The money, and where it actually comes from

Mission 300 targets 300m new electricity connections with the AfDB by 2030.

Largest multilateral infrastructure lender on the continent; hosts the ICA and the AIDI.

Volumes fell ~90% from the 2016 peak and are now recovering in smaller, more collateralised tickets.

Trade-finance led, increasingly present in industrial and corridor assets.

No public database tracks Gulf infrastructure capital in Africa. That absence is itself a finding.

Disclosure portal publishes proposed investments 60 days before board approval — an early-warning feed.

Publishes the State of Africa's Infrastructure Report; the sharpest institutional analysis available.

ACWA is now among the largest single generators being built across North and Southern Africa.

World Bank Group guarantee arm; consolidated under one guarantee platform.

Lobito is the flagship; mandate renewal shapes forward capacity.

Sharia-compliant structures; strong Sahel and North African coverage.

Regional insurer whose cover is now a precondition for many IPPs.

One of the few institutions lending at sub-sovereign level.

Eastern and Southern Africa; strong in commodity-linked infrastructure.

Largest European bilateral by African infrastructure exposure.

Deep francophone West and Central African coverage.

The asset-recycling work is the substantive part of the platform.

The layer that decides whether local-currency infrastructure debt exists at all.