that the present report should be read
alongside the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic
(AICD), which was originally commissioned by the
ICA, but has now successfully migrated to the African
Development Bank, and was subsequently renamed the
“Africa Infrastructure Knowledge Programme” (AIKP, www.
infrastructureafrica.org). The AIKP provides an analysis of
the state of infrastructure and investment needs in Africa
based on demand, and from another perspective, provides
insights on infrastructure and investment needs in a broader
context.
The ICA is now in the third and final year of its 2010-2012
Strategic Business Plan, and as agreed at the Annual Meeting
in Tunis in June 2012, the current SBP has been extended
to the end of 2013. There is a consultancy agreement
underway to review the Strategic Business Plan.
Sebastian Mogos-Lindemann, November 2012
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