10003421-Early-stage infrastructure project preparation via the AUDA-NEPAD Service Delivery Mechanism

To continue GIZ"s support to the African Union Development Agency"s (AUDA-NEPAD) Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) on implementation of regional infrastructure. GIZ, through two the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development"s (BMZ) funded programmes, the Integrated Corridors for Economic Growth in Africa (Africa InCORE) and Accelerating the Energy Transition in Africa (ENGAGE) aims to support AUDA-NEPAD in its implementation of the agency"s Service Delivery Mechanism (SDM). The SDM is a strategic platform designed to accelerate the preparation and implementation of infrastructure projects across Africa. Focused on early-stage infrastructure projects, the principal aim of this is to, through the SDM, support projects" progression to full feasibility studies. Africa InCORE"s principal objective is to support the Africa Union to ensure that the development of integrated infrastructure corridors is better aligned with regional integration, green economic growth and intra-African trade. To this end, in an expansion of the corridor-based intervention piloted in the Central Corridor, North-South Corridor was selected as a second corridor to receive project preparation support. For this, AUDA-NEPAD"s SDM will be made available to support infrastructure and/or industrialisation projects derived from the lists presented by the institutions responsible for the two selected corridors. Thus, the "Client" for these infrastructure and/or industrialisation projects is AUDA-NEPAD, the Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CCTTFA), the Southern African Development Agency (SADC) for North-South Corridor, GIZ, and their various Member States or some combination of these as is relevant for each project. The ENGAGE programme is carried out as part of an integrated approach together with the global programme Global Energy Transition Program (GET.pro) and Africa InCORE. The aim of ENGAGE is to accelerate Africa"s renewable energy transition by supporting the implementation the Continental Power Systems Master Plan (CMP) and the African Single Electricity Market (AfSEM). This is achieved, in part, through early-stage (variable) renewable and transmission energy project preparation by the SDM. This project preparation approach seeks to bring together realisation of the CMP and application of the AU"s integrated corridor approach"s principles. To this end, the early-stage infrastructure projects supported by ENGAGE focuses on projects with an impact on the Central Corridor and North-South-Corridor Member States.