Emilio Bunge

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Engineering Africa! Leveraging the
International Financial Organizations
Emilio Bunge Development Finance International,
Inc. 6 March 2007
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• There is more money than good projects
• Diane Willkens

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Development Finance International, Inc.
Schuman Associates DFI Partner
EU funding and policy
DFI 19 employees globally Multinational Multidisci
pline Unique sector, agency, and procurement
experience
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Innovation and development
Entrepreneurship, formalization of SMEs and / or
investment promotion? 9 Bn in Telcos OG and
biofuels Mining Agriculture
Do we need to look more at the incentives of each
stakeholder?
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MDB Lending 50 B - FY 2006
World Bank Regionals (eg AfDB)
IFC

MDB Goal Improve Social Economic Conditions
through (1) loans / grants and (2) TAs and TCs
AfDB numbers from FY03source Annual Reports
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Geographic RD
TUNISIA

MOROCCO
ALGERIA
WESTERN
LIBYA
EGYPT
SAHARA
Red
Sea
MAURITANIA
MALI
NIGER
ERITREA
SENEGAL
CHAD
SUDAN
DJIBOUTI
BURKINA
GUINEA
GUINEA
BISSAU
BENIN
NIGERIA
TOGO
ETHIOPIA
COTE
CENTRAL
SIERRA
DTVOIRE

• Nigeria 5 Bn ST Fund w/ support from UNESCO for
  NSF Political Will !!!
• Education, ST WB (150 M), AfDB (Virtual
  Universities, 7.4 M and Technical Schools 45
  M), DFID (HE initiative 15 M), USAID (HED 50
  M), PHEA (200 M)
• Infrastructure 2.2 Bn from WB alone (18
  projects) FDI

AFRICAN
LEONE
GHANA
REPUBLIC
LIBERIA
CAMEROON
SOMALIA
DEMOCRATIC
UGANDA
EQUATORIAL
REP. OF
REPUBLIC
GUINEA
THE
OF THE CONGO
GABON
KENYA
CONGO
(ZAIRE)
RWANDA
BURUNDI
TANZANIA
ANGOLA
ANGOLA
ZAMBIA
MOZAMBIQUE
MADAGASCAR
ZIMBABWE
NAMIBIA
SOUTH AFRICA
BOTSWANA
Walvis Bay
SWAZILAND
LESOTHO
SOUTH
AFRICA
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Across the Value Chain

• Tech. Higher ED
• Curriculum Innovation
• Capacity Building / e-learning
• Labor Market Observatory

HHRR
SYSTEM
FIN ACT
Macro-Situation Govt Policies NGOs

• ST Loans / Grants
• Competitive funding
• Researchers in Industry
• Labs Equipment

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Nigeria ST Education Post Basic Level (STEPB)
- WB - 150 M

• Support Nigeria in improving the quality and
  relevance of ST programs
• offered and increasing access for disadvantaged
  target groups (rural and
• female students) establish effective PPPs for
  ST related programs
• between Academia Industry, tailored to labor
  market demands.

Engineering Africa
Potential Opportunities

• Component 1 (81 M) Competitive funds for (i)
  joint research (ii) Centers of Excellence and
  (iii) ICT connectivity and e-learning
• Component 2 TA for PBE management including (i)
  National Vocational Qualification Framework (ii)
  LMO (iii) awareness and PR (iv) curriculum
  enhancement (v) support to institutions (NUC,
  NBTE, NCCE, other)
• Component 3 Seed funds for AIST (AfDB as well)

Engage early on work w/ multiple stakeholders
to create joint projects and proposals
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Open, Distance and eLearning (ODeL) through the
Africa Virtual University (AVU) AfDB - 7.4 M

• Assist in establishing Open, Distance and
  eLearning (ODeL) capacity
• development centers through AVU partner
  institutions.  Goals include
• support for teacher training, provision of
  connectivity services, and
• development programs to mainstream gender issues. 

Engineering Africa
Potential Opportunities
Mainstream ICT and integrate it into the classroom

• Partner between academia and industry to join the
  AVU ODeL and provide specific trainings,
  workshops and seminars (PHEA is also supporting
  this project)

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Nigeria Skills Training and Vocational Education
AfDB - 45 M

• The project will support Secondary Education and
  Vocational Training as
• well as limited support to tertiary institutions
  to enhance high-level skills
• of human resources for economic development

Engineering Africa
Potential Opportunities

• Improving access to skills training and
  vocational education create pipeline for
  university degrees focusing on minorities (women,
  rural) Mentor Net
• Enhancing quality and efficiency of skills
  training and vocational education (work w/
  secondary education and higher education
  institutions)
• Strengthening public-private partnerships (eg.
  CAT, articulate industry needs / content for
  shorter courses on employable skills)

Look at the continuum for technical labor force
and education
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Higher Education for Development (HED) program
University of Iowa NUC 100 K grant 130 K
cost share

• The partnership trained 345 Nigerians (68 W) in
  computer support, web
• design, DB design, network and general ICT,
  through annual 10-12 week
• computer-based courses, and 1-week, in-country
  intensive training
• classes. Private sector contributions included
  more than 650 Pentium PC
• sw training packages, a courseware library. An
  unanticipated S-S
• collaboration developed when the University of
  Jos (UJ) sent technicians
• to Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) to learn
  about wireless networking
• while OAU sent their technicians to UJ to learn
  about fiber optic networks.
• OAU has recently signed a contract to manufacture
  computers for UJ.

