The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) joined PPIAF’s Donor Council two years after the program was founded in 1999. Sida and PPIAF have identified the key role that the private sector can play to support governments in developing countries as they seek to modernize, rehabilitate, and build new infrastructure, which is required to provide basic services such as clean water, electricity, roads, ports, airports, and better telecommunications to underserved populations. The private sector not only brings capital and mobilizes resources for investments in infrastructure, but it also contributes cutting edge technologies, management best practices, professionalism and leadership, and tools to achieve efficiencies.

Sida and PPIAF share a common focus on several areas, including climate change, fragile states, and gender equality. Read more about PPIAF's collaboration with Sida in Sida and PPIAF: Working with the Private Sector [PDF].

Swedish private investment in developing countries has concentrated on telecommunications projects and in Europe and Central Asia. This note [PDF] from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Database examines investments by Swedish sponsors from 1993-2010.