What we've achieved
- Contributing to political and economic stability
- Helping eliminate poverty
- Mobilising private sector capital
- Stimulating economic progress
- Attracting foreign direct investment
- Encouraging small business creation
- Supporting enterprising owners and managers
- Creating lasting jobs
- Building the essentials of sustainable progress
Sectors we work in
Applying for project support
If you are looking for debt finance for an infrastructure project in sub-Saharan Africa please talk to us.
EAIF mainly supports private sector infrastructure projects to create new or expand existing facilities. We welcome enquiries from companies in Africa and worldwide that want to grow their businesses in sub-Saharan Africa and share our commitment to the continent and its peoples. Enquiries are also welcome from financial advisers and specialist consultants.
Latest news
Global Trade Review names EAIF-backed Zimborders project as a global Deal of the Year Award for “Optimism and Rehabilitation”
On 19th April, Global Trade Review (GTR) magazine announced that had named the Zimborders project that is revitalising the Beitbridge border post between Zimbabwe and South Africa as one of its eleven worldwide “Deals of the Year”. PIDG company, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund has loaned Zimborders, the private sector company that won the competition… Read more »
EAIF issues advisor tender for project in Kenya
EAIF will be appointing an independent technical advisor to act as Lender Technical Advisor for the appraisal and due diligence of the Homa Bay Biogas One Project. The Project is the first of a series of biogas plants, with a total feed-in generation capacity of 35 MW, using water hyacinth from Lake Victoria and sugar… Read more »
Liquid Telecom: Bond market better for growing operations
On 22nd March, reporter Mudiwa Gavaza of Business Day newspaper wrote about the investment plans of Liquid Telecommunications, which recently had a successful bond issue supported by PIDG company, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund. Read the full story.
Our funders
EAIF is funded by the governments of the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden. It raises its debt capital from public and private sources, including Allianz, the global insurance and financial services company; Standard Chartered Bank; the African Development Bank; the German development finance institution, KFW, and FMO, the Dutch development bank.
International Women’s Day: Choose to Challenge Gender Bias and Inequalities
By Wendy Mlotshwa Wendy Mlotshwa MSc BSc is an Environmental, Social and Governance analyst at the Cape Town offices of Ninety One, the managers of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF). In this article she looks at how PIDG and EAIF promote female empowerment in numerous aspects of infrastructure finance, construction and operation. Gender inequality… Read more »