InfraCo Africa is an infrastructure development facility of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG). InfraCo Africa seeks to alleviate poverty by mobilising private sector expertise and finance to develop infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa’s poorer countries. InfraCo Africa receives funding through PIDG’s publicly funded trust, from the governments of the UK (DFID), the Netherlands (DGIS) and Switzerland (SECO).
InfraCo Africa is a major shareholder in Western Power and is supporting the company with significant development funding as well as expertise in the form of experienced infrastructure development professionals working for the project in Zambia and internationally.
InfraCo Africa use their experience in the development and financing of major infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure that the project is developed, constructed and will be operated to the highest standards of governance and environmental and social sustainability.