Nigeria - Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company Limited (INFRACREDIT) (AFDB-P-NG-H00-011)

Countries
  • Nigeria
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • African Development Bank (AFDB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Apr 5, 2019
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Finance
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 7.90 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Currency conversion note:
Bank reported U.A 10,976,064.86
Converted using 2019-04-05 exchange rate.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ AFDB website

Updated in EWS Jun 14, 2020

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Project Description
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The proposed project is a $15-million investment package to Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company (InfraCredit), to support infrastructure financing through the domestic debt capital markets in Nigeria. InfraCredit is a private company, established in 2016 to enhance local currency debt instruments - mainly bonds, to finance eligible infrastructure projects in Nigeria. This is intended to uplift the credit rating of such bonds, allowing institutional investors to include them in their portfolios. InfraCredit aims to support up to $1.25 billion in infrastructure financing over the next few years, by involving the private sector in infrastructure financing, essential to Nigeria's economic resilience. The investment package to InfraCredit is comprised of a subordinated loan of $10 million and a risk sharing facility of up to $5 million. The Bank's support will strengthen the capital base of InfraCredit, underpinning the expansion of the Company's core business of guaranteeing of bonds issued to fund infrastructure projects. This ultimately helps to increase private sector financing for critical infrastructure projects in key sectors including energy, agriculture, water, health and education, through local capital markets. The transaction will also result in the leverage and enhancement of the scope and impact of the Bank's interventions alongside private sector financing, especially from pension funds as well as from co-investment partners. This intervention adds to the Bank's existing initiatives to mobilize domestic institutional savings and stimulate non-sovereign local debt capital market development in Nigeria.

The investment boosts InfraCredit's qualifying capital base through the subordinated loan; it also improves its capacity to expand its guarantee business through the proposed risk sharing arrangement. This intervention will catalyze local institutional investor funds, including pension funds, into financing long-term infrastructure projects through the local bond markets.

The project activities directly promote the development of social and economic infrastructure. Improved infrastructure including more energy and better roads will generate more direct and indirect economic benefits, stimulating productivity and growth that will benefit private enterprises including SME's in the respective value chains and households. Job creation is mainly expected at the level of InfraCredit's sub-projects both during the construction and operation of the different infrastructure projects. The total number of incremental full-time equivalent jobs is estimated at 845 jobs.

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