EAIF intends to make a real and lasting impact on the development of sub-Saharan Africa’s infrastructure to facilitate economic growth and so, both directly and indirectly over time, contribute to the alleviation of poverty in the region. More specifically, the Fund has the following objectives:

• To address the scarcity of long term debt for significant private sector-based infrastructure development through the provision of long term debt finance that can be tailored to suit the typically longer term nature of cash flow profiles arising in infrastructure.
• To be responsive to market needs by working with all participants (host governments, private sector sponsors and non-governmental organisations alike) to create appropriate financing solutions to meet the challenges of private sector financing in the region, including where possible and appropriate the facilitation of local capital market involvement.
• To ensure as far as possible that all activity receiving support from the Fund conforms to internationally acceptable environmental and social impact standards.
• To operate on private sector commercial principles and so demonstrate the viability of long-term commercial lending into sub-Saharan Africa.
• To increase the size of EAIF and its effectiveness through the additional leverage of further donor money to attract new private sector capital that would otherwise be unlikely to be made available to the region.