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
Proparco and Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund partner to finance the first biomass plant with grid injection in Africa
During the visit to Côte d’Ivoire by Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) have closed a 165M EUR project finance deal and 13M EUR grant to secure the financing of Biovea project in Ivory Coast, which will be the first biomass… Read more »
Growing Africa’s attractiveness to private investors in infrastructure is fundamental to recovery from COVID and tackling climate change
7th June 2021 – RenewAfrica, a leading publication covering intelligence on Africa’s renewable energy transition, today publishes a blog by Martijn Proos, a Director at Ninety One. In the blog, he looks at how the EAIF business model works and how the model can help Africa recover from COVID and contribute to managing climate change.
Housing a continent
In a special report on affordable housing in Africa, coordinated by AFFORD UK, New African magazine looked at the work of EAIF and other PIDG companies. You can read the article here; https://newafricanmagazine.com/25921/ To read the whole report visit Housing a Continent
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 »