PPP Consultants
AFRICA
Specialist infrastructure advisory, with African working knowledge.
PPP Consultants advises on Public Private Partnership and large-infrastructure projects across southern Africa — for the authorities commissioning them, and for the international developers and contractors entering the market. Established in the region, with a Walvis Bay office and Namibian incorporation within the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
Working on both sides of the African market.
FOR AFRICAN AUTHORITIES
FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPERS & CONTRACTORS
PPP Consultants advises on Public Private Partnership and large-infrastructure projects across southern Africa — for the authorities commissioning them, and for the international developers and contractors entering the market.
Established in the region, with a Walvis Bay office and Namibian incorporation within the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
“Local knowledge. Faster procurement.”
For international developers and contractors entering African infrastructure markets, the firm offers on-the-ground commercial judgement, established working relationships with government ministries and parastatals, and access to the regional lending community.
The firm’s Chief Executive has been resident in Namibia for over eighteen years.
Established within SACU — Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini — with a Walvis Bay office and Namibian incorporation, and working across southern Africa and the wider SADC region.
Africa’s potential.
Southern Africa is changing what it does with its resources — processing minerals rather than exporting them raw, generating and beginning to export energy, and re-routing trade through new corridors and ports.
That shift is the infrastructure pipeline. Each sector below is large, financeable and moving now, and each turns on the same disciplines: credible structure, clear risk allocation and competitive finance.
Oil and gas — upstream and downstream.
A new oil province is being built almost from a standing start — and the industry around it barely exists yet.
Namibia’s Orange Basin holds the largest sub-Saharan discoveries in a generation: the Venus find is estimated at around 5 billion barrels and the Mopane complex at some 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent. A final investment decision is expected in 2026 and first oil production by the end of 2023, with early production planned through a vessel rated at roughly 150,000 barrels a day.
The opportunity reaches well beyond the wellhead — subsea systems, gas-to-power, storage, supply bases and a service-and-logistics economy must all be built. Downstream, Namibia has no refining capacity of its own and imports virtually all of its refined fuel, much of it through Walvis Bay — and the prospect of domestic production is reviving long-standing interest in refining, storage and distribution.
The commercial environment is young: licensing terms, fiscal regimes and local-content rules are still being set. For international operators and service companies, the early positions are the ones that count.
The downstream potential in southern Africa is colossal - for those companies and investors who have the vision to enter the market within the next year.
HOW PPP CONSULTANTS ASSISTS
PPP Consultants works with operators, service companies and downstream developers entering a regime that is still taking shape.
We support host-government and regulator engagement, the structuring of licence and fiscal terms, joint-venture and local-content formation, and the debt and equity behind midstream and downstream assets. The firm is incorporated in Namibia, with a Walvis Bay base close to where this activity is forming.
Mining and processing.
The value is moving onshore — from exporting ore to processing it in the region.
Namibia anchors the firm’s mining work and is a mineral ground in its own right — the world’s third-largest uranium producer, around 6,800 tonnes in 2024, now opening new fronts in lithium at Uis and heavy rare earths at Lofdal.
In 2025 it went further than its neighbours, banning the export of several unprocessed critical minerals to force processing and value-addition onshore. From that base the wider region adds depth: the copper and cobalt of the Zambian and Congolese Copperbelt — where Zambia alone is targeting three million tonnes of copper a year by 2031, against around 890,000 tonnes in 2025 — together with South African platinum-group metals and Botswana diamonds.
Demand across all of it is structural, driven by the energy transition rather than the cycle, and the defining shift is the same everywhere: from extraction to in-country processing and beneficiation, opening a pipeline of processing plant, smelters, and the power, water and logistics that serve them.
For mining houses and processors, the constraints are familiar: concession negotiation, relationships with ministries and state enterprises, co-dependence on power and water, and the finance to build processing capacity at scale.
HOW PPP CONSULTANTS ASSISTS
PPP Consultants advises on projects from mine to market: concession negotiation with ministries, parastatals and state enterprises; bankable models for beneficiation and processing plant; risk allocation that lenders can rely on; and the raising of debt and equity.
EPC procurement for processing and associated infrastructure is run under FIDIC and documented to the host authority’s evaluation criteria.
Energy infrastructure.
Namibia is building an energy-export industry from scratch, while the wider region races to fix the power it lacks.
Namibia is positioning itself as a green-energy exporter.
The flagship green-hydrogen and green-ammonia programme on its southern coast carries an estimated capital cost of around 9 to 10 billion US dollars and targets some 300,000 tonnes of hydrogen and up to 2 million tonnes of green ammonia a year for export, with a final investment decision expected in next few years; the Orange Basin discoveries add the prospect of domestic gas-to-power.
Across the wider region, South Africa is reforming its electricity market and opening generation and transmission to private capital after years of supply deficit, while renewable independent-power programmes and a regional power pool draw developers in.
Together it is a build-out — generation, grid and new-energy export — that will run for years.
The capital intensity is high, and the structures are demanding power-purchase agreements, concessions, and the debt and equity behind plant that must stay bankable across decades.
HOW PPP CONSULTANTS ASSISTS
PPP Consultants supports developers bidding into power-procurement programmes, and authorities designing them — power-purchase agreements, output specifications and risk allocation, and the financing of generation, transmission and hydrogen-and-ammonia export projects. Risk modelling and lifecycle costing are prepared to a standard that lenders require.
