The challenges facing Sierra Leone’s public infrastructure are well documented. By some assessments, addressing them will require a sustained expenditure of $258– 478 million per year (Sierra Leone’s Infrastructure: A Continental Perspective, Nataliya Pushak and Vivien Foster, 2011). Based on that figure, we have an estimated annual funding gap of $58 to $278 million per year, most of it associated with water, power transport and agriculture. To address this the Government h

Driven by the need for long-term investment in public infrastructure allied to tight government budgets and Margaret Thatcher’s free market economics, the UK government began to explore avenues of co-production of public services with the private sector in the early 1990s. PFI, as it was called in the UK (Private Financing Initiative) spread quickly across sectors and took various forms, depending on the exact role that each project assigned to the private and public sectors.