Despite appreciable efforts by ECOWAS, UEMOA, CEMAC, CEAC, EAC and other key players to promote infrastructure investment, the state of the regional infrastructure sectors and their contribution to the free trade area in Africa remains very modest.
C’est pourquoi, l’organisation du Africa Infrastructure Forum (AI Forum) à Abidjan vient à point nommé répondre à ce besoin.
The forum, which will be attended by several Heads of State, Heads of Government, infrastructure ministers, transport ministers, supervisory bodies and departments, builders, contractors and managers of land, port and airport infrastructure, suppliers of public works equipment and materials, design and engineering firms, multilateral organisations, logistics operators, financial backers, strategy and legal consultants, banks and insurance companies, private investors, and so on. The aim of the conference is to examine the financing needs of infrastructure in Africa, and to advocate the mobilisation of these resources as part of a dynamic involving the public and private sectors, in order to speed up the construction of major projects with a particular impact on the African Free Trade Area.
Il sera également le lieu pour la Côte d’Ivoire, comme pour d’autres pays Africains, de présenter ses grands projets d’infrastructures à divers investisseurs jouissant des capacités nécessaires et aussi de promouvoir le pays sur la scène internationale.