Transport infrastructure.
Where minerals reach the sea is being rewritten — and new corridors are winning the traffic.
From Walvis Bay, Namibia’s port-and-corridor network gives landlocked southern Africa a direct, competitive route to the Atlantic — with dry ports, road and rail links and modernised border crossings reaching into Botswana, Zambia and beyond.
As established routes strain and competing Atlantic corridors open, demand for reliable western capacity is rising and drawing serious international investment. The need is substantial: rail rehabilitation, corridor roads, inland terminals and the cross-border systems that let minerals and goods move quickly and at competitive cost.
Corridor and rail projects are among the most demanding in infrastructure — multi-jurisdiction, concession-based, and reliant on patient, well-structured finance.
HOW PPP CONSULTANTS ASSISTS
PPP Consultants advises developers and authorities on corridor and rail structuring — concession and availability-payment design, cross-border risk allocation, and the financial structuring behind it — and raises debt and equity for projects with a credible structure. The firm has a Walvis Bay presence and working relationships across regional transport ministries and parastatals.
Port infrastructure.
Namibia is building the ports its new energy economy needs — and the capacity is arriving now.
Namibia’s ports are expanding fast to serve the country’s emerging oil-and-gas and green-energy economy.
At Lüderitz, cargo-handling capacity is set to roughly double — from three to six million tonnes a year in the near future — alongside a new oil-and-gas supply base costed at over four billion Namibian dollars and a multi-user terminal designed to handle green-ammonia export, with a deeper-water section planned beyond.
At Walvis Bay, a port master plan could more than double capacity and unlock investment of up to ten billion Namibian dollars.
This is one of the most significant port build-outs on the continent’s west coast, and much of it is coming to market now.
For contractors, terminal operators and investors, the opportunity spans quay walls and land reclamation, supply bases, multi-user and energy-export terminals, and the concessions and operating arrangements behind them — work being defined now, as Namibia’s offshore discoveries move toward development.
HOW PPP CONSULTANTS ASSISTS
PPP Consultants works on both sides of port and terminal development: concessions, output specifications and payment-and-risk mechanisms for the authority and its port company; bid documentation, financial models and finance for contractors, operators and investors.
The firm knows Walvis Bay and Lüderitz at first hand and raises senior debt and equity across its capital pools.
Water infrastructure.
In one of the world’s most arid countries, water is the least discretionary investment there is.
Namibia is one of the most arid countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and has long had to engineer its way to water security — Windhoek has reclaimed wastewater for drinking since 1968, the first city in the world to do so. Large-scale desalination, by contrast, has yet to be developed as a national water source.
A major coastal desalination scheme would be one of the most consequential pieces of infrastructure the country could undertake. Across the wider SACU region, ambition is already at that scale — the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II, a roughly 40-billion-rand scheme, lifting water transfer to South Africa from about 780 million to 1.27 billion cubic metres a year, with delivery targeted for 2029. Beneath the headline projects lies a deep regional deficit in storage, treatment, distribution, reuse and sanitation.
HOW PPP CONSULTANTS ASSISTS
PPP Consultants designs output specifications and payment mechanisms for authorities, structures concessions for developers, allocates lifecycle and demand risk, and raises finance.
The firm’s lifecycle-cost experience across jurisdictions supports water plans that lenders will fund.
Regional capital access.
The firm raises and structures finance for African infrastructure across a range of sources. The wording is categorical; no institution is named.
MULTILATERAL
Regional multilateral facilities for infrastructure projects with development-objective structures
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE
Development finance institutions across the region, for projects meeting bankable structure and impact criteria.
SOVEREIGN & COMMERCIAL
CONCESSIONAL & GRANT
Sovereign-backed facilities and regional commercial bank capacity for infrastructure project finance.
Grant and concessional capital for projects with the structure to attract development-objective funding.
Market view 2026 — southern Africa.
Southern Africa’s infrastructure pipeline is widening. New oil and gas off Namibia, a deepening critical-minerals economy, and competition between coastal trade corridors are drawing international capital into the region at a pace not seen for some years. PPP Consultants believe that long - term disruption and doubt about Middle - Eastern regional stability, going forward, adds to the value of energy supplies coming from southern Africa.
Governments are accelerating Public Private Partnership procurement, and capital — multilateral, development-finance, sovereign and commercial — is available for projects that present a bankable structure. Where established routes to market strain, alternative corridors and ports are attracting investment.
The firm’s view is that structure determines outcome. Projects that present credible structure, defensible commercial assumptions and clear risk allocation attract the most competitive terms — in southern Africa as anywhere.
From first conversation to close
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First conversation
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Analysis
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Engagement letter
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Partner-led delivery
A direct, partner-led conversation under commercial confidentiality to understand the project and what you need.
We assess the project's commercial structure, risk allocation and bankability, and define where we add value.
A clear scope and terms — from a single deliverable to full Project Director responsibility through to Financial Close.
Senior partners lead the work throughout, from mandate to close.
The first conversation.
Every first conversation is partner-led and conducted under commercial confidentiality. We set out, with you, how PPP Consultants will deliver the outcomes you require.
