Defining priorities for regional digital investment
Digital development · Central Africa
Mapped digital investment needs across four markets to inform priorities for a regional program, covering infrastructure and skills.
The situation
A development finance institution was translating a continental digital transformation initiative into country programs across four Central African markets. It needed a common diagnostic method across digital infrastructure, platforms, financial services, entrepreneurship, and skills, without flattening the differences between countries.
Our role
Our senior team led the digital infrastructure assessments across all four countries and contributed to the wider program across the five foundations.
The work
The work combined country and industry assessment, senior public and private sector consultations, field missions, investment pipeline quantification, and review of the regulatory and institutional conditions needed to unlock investment. It examined connectivity, backbone infrastructure, open access, competition, affordability, and the conditions for private participation, and connected these with the other foundations to surface regional linkages.
What changed
The assessments gave the institution and the governments a shared evidence base and a sequenced set of priorities across policy, regulation, institutional capability, and investment, and connected preliminary findings with country portfolios and future financing.
Related service
This assignment sits within investment origination and preparation, at the point where market evidence becomes a pipeline an institution can appraise.
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