More than 12 years of EU-AITF involvement coming to an end
The EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund (EU-AITF) contributes to increase investment in infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa.
It does so by blending long term loans from participating financiers with grant resources from Donors, in four different sectors of activity (water, energy, transport, ICT).
Since 2019, the EU-AITF does not accept new grant applications. The Fund, now in its post-Commitment phase, focuses on seeing existing grant operations through until completion.
Updated information on the status of each grant will still be provided on our list of Grant Operations. The EU-AITF was established by the European Commission and European Member States. The European Investment Bank runs the EU-AITF Secretariat.
Donors
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European Commission |
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Austria |
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Belgium |
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Finland |
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France |
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Germany |
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Greece |
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Hungary |
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Italy |
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Luxembourg |
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The Netherlands |
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Portugal |
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Spain |
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The United Kingdom |
Participating financiers
The EU-AITF financial resources are being deployed by the following financiers:
- African Development Bank
- Agence française de Développement
- BIO
- Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
- COFIDES
- European Investment Bank
- Finnfund
- Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
- LuxDev
- Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank
- Private Infrastructure Development Group
- SOFID
Results 2007 – 2019:
- 123 grant operations approved in sub-Saharan Africa, in four sectors of activity (energy, water, transport, ICT)
- support of more than 90 different projects
EUR 763 million committed to grant operations, which have leveraged investments in projects worth EUR 11.4 billion
- 30% of grant operations already completed, more than 50% of projects in their investment phase
With these operations, the EU-AITF will have contributed to developing sub-Saharan Africa’s economy and to improving people’s living conditions in many ways, such as:
- 693 500 households to be provided with safe drinking water
- Power to be generated for more than 4 000 0000 households
- 10 262 jobs to be created for operations and maintenance
- 11 930 km of internet cable installed
Get support
The successor to the EU-AITF is the Africa Investment Platform (AIP), managed by the European Commission.