Infrastructure Security and Management Craft
The emerging craft in the security, management, development and investment Africa’s crucial infrastructures (both critical, physical and quality) remains vulnerable to infrastructure terrorism, destruction, sabotage and vandalism on the continent, pre and within the challenges of the pandemic. One single act of sabotage on any key targets on public utility, chemical storage facility, freight deport, shipping port and many others can have a rippling effect on Africa, post pandemic economic recovery.
Given the operating experience in developing, protecting, management and the investment in public and private sector infrastructure by practitioners in Africa, over the past decades, there has been an accompanied low cost remotely operated lethal and non-lethal weapon systems technologies gaps generating solutions to solve communities’ security, investment and management concerns. As a highlight of the ACRIS Summit, Trainings and Tours series, multi-sector personnel and professionals, including investors will be exposed to emerging design and implementation strategies, policies, legislations and harmonization protocols to be better equipped present infrastructure security and coordinating stakeholders from public and private sector institutions on develop, learn and share preparedness synergies to improve defense and management mechanism for Africa’s infrastructure, personnel and investment.
As a major step for governments supported by national and multilateral development institutions, including financers and banks is to consider the improvement in flow of constant private-sector financing and investment in commercially viable infrastructure sectors. There is no shortage of private-sector finance to infrastructure, yet investors struggle to match their funds availability against viable projects in Africa. Governments and institutional partners can take decisive action to improve commercial viability of projects and infrastructure development readiness and risk mitigation, including helping to mitigate political, currency and regulatory risks, and by increasing the deal flow of bankable projects.
