The International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa has called for Institutional Investor–Public Partnerships (IIPPs) to mobilize an additional $30 billion per year toward bankable and investable water security and sustainable sanitation investment opportunities across Africa.
IIPPs are innovative infrastructure investment partnerships between a government and investors, which seek to mobilize and deploy private capital in respect of climate-focused infrastructure investment programs and projects to deliver a country’s NDC and SDG commitments.
The International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa urged African governments to unlock and scale an unprecedented pipeline of investable water projects by forging closer institutional investor-public partnerships and greater risk-sharing between public and private finance.
According to the panel, pursuing IIPPs is both a continental and global imperative that offers significant investment