Abstract

The AfDB's Africa Infrastructure Knowledge Program

The Africa Infrastructure Knowledge Program (AIKP) is a successor program to the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) which grew out of the pledge by the G8 Summit of 2005 at Gleneagles to increase substantially ODA assistance to Africa, particularly the infrastructure sector, and the subsequent formation of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA). This was against the background that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suffers from a weak basic infrastructure base, and that this was a key factor in the SSA region not realizing its full potential for economic growth, international trade, and poverty reduction.

Since 2010, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has taken over leadership for managing the infrastructure database and knowledge work under its Africa Infrastructure Knowledge Program (AIKP). The AIKP builds on the AICD but has a longer-term perspective to provide a platform for: (i) regular updating of the infrastructure database on African countries; (ii) defining and developing analytic knowledge products to guide policy and funding decisions and to inform development policy and program management activities; and (iii) building infrastructure statistical capacity in the region. The AIKP is therefore intended to provide a sustainable framework for generating reliable and timely data on the various infrastructure sectors to guide policy design, monitoring and evaluation and to improve efficiency and delivery of infrastructure services.

The aikp collect a comprehensive data on the infrastructure sectors in Africa-covering power, transport, irrigation, water and sanitation, and information and communication technology (ICT), also the institutional and fiscal issues that cut across infrastructure performance and spending. The institutional issues relate to national level reforms and regulations as well as provider level governance structures in the utility infrastructure sector (energy, water, telecommunications), while the fiscal issues relate to spending and financing of infrastructure.

Geographic coverage

All African Countries

Analysis unit

Pays

Kind of data

Données administratives [adm]

Mode of data collection

Interview de groupe [foc]

Research instrument

Data collection is organized around a series of data templates that are made available for download online or distributed by the Statistical Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB-SD). these templates are organised by sector: Fiscal template: - Fiscal Data Template A: Jurisdictional responsibilities in infrastructure service delivery -national level - Fiscal Data Template B: Special funds financing infrastructure service delivery -national level - Fiscal Data Template C: Basic Budgetary Institutions -national level - Fiscal Data Template D: Budget Cycle, national level - Fiscal Data Template E. Macroeconomic parameters for budgetary context of infrastructure spending - Fiscal Data Template F. Functional and economic classification of government expenses - Fiscal Data Template G. Financial data of public operators Institutional template: - Institutional Data Template A: Reform variables - national level - Institutional Data Template B: Regulation variables - national level - Institutional Data Template C: Governance variables - utility level Power template: - Power Data Template A: National Level Institutions - Power Data Template B: National Level Data Variables - Power Data Template C: Utility Level Data Variables WSS template: - WSS Data Template A: National Level Institutions - WSS Data Template B: Utility Level Data Variables ICT template: - ICT Data Template A: National Level Institutions - ICT Data Template B: National Level Data Variables - ICT Data Template C: National Level Data Variables - ICT Data Template D: Utility Level Data Variables - ICT Data Template E: Operator level - Main national fixed line service provider - ICT Data Template F: Operator level - Largest mobile operator - ICT Data Template G: Operator level - Largest Internet Service Provider Roads template: - Roads Data Template A: Institutional variables – national level - Roads Data Template B: Technical variables – link by link Rails template: - Railways Data template A: Integrated national railway - Railway Data template B: Rail infrastructure company - Railway Data template C: Train operating company - Data template D: Binational railway - Data template E: Dedicated minerals railway Ports template: - Ports Data Template A: Institutional variables - national level - Ports Data Template B: Data variables - ports level Air template: Air Transport Template A: Collection from CAA or Main International Airport