Welcome to Africa Infrastructure Foundation
About Us
Africa Infrastructure Foundation was founded in April 1995 as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) for the purposes of carrying out activities about sustaining Africa’s infrastructure in order to improve the quality of the environment, enhance socio-economic development and reduce poverty. The Foundation maintains a Special Consultative Status with the United Nations (UN).
AIF has a Special Consultative Status with the United Nations (Department of Social and Economic Affairs (DESA) and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)).
The Foundation’s works are directed at the following aspects of infrastructure which have great impact on the quality of the environment, socio-economic development, and poverty reduction.
Objectives and Commitments
- To mobilise intellectual, technical and financial resources to sustain Africa’s basic development infrastructure so that their effects can be advanced to sustain the environment and enhance socio-economic development.
- To evolve and advance poverty reduction/alleviation strategies through the paradigm of effective infrastructure and resources governance
- To make the resources of the Foundation available to national governments of Africa and to support community development projects which will improve the quality of the environment and bring about desirable socio-economic development.
- To improve the quality and socio-economics of the rural and urban environments for poverty reduction.
- To anticipate, monitor, minimize and control problems poorly managed and governed infrastructure pose to the environment, socio-economic development and general peoples’ well-being.
- To disseminate and manage information, raise awareness, provide education, advocate and formulate policies, participate in joint operational projects on the governance and management of infrastructure to provide sustainable environmental quality and socio-economic development
- To design and execute Strategic Intervention Programmes (SIP) which will be devoted to improving the quality of the environment, enhancing socio-economic development and reducing poverty.
- To consider appropriate technologies which are efficient, reliable, economical, and relevant to the African environment in sustaining her infrastructure for environmental quality, socio-economic development and poverty reduction.
- To articulate issues and develop agenda on infrastructure governance and integrated resources development management.
- To mainstream gender issues and their importance and effects on infrastructure governance and management.
- To emphasize the need for good and efficient institutions in the attainment of a sustainable socio-economic development.
