GLOBAL:Scaling Up Private Participation in Road Asset Management in Low-Income Countries

This initiative explored non-traditional means to raise additional private financing for the upgrade and maintenance of developing countries’ road networks. To achieve this goal, it combines an in-depth review of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries’ Road Funds’ (RF) performance and Road PPPs to evaluate the potential for RFs to fund road PPPs when specific conditions are met. The study (i) assessed SSA Road Funds performance based on an updated RMI -Matrix and extended this assessment to a set of Road Funds in and outside SSA region, such as the Road Funds of Lao PDR, Poland and India; (ii) assessed the experience of a set of road funds to identify feasible options for road funds to contribute to the Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD) agenda; and (iii) designed a PPP structure suitable to a low income country based on good practice.