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UN Sustainable Development Goal
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Partnerships, finance, knowledge exchange and implementation capacity.
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Credit Enhancement for African Infrastructure: Converting Guarantees into Investable Project Pipelines
Africa does not lack announcements about private capital. It lacks enough projects whose risks are allocated, priced, monitored and disclosed well enough for private capital to stay. A new €500 million financing for Benin, South Africa's planned infrastructure credit-guarantee vehicle, Nigeria's InfraCredit model and a multi-country renewable-energy guarantee framework show four different ways public institutions can strengthen a transaction. StoneComms examines when guarantees create additional investment - and when they simply replace visible public borrowing with less visible contingent risk.
Read research →Local-Currency Infrastructure Finance in Africa: Converting Domestic Savings into Investable Assets
Africa’s financial institutions already hold substantial domestic savings. Yet infrastructure projects that earn in naira, shillings, rand or CFA francs are still frequently prepared for foreign-currency lenders, short-tenor banks or public balance sheets. New guarantee facilities in Nigeria and East Africa, together with a 2026 West African local-currency facility, show that the missing link is not simply money. It is the machinery that turns projects into assets pension trustees can prudently buy.
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Africa's Power Interconnectors: Market Readiness, Payment Security and Local Delivery
Africa is joining national grids into regional power systems. The next test is whether electricity can move through them reliably, be paid for, and reach the people and firms whose demand justified the investment. StoneComms examines the missing span between an interconnector's completion and a functioning market.
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Climate-Risk Data for African Infrastructure: From Hazard Mapping to Investable Resilience
Africa is gaining sharper maps of heat, flood and drought just as its cities make decisions that will shape exposure for decades. But a hazard map does not become a safer market, road, substation or neighbourhood by itself. The missing infrastructure is the chain that converts climate evidence into a named decision, an accountable owner, a financed intervention and a measured result. StoneComms proposes a Decision-Ready Climate Record for making that chain visible.
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Women's Business Finance in Africa: Identity, Data, Risk-Sharing and Market Access
Africa's women-business finance market is attracting smarter capital, from first-loss guarantees in Kenya to dedicated credit lines and guarantee platforms across the continent. But the latest institutional evidence points to a deeper constraint: capital cannot reach firms that remain difficult to identify, register, assess, collateralise, serve and connect to markets. StoneComms proposes a Financeability Stack that treats those preconditions as investable infrastructure rather than side projects.
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Productive-Use Electrification in Africa: From Connection to Economic Activity under Mission 300
Mission 300 is accelerating electricity connections across Africa. The next challenge is making those connections economically durable. StoneComms finds that farms, small businesses, clinics, schools, cold chains and mobility can do more than benefit from electricity: they can become the anchor loads that improve the economics of distributed power itself.
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African Trade Integration: Customs, Corridors, Power, Payments and Standards as a Production System
Africa has built the legal architecture for a continental market. The harder task is making the systems firms use every day work across borders. StoneComms tests that challenge against live reforms in East, West, Central and Southern Africa and finds a practical investment implication: regional infrastructure should be financed as an operating system, not a collection of assets.
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