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Devex
Article date
Thu, Aug 3, 2017
The list of top contractors to the African Development Bank has included no NGOs for the past 16 years, according to analysis by Devex identifying the bank’s top 10 contractors each year between 2000 and 2016.
As can be seen in our visualization of AfDB awards to its top NGO contractors, there were 39 awards during these years, worth just under $65.4 million dollars in total.
The paucity of NGOs among top AfDB awardees could be due to the bank’s own sectoral priorities: More than 60 percent of AfDB funding over the last 16 years has gone to transport and energy infrastructure projects. These have often involved large-scale works requiring funding and resources that only the largest engineering or construction firms were equipped to provide.