Economic Community of West African States

<p>The AXIS Project aims to facilitate the development of an African internet infrastructure through policy and regulatory reform, capacity building and technical assistance. Development of an African internet infrastructure refers to the establishment of regional internet exchange points (IXPs) and internet carriers.</p>

<p>The AXIS Project is being implemented through two phases. Phase I consists of capacity building to support the establishment of national IXPs through providing a series of two workshops for stakeholders and the Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) on  I) best practice and benefits of IXP and II) technical assistance through workshops which will cover the technical and administrative skills needed to set up, operate, and administer an IXP.</p>

<p>Phase II focuses on supporting establishment of Regional IXP and Regional Internet Carrier through provisioning Capacity building workshops on best practice and benefits of setting up RIXP/IC and providing technical assistance.</p>

<p>The AXIS Project is a flagship project of the African Regional Action Plan on Knowledge Economy (ARAPKE) endorsed by the African Union Executive Council. </p>

<p>The Government of Liberia"’s development goals for ICT and Telecommunications are to modernize networks and create added value through the effective utilization of ICTs that make use of different technology solutions. Through this policy agenda and recognizing the essential social and economic potentials of broadband connectivity, the Government of Liberia including its development partners and local industry players facilitated Liberia"’s connection to the global community through the ACE Communication Network.  </p>

<p>Liberia has since 2013 had access to broadband interconnection to the rest of the world via ACE. However, this connectivity does not extend outside the capital, Monrovia, since service providers transmission links does not have the necessary capacity required for broadband services.</p>

<p>The proposed development of a National ICT Backbone is a key initiative expected to provide the necessary connectivity infrastructure which will carry the volume of data traffic that is projected in the coming years and increase the diffusion of broadband access in order to reap the development benefits.</p>

<p>Construction of a dam and hydroelectric plant of 90 MW on the Niandan River in Guinea with a reservoir of about 5 billion m3 of water.</p>

<p>The project has two components, namely:<br />
- Strengthen the institutional and financial capacity of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) to sustainably fulfill its basic mandate; and<br />
- Facilitate evidence-based decision-making in the process of preparing Fomi&#39;s multipurpose dams and in parallel strengthening of ABN&#39;s capabilities through its direct involvement in this complex project.</p>

<p>The Fomi Dam initiative has been continued in two related projects:<br />
First, an APL-1 project on water resources development and sustainable ecosystem management (WRD SEM) funded by the World Bank (P093806) and secondly, the Niger River Basin Management Project. It is unclear if the APL-1 project is still active through a follow-up phase which might likely be named APL-2.<br />
The Niger River Basin Management Project was approved for CIWA funding in November 2014 and aims to strengthen the NBA&#39;s capacity to prepare for Fomi in two phases, namely:<br />
a) facilitate dialogue between stakeholders in Guinea, Mali and the NBA to develop a roadmap on how to proceed with the preparation of the Fomi dam project; and<br />
b) Complementary studies to the main preparatory studies supported by WRD SEM (APL-1).</p>

<p>Construction of Elubo/Noe One-Stop Border Post (Cote d&#39;Ivoire and Ghana). The OSBP lies on the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor. OSBP type: juxtaposed.</p>

<p>Upgrading of the Mali section of the 1,228 km railway to standard gauge between the border with Senegal and Bamako in Mali.</p>