As a central government agency responsible for coordinating and driving South Africa’s infrastructure investment programme, Infrastructure South Africa (ISA) provides project preparation support to high value infrastructure projects and programmes, to help enhance the quality and rate of infrastructure delivery and to close the country’s infrastructure gap.
The Project Preparation support provided by ISA entails the deployment of capacity to projects to bridge developmental gaps such as:
- Funding and Financing structuring support: detailing of full project/programme costs, the identification of potential financing sources and support with the funding application processes such as application to the Budget Facility for Infrastructure (BFI), Development Finance Institutions and Multilateral Development Banks.
- Technical support: undertaking technical studies, including detailed designs and specifications, environmental impact assessment, cost benefit analysis and other specialist studies to contribute to bankable feasibility and business case development.
- Legal support: project contracting structure, assessment of potential terms and conditions of relationships with potential service providers.
- Institutional/governance arrangements: stakeholder identification and engagement, institutional capacity assessment, and determination of how projects will be implemented.
Project Preparation Support Dashboard
Over 24 infrastructure projects are currently receiving project preparation support with an estimated capital value of R148 billion towards bankability and investment. These projects span across all three spheres of government with a geographical footprint covering multiple provinces in South Africa.
The supported projects are in key priority sectors including energy, water and sanitation, transport, social infrastructure (education and health), human settlements, municipal infrastructure, industrial development zones/special economic zones, and digital Infrastructure.