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# Priority Areas

OFFICE OF THE U.S. SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR THE PARTNERSHIP FOR GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND INVESTMENT

**Economic Corridor Approach:** PGI focuses on developing economic corridors – geographic areas with integrated investments that are designed to stimulate economic development. Geographically connected, these investments in transportation, clean energy supply chains, information and communications technology, agricultural systems, or health and health security leverage broader and more transformative effects, with the aim of significantly boosting economic development opportunities.

At the 2023 G7 Summit, President Biden announced U.S. support for development of the **Lobito Corridor**, which has the potential to become a transformative economic link connecting the African continent from west to east. This commitment would develop rail that would become the primary open access transportation infrastructure connecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Zambia and Angola. To date, the United States has announced the intent to finance through the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) an initial $250 million investment in a rail refurbishment from the Lobito Port in Angola to the border of the DRC in Luau. As a second phase, we will expand the rail connectivity in the region, both enabling investment in an under-developed agro-ecological zone to support global food security and securing an open access trade route for critical minerals to support the accelerated global demand for electric vehicles and other climate-forward technology.

## Transportation

Investments in creating and strengthening economic corridors that connect economies through key transportation infrastructure.

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is currently performing due diligence for a potential financing package of $250 million to finance the Lobito Atlantic Railway Corridor. This deal would be the DFC’s first investment in rail on the continent. The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGI) is actively pursuing opportunities to connect the corridor across the continent ultimately, to the Indian Ocean, and promote investments in agriculture, health, digital infrastructure, and access to clean energy along the route.

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## Clean Energy Supply Chains

Investments in clean energy and climate resilient infrastructure. This includes developing clean energy supply chains across the full integrated lifecycle, consisting of the responsible and sustainable mining of metals and minerals, low-emissions transportation and hard infrastructure, investing in new global refining, processing and battery manufacturing sites, promoting diversity across the full critical minerals value chain, and deploying proven, as well as innovative, scalable technologies in places that do not yet have access to clean energy.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (U.S. EXIM) is providing an initial $900 million in financing for two solar projects that were announced at the 2022 G7 Summit by the Government of Angola, U.S. firm AfricaGlobal Schaffer, and U.S. project developer Sun Africa. Together, the projects will generate over 500 megawatts of renewable power; provide access to clean energy resources across Angola; help Angola meet its climate commitments; and support exports of U.S. solar panels, connectors, switches, sensors, and other equipment.

The United States facilitated a strategic partnership between Life Zone Metals and TechMet, a leading critical minerals company supported by a DFC equity investment. During the Vice President’s trip, Life Zone Metals announced a Framework Agreement with the Tanzanian Government to open a new multi-metals processing facility that will use innovative, low-emission technology to process nickel and other critical minerals mined in Tanzania, targeting delivery of battery grade nickel to the global market as soon as 2026. The partnership will also work to identify additional opportunities across the region for critical mineral inputs to the new facility. These efforts are aimed at building and expanding resilient, transparent supply chains for clean energy technology that are based on extensive local engagement, respect for the environment and conservation, and safe, high-integrity labor practices.

Since launching the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) at the 2022 G20 Summit, the United States announced a joint U.S.-Indonesia partnership to support Indonesia as a first mover in the region on SMR deployment in ASEAN markets, using safe and secure American technology from U.S. company NuScale Power.

Building on previous U.S. Government support to develop Romania’s first-of-a-kind SMR plant using U.S. firm NuScale Power technology and Fluor Corporation engineering and construction services. When built, the SMR will pave the way for new innovative energy technologies, accelerate the clean energy transition, create thousands of jobs, and strengthen European energy security while upholding the highest standards for nuclear safety, security, and nonproliferation.

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## Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Investments in developing, expanding, and deploying secure information and communications technology (ICT) network and infrastructure to power economic growth and facilitate open digital societies – from working with trusted suppliers to provide 5G and 6G digital connectivity, to piloting Open Radio Access Network technology in critical countries, to supporting access to platforms and services that depend upon an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable internet and mobile networks with sound cybersecurity.

The DFC is providing a $300 million loan for Africa Data Centers (ADCs), Africa’s largest network of interconnected data facilities, to construct a first-of-its kind data center in Ghana. This investment builds on the Vice President’s recent trip to Ghana and will increase access to cloud-based technologies, bring down the cost of internet, and make the continent a more competitive destination for industry.

The Department of State is providing approximately $25 million in funding to strengthen Costa Rica’s cyber defense capabilities, including training operations, hardware, software and long-term capacity building. USTDA is providing technical assistance to the Costa Rican Electricity Institute to develop a monitoring and diagnostic system to enhance the utility’s management of its power generation, transmission, and distribution assets. U.S. EXIM has issued a letter of interest to provide financing to support the Costa Rican Electricity Institute’s 5G development.

U.S. telecommunications company SubCom (Eatontown, NJ), awarded a $600 million contract, to build the Southeast Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 6 submarine telecommunications cable that will connect Singapore to France through Egypt and the Horn of Africa. The submarine cable will stretch over 17,000 km and connect countries across the region with high-speed, reliable connectivity. The U.S. Government, including through the U.S. Department of State, Commerce’s Advocacy Center, EXIM, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA) commitment of nearly $4 million in additional capacity building to support five countries using SubCom’s technology, collectively helped secure the award of the construction and deployment of the undersea fiber optic cable for SubCom.

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## Agricultural Systems

The world is facing a global food security crisis. Climate change is also crippling global agricultural production and increasing the frequency and severity of climatic shocks impacting food systems, including an unprecedented drought in the Horn of Africa. To effectively build resilient food systems that are better able to withstand future shocks as well as spur inclusive, regional and interregional economic growth, PGI supports investments in catalytic agriculture-related infrastructure alongside the U.S. Government’s development assistance support for food security and agriculture.

DFC committed $150 million to Yilport Terminal Operations to expand and modernize the Puerto Bolívar container port in Ecuador. The port sits near Ecuador’s major agricultural zones that produce over 50 percent of the country’s total agricultural output and employ nearly 10 percent of the population. Port expansion and supporting investment in cold storage will enhance Ecuador’s agricultural sector, diversify and strengthen global food security, and sustain and create local jobs. It is also projected to catalyze up to $750 million of additional investment.

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## Health and Health Security

Investments that develop and upgrade health systems infrastructure and contribute to global health security including through accessible patient-centered health services, vaccine and essential medical product manufacturing, disease surveillance and early warning systems, and safe and secure labs.

In collaboration with G7 members as well as the European Union and multilateral organizations, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is disbursing a $3.3 million technical assistance grant to Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) for early-stage project development of an industrial-scale flexible multi-vaccine manufacturing facility in Senegal with potential annual capacity of millions of doses of COVID-19 and other vaccines, potentially using both viral vector and mRNA technologies. DFC’s grant is part of a $14 million grant financing package that also includes $3.3 million from the International Finance Corporation, $2 million from the Agence Française de Développement, and $5.2 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB). DFC, along with other development finance institutions, is currently evaluating a loan to support IPD’s expansion to supplement EIB’s recent announcement of a nearly $80 million sovereign loan financing package.

ABD group (Philadelphia, PA), a project development company, was awarded a $320 million healthcare infrastructure project to renovate or construct over 100 hospitals and clinics across Côte d’Ivoire and has already begun work on 10 locations. ABD Group credits the Memorandum of Understanding for commercial cooperation between the U.S. Government and the Government of Côte d’Ivoire with providing the necessary foundation of partnership for this deal to come to fruition. With the support of Commerce, the project has already received $160 million in closed financing with another $160 million nearing completion.

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