NIGER’S INFRASTRUCTURE: A CONTINENTAL PERSPECTIVE

**Table 16. Illustrative investment targets for infrastructure in Niger**

||**Economic target**|**Social target**|
|---|---|---|
|ICT|Install fiber-optic links to neighboring capitals and<br>submarine cable.|Provide universal access to GSM signal and public<br>broadband facilities.|
|Irrigation|Develop additional 117,553 hectares of economically viable<br>small-scale irrigation.|n.a.|
|Power|Develop 206 MW interconnectors (no-trade scenario).|Increase electrification to 20 percent (100 percent urban and<br>1 percent rural).|
|Transport|Achieve regional (national) connectivity with good-quality 2-<br>lane (1-lane) paved road.|Provide rural road access to 37 percent of the highest-value<br>agricultural land, and urban road access within 500 meters.|
|WSS|n.a.|Achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), clear<br>sector rehabilitation backlog.|

_Source:_ Mayer and others 2009; Rosnes and Vennemo 2009; Carruthers, Krishnamani, and Murray 2009; You and others 2009. _Note:_ WSS = water supply and sanitation; ICT = information and communication technology; GSM = global system for mobile communications. n.a. = Not applicable.

Meeting these illustrative **Table 17. Indicative infrastructure spending needs in Niger, 2006–15** infrastructure targets for Niger $ million per year would cost $747 million per year Capital Operations and over a decade. Capital Sector expenditure maintenance Total needs expenditure would account for ICT <u>53 40 92</u> 71 percent of this requirement. Irrigation <u>64 2 66</u> Water supply and sanitation is Power (nontrade) <u>126 58 184</u> the sector with the highest Transport <u>74 66 139</u> spending needs and will require WSS <u>213 52 266</u> an estimated $266 million per Total <u>529 218 747</u> year. Power is the area with the _Source_ : Mayer and others, 2009 **;** Rosnes and Vennemo 2009; Carruthers, Krishnamani, and second-highest spending needs: Murray 2009; You and others, AICD 2009. about $184 million will be Derived from models that are available online at <u>www.infrastructureafrica.org/aicd/tools/models..</u> needed each year to meet the _Note:_ WSS = water supply and sanitation; ICT = information and communication technology Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Transport will require around $139 million per year. Last but not the least, $92 million and $66 million will be needed annually to meet demand and quality standards in the ICT and irrigation sectors, respectively (table 17).

|Sector|Capital<br>expenditure|Operations and<br>maintenance|Total needs|
|---|---|---|---|
|ICT|53|40|92|
|Irrigation|64|2|66|
|Power (nontrade)|126|58|184|
|Transport|74|66|139|
|WSS|213|52|266|
|Total|529|218|747|

_Source_ : Mayer and others, 2009 **;** Rosnes and Vennemo 2009; Carruthers, Krishnamani, and Murray 2009; You and others, AICD 2009. Derived from models that are available online at <u>www.infrastructureafrica.org/aicd/tools/models..</u> Niger’s infrastructure spending needs are in the middle of the distribution of its African peers. Niger’s burden of needs, at 22.4 percent of GDP, is lower than that of Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Congo, and Liberia (figure 19). Investment would absorb around 16 percent of its GDP, similar to what China invested in its infrastructure during the mid-2000s.

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