Working version — subject to validation by the Joint Organizing Committee. Unconfirmed items are marked TBC.
Overarching Goal
Accelerate alignment — and build momentum, not deals. From political priorities to aligned, structured projects; from alignment to preparation and bankability; from bankable projects to integrated regional corridors and systems. PIDA Week creates momentum for delivery — it does not close deals.
The binding constraint is not capital — it is alignment. Endorsed, financed, even prepared projects still stall on legal, regulatory and institutional alignment — the asset is ready before the ecosystem is. Delivery is a layered sequence: political → legal → regulatory → fiscal → technical → institutional → operational. A project advances only as far as its weakest upstream layer — and the burden compounds with every added state.
Specific Objectives
- Accelerate alignment — legal, regulatory, institutional, technical, fiscal and planning — across PIDA PAP 2 and regional projects.
- Advance preparation, maturation and bankability of priority projects, with a focus on the CEEAC/Central Africa portfolio.
- Strengthen the productive use of infrastructure and energy investment — corridors, value chains, local content, industrialisation.
- Improve coordination among promoters, RECs, preparation facilities, development banks and investors.
- Build momentum: agree a roadmap with clear responsibilities and a follow-up mechanism to accelerate delivery.
Programme Architecture — Alignment First
Axis 1 · Leads — Accelerating Alignment
Legal, technical, institutional, regulatory, fiscal and planning alignment as the condition for bankable regional infrastructure projects.
Axis 2 — Preparation, Maturation & Bankability
Maturity diagnostics, preparation clinics and links to preparation finance — once alignment is moving.
Axis 3 — Productive Use of Infrastructure & Energy
Corridors, value chains, local content, industrialisation and energy investment that put assets to work.
Axis 4 — Water, Sanitation & Resilience · AU 2026
The continental priority of the year — bankable water access, sanitation, standards alignment and resilience, aligned with the AU 2026 theme: Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems to Achieve the Goals of Agenda 2063.
Expected Outcomes
- Alignment diagnostics — priority projects mapped against the alignment layers; blockers located.
- Consolidated pipeline — a consolidated portfolio of priority regional projects.
- Needs identified — alignment, preparation and financing needs clearly identified.
- Commitments to accelerate — follow-up commitments, formalised without pre-judging amounts.
- Brazzaville Roadmap — an acceleration agenda with clear responsibilities.
- Sustained momentum — a post-event follow-up mechanism and final report.