The case study describes the N4 Toll Road Project, a brownfield toll road concession of 630 km running from Pretoria, South Africa’s administrative capital, to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique and a deep-sea port on the Indian Ocean. The project was structured as a public-private partnership (PPP) between the governments of South Africa and Mozambique and a private consortium for a 30-year period. The project is the first cross-border transport PPP project in Sub-Saharan Africa and the first brownfield PPP of this scale in South Africa.

The focus of the AICD country reports is on benchmarking sector performance and quantifying the main financing and efficiency gaps at the country level. These reports are particularly relevant to national policy makers and development partners working on specific countries.

In November 2004, IFC advised the government of Mozambique on selecting a devel- oper for the Moatize coal deposit in the Zambezi Valley. The project was intended to serve as anchor project to develop the Zambezi Valley, increase economic activity, and improve local social conditions while also contributing to the country’s income.

When the prolonged civil war in Mozambique ended in 1992, water supply infrastructure had deteriorated. In 1998, the Government adopted a comprehensive institutional reform for the development, delivery and regulation of urban water supply services in large cities. The new framework, known as the Delegated Management Framework (DMF), was inaugurated with the creation of two autonomous public bodies: an asset management agency (FIPAG) and an independent regulator (CRA).

PPIAF. 2009. Toolkit for Public-Private Partnerships in Roads and Highways: N4 Toll Road from South Africa to Mozambique. Washington, DC: Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility. [#4531]

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This report was produced by Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA) as part of a wide-ranging research programme funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that explores the factors constraining the provision of private finance to support infrastructure investment in DFID’s focus countries.

Law 15/2011 established the guidelines for the process of hiring, implementing and monitoring public-private partnerships, large-scale projects and business concessions. Decree 69/2013 approved the regulation of public-private partnerships and small business concessions.

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The purpose of the Communications Regulatory Authority-INCM is the regulation, supervision, inspection, sanctioning and representation of the postal and telecommunications sectors, as well as the management of the radio frequency spectrum and numbering.

The official website of the Mozambique Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME).

This Law concerns production, transport, supply and sale of electric power. It consists of 48 articles divided into 11 chapters and creates the National Council for Electricity, which regulates production and exploitation of electric energy. Chapter 6 specifies land use and conditions under which land expropriation shall be allowed. Chapter 7 establishes requirements to exploit electric power in order to satisfy environmental protecting measures. Chapter 9 concerns the use of rivers for hydropower generation.