Engineering Africa
Potential Opportunities

• Identify current appetite and focus areas for HED
  and at USAID local office to work with Nigeria dn
  the Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  (HBCUs)
• Involve industry and other partners (eg. MSFT,
  Red-Hat, Kirkwood CC Iowa State Univ., 3-Com
  LearnKey EZ-Ref Customized Courseware)

Design small pilots that can be mainstreamed and
replicated
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Opportunity for HE to tackle global poverty UKs
DFID - 15 M - 25 countries - 15-50 K grants

• Nigerias HE institutes are eligible to compete
  for project funds to combat
• global poverty. The initiative encourages
  partnerships between academic
• institutes in the UK and emerging countries
  research and capability while
• promoting ST and basic health and education
  services by 2015

Engineering Africa
Potential Opportunities

• Understand appetite for infrastructure related
  projects and other Nigerias engineering
  priorities to work w/ DFID
• Leverage private sector monies and networks to
  reach out to UK universities and develop stronger
  partnerships

Capitalize on funding to focus on
poverty-engineering related issues
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Partnership for Higher Education (PHEA) - 10
countries Multiple projects 200 M - 5 yrs
6 Foundations

• Provision of broadband and use of ICT to improve
  access to information
• and production of knowledge in African
  universities development of
• RD on HE innovations, institutional
  transformation, and universities
• contribution to development support to regional
  networks for
• research and training and a university
  leadership forum to expose
• academic leaders and policymakers to relevant ST
  innovation

Engineering Africa
Potential Opportunities
Increase and enhance Africas universities role
in the knowledge economy in their countries

• Leverage flexibility and resources of key NGOs to
  form multi-stakeholders partnerships with
  academia, industry, government

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Project Template

• Objective
• Description
• Benefits
• Key participants / partners
• Budget and Sustainability
• ME

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Project Template Connexions Latin America (CLA)
Objective CLA intends to develop a community of
contributors for Spanish and Portuguese modules
of engineering courses (content and education).
Description Connexions (CNX) is a modular
curriculum design Framework currently under
implementation for engineering course content and
education. CNX surpassed MIT's Open Courseware as
the most used curriculum source. CNX is focused
on developing a community of contributors from
Latin America of Spanish and Portuguese modules
(CLA). Activities (i) 5 Workshops and
Training sessions in different LAC countries (ii)
CLA Gateway for technical support and ongoing
questions (iii) CLA Competition to create
excitement and buzzword Benefits pilot will
impact 50 Engineering Schools, 2,500 faculty and
50 K students. It will also provide reduced
publishing time, access to local content,
opportunities to use printing idle capacity,
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Project Template Connexions Latin America (CLA)

• Key participants / partners Connexions
  Universidad El Paso Hewlett Packard other
  industry 1-3 local universities in each selected
  country (one is Executing Agency)
• Budget 400 K (Sustainability built-in)
• Workshops and Training 5 workshops _at_ 50 K each
  250 K
• Gateway 3 students for 2 years _at_ 15 K each
  exp. _at_ 30 K 120 K
• Prices for CLA Competition _at_ 10 K each 30 K

ME In time, budget, results vs. objectives,
financial and procurement procedures
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Some initial ideas mentioned yesterday

• Job creation
• Labor Market Observatory (get hard core data)
  Futuro Laboral
• Start up and acceleration of TBE (Diaspora)
  Abuja Tech Village
• Set up technology transfer offices in
  Universities
• Career fairs and career management offices
  Placement - Alumni
• Education Enhancement
• University Consortia for curriculum enhancement
• Lab enhancements
• Joint research projects (Diaspora UNESCO-HP) -
  WB
• Visiting Industry Faculty Industry Sabbaticals
  for Professors
• Attraction and retention of students (gender,
  mentoring, other)
• Industry tours Hands-on Orientation weeks
  Engineering 101
• Accreditation
• Consolidation (Seek international / regional
  standards for comparison and portability)
• Involve industry in the process (evaluators,
  standard setting)

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Engineering Africa can start in Nigeria!

• EFTA and many other models and that can be
  tested and replicated in Nigeria / Africa
• Engineering Africa has an opportunity to play a
  strategic leadership role in socio-economic
  development in the region

• External funding is available now stakeholders
  do not need to do this alone
• Combined capabilities in ICT, Ed, ST, PSD, for
  example, fit important needs in key development
  areas

There is more money than good projects, but it
takes two to tango, and many to have a party