Malawi

Project involves the rehabilitation of nine road links along the North-South Corridor Aid for Trade Road Network, to bring them up to standard to facilitate the movement of goods and people across borders along eight countries in the region. IPPF would support preparation of NSC projects to a bankability stage, including detailed design, EIAs and preparation of bidding documents.   

To study the feasibility of expanding Mtwara port to give sea access to Zambia, northern Malawi and northeastern Mozambique

To increase knowledge of the Shire and Zambezi Rivers to explore the feasibility of reopening the waterway for transportation. Project involves a Feasibility Study and preparation of an Investment Plan.

To prepare the Feasibility Study for upgrading the Corridor. Now changed to focus on one-stop border crossing.

Component I:

Preparation of Shared Vision 2050 and Songwe River Basin Development Programme (SRBDP)

Component II: Updating Feasibility, Detailed Design and Preparation of Capital Investments

Component III: Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment; and

Component IV: Institutional Development

Objective of the project

To assist in the transaction analysis phase of the project as well as update the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) to enable the project to reach financial closure and physical implementation. The EASSy is an initiative to construct and operate a submarine fiber-optic cable along the east coast of Africa to connect 20 coastal and land-locked countries to each other and to the rest of the world.

The objective of the project

To complete outstanding project development work: updating the feasibility study, undertaking due diligence with respect to the review of financial, technical and legal aspects of the project, and preparing a Project Information Memorandum (PIM) for presentation to public and private investors.