Current operations target constraints to growth (energy - Ghana; transit corridors - Rwanda, micro-finance in Madagascar), hard to reach MDGs (water supply - Mozambique and Malawi; under-five morality - Sierra Leone, and HIV/AIDS - Horn of Africa), and regional integration (regional cooperation in the Horn of Africa and strengthening a regional body, connectivity to transit corridors in Rwanda). The seven ACGF projects have total projected disbursements of $188 million. Two projects for Guinea - mining and employment, and Mauritania - transit corridors, have recently been approved for $35 million and are under preparation.

Early Results

Operations are just entering implementation. Examples of early results of ACGF operations include the following: (a) 12 local governments in Sierra Leone have developed action plans for under five mortality and identified funding gaps for high impact interventions (such as vaccines, chlorination for water, training of health care workers); (b) an on-going water project in Mozambique has installed connections in towns which will be completed with ACGF funds and scaled up; (c) Ministers of countries in the Horn of Africa have identified institutional arrangements and endorsed a regional approach for HIV/AIDS; and (d) tariff adjustments proposed by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission were effected by the Government of Ghana.