The Nairobi Expressway site visit

The Nairobi Expressway is the largest road project in Kenya procured and financed through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) at a cost of 550 million US dollars. The 27km road managed by the Kenya National Highways Authority is being constructed by Cale Infrastructure Construction Company Limited and the China Road and Bridge Corporation and starts from Mlolongo to Westlands area cutting through the busy Central Business District of Nairobi.

The Kenya National Highways Authority is a state-owned corporation established under the Kenya Roads Act of 2007 that is responsible for the development, rehabilitation, management and maintenance of all national trunk roads comprising of class S, A and B roads.

Participants undertaking the training program were taken through a detailed briefing of the complex structuring of the project, the financing arrangement and some of the challenges facing the implementation and financing of the project. Later on, the participants toured the different sites of project so as to appreciate the technology being utilized to fast track the project.

The visit was followed by an internal discussion of the project giving the participants a chance to discuss other ways the project could have been structured and how the contracting authority and the Special Purpose Vehicle could address some of the key challenges facing the project.

The visit enabled the participants to explore first hand some of the key issues involved in the structuring, financing and implementation of PPP projects.

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