Building Economic Resilience through Strategic Infrastructure policy

What’s Inside

A major contributor to the knowledge gap in infrastructure in Africa is the absence of accessible data and information. This creates a gap in public participation, as the citizens are unable to access information about various existing policies in order to hold their governments accountable or monitor the implementation of existing policies. There is a disconnect between governments and citizens where infrastructure policymaking is concerned with policies that do not reflect citizens’ needs.

This project identifies infrastructure-related policies across African countries, summarises key information about the identified policies, highlights the current statuses, analyses the legal effect of the policies, and provides a link for users to access the full policy document. The project provides an online tool where individuals can perform a quick search based on their respective country of nationality (or interest).

The objective of this project is to contribute to infrastructure policy awareness by making information accessible to citizens. Furthermore, the project aids infrastructure research in Africa as well as increases citizens’ knowledge on relevant infrastructure policies.