Africa

Two-thirds of MCC’s portfolio are investments in African partner countries who have demonstrated their commitment to good governance, democratic values and investing in their people. MCC is playing a leading role in helping countries seize new economic opportunities and fight poverty.

Since its founding in 2004, MCC has invested over $10 billion in programs in 24 countries across Africa. MCC’s Africa portfolio is largely composed of large-scale infrastructure projects that have delivered clean water and sanitation to help fight disease, made transportation more efficient through construction of hundreds of kilometers of roads, improved agriculture yields by bringing irrigation to farmers, and increased access to reliable electricity for households and businesses.

The AGOA and MCA Modernization Act authorized MCC to enter into Regional Compacts. Regional Compacts are MCC’s approach to tackling large scale, regional economic barriers to cross-border trade and investment challenges. Often Regional Compacts have multiple countries working concurrently, using regional analytics, organizations and private sector data to identify how and where an MCC grant can have the largest transformation for multiple economies. This expands MCC’s ability to deploy its innovative model on projects within MCC partner countries and across borders, thereby enhancing MCC’s poverty reduction, security, and stability impacts.

MCC’s investments and partnerships have:

• benefited an estimated 154 million Africans,
• improved the yields of over 70,616 African farmers,
• educated 255,523 African students,
• contributed over 26 million megawatt-hours of electricity supply to Africans, and
• guaranteed over 305,000 African households and businesses have legal rights and protections over their land.