Abbreviations & Acronyms

ADF

African Development Fund

 

AFD

French Agency for Development

 

AfDB

African Development Bank

 

ADOA

Additionality and Development Outcome Assessment

 

AICD

Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostics

 

AIIB

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

 

ALSF

African Legal Services Facility

 

AsDB

Asian Development Bank

 

BDEV

Bank Independent Development Evaluation

 

BOO

Build-Own-Operate

 

BOOT

Build-Own-Operate-Transfer

 

BOT

Build-Operate-Transfer

 

BTO

Build-Transfer-Operate

 

DBFO

Designs-Build-Finance-Operate

 

DBO

Design-Build-Operate

 

DBOT

Design-Build-Operate-Transfer

 

DCT

Doraleh Container Terminal

 

DFI

Development Finance Institution

 

DPDC

Dibamba Power Development Company

 

DPWD

Dubai Ports World Dakar

 

DRC

Democratic Republic of Congo

 

EBRD

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

 

ECG

Evaluation Cooperation Group

 

EIB

European Investment Bank

 

EIU

Economist Intelligence Unit

 

ESW

Economic and Sector Work

 

EUR

Euro

 

EVRD

Evaluation Results Database

 

FAPA

Fund for African Private Sector Assistance

 

FMO

Netherlands Development Finance Company

 

G20

Group of Twenty

 

G8

Group of Eight

 

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

 

GIF

Global Infrastructure Facility

 

GPS

Good Practice Standards

 

HKB

Henri Konan Bédié

 

ICA

Infrastructure Consortium for Africa

 

ICT

Information and Communication Technology

 

IFC

International Finance Corporation

 

IMF

International Monetary Fund

 

IPPF

Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility

 

KPLC

Kenya Power and Lighting Company

 

MDB

Multilateral Development Bank

 

MDGs

Millennium Development Goals

 

MTR

Mid-Term Review

 

NEPAD

New Partnership for Africa's Development

 

OITC

AfDB's Transport and ICT Department

 

ONEC

AfDB's Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Change

 

ONRI

AfDB's The NEPAD, Regional Integration and Trade Department

 

OPSD

AfDB's Private Sector Development Department

 

OSGE

AfDB's Governance, Finance and Economic Management Department

 

OWAS

AfDB's Water and Sanitation Department

 

PCN

Project Concept Note

 

PCR

Project Completion Report

 

PPI

Private Participation in Infrastructure

 

PPP

Public Private Partnership

 

PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers

 

PRA

Project Result Assessment

 

PSO

Private Sector Operation

 

RECs

Regional Economic Communities

 

RMC

Regional Member Country

 

ROT

Rehabilirate-Operate-Transfer

 

TA

Technical Assistance

 

TYS

Ten-Year Strategy

 

UA

Unit of Account

 

UEMOA

West African Monetary and Economic Union

 

UN-DESA

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

 

USD

United States Dollars

 

WBG

World Bank Group

 

WEF

World Economic Forum

 

XSR

Expanded Supervision Report