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Africa’s SEZs can be more than factories in enclaves—they can be engines of transformation. When zones link local producers and SMEs into their supply chains, the multipliers are huge: jobs, exports, fiscal revenues, and skills. The question is—can Africa scale this integration-focused model into its new industrial standard ?
Across Africa, too many public-private partnership (PPP) projects collapse before they ever reach investors, not because of a lack of ambition, but due to how feasibility is funded and governed. This article explores why over 80% of African PPPs fail to reach financial close and proposes bold, practical reforms: from tying feasibility funding to real outcomes, to creating sector-specific toolkits and a shared digital knowledge hub, like a “GitHub for PPP prep.” If we want to build bankable pipelines, we must fix the way we prepare.
