African Mining Legislation Atlas (AMLA): The ALSF has developed a compendium of African mining laws and a guiding template (https://www.a-mla.org) for revising or drafting laws that promote good governance, including model clauses on anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, and anti-transfer pricing.

ResourcesContracts: The ALSF has been supporting the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in developing a website (www.resourcescontracts.org) with a growing collection of publicly available mining, oil and gas contracts that seeks to help resource-rich countries maximize public access to and better comprehension of their natural resource contracts, as well as to improve contract transparency and accountability.

Public-Private-Partnership Legal Resource Center (PPPLRC): The ALSF has been supporting the World Bank’s PPPLRC (https://ppp.worldbank.org/public-private-partnership/) to carry out knowledge management activities in the area of PPPs. The PPP LRC provides easy access to an array of sample legal materials which can assist in the planning, design and legal structuring of any infrastructure project — especially a project which involves a public-private partnership (PPP). It is organized in two broad categories: (i) guidance on structuring a PPP project and its enabling environment and (ii) sector specific information.

PPP Legislation Database: The ALSF developed PPP country profiles, which describe the PPP legal and institutional framework in African countries. Each snapshot features a summary of the key components of the PPP legal framework in a given country, including definition of PPP, key principles, institutional framework, procurement and approvals process, rights and obligations of each party, applicable law and disputes resolution, which allow the reader to gain a quick understanding of the basic PPP legal framework. The snapshots provide cross-referencing to the specific sections of the law for further information, and are available in English and French.

Understanding Power Sector Series: The ALSF partnered with U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) and other institutions to develop the Understanding Power handbooks series that African government officials are now using when negotiating project finance deals (PPP country profiles). This series includes the following handbooks:

• Understanding Power Purchase Agreements
• Understanding Power Project Financing
• Understanding Power Project Procurement

ALSF Academy: The ALSF Academy is the ALSF’s umbrella capacity building initiative. It is a 3-levels certification program in sovereign debt, mining, oil & gas, power, infrastructure & public-private partnerships (PPPs) and in cross-sectoral subjects (Personal & professional development (Level 1); Investment dispute resolution (Level 2); Governance, risk management and compliance (Level 3). The ALSF Academy Portal (https://alsf.academy/) was launched in October 2019. The Portal offers a range of online capacity building e-training courses and related resources, such as course handbooks. The objectives of the ALSF Academy are to enhance ability of African governments to negotiate and implement fair and balanced commercial transactions; increase awareness and understanding of complex commercial transaction negotiation processes among African legal professionals and other non-legal government officials; strengthen capacity of African legal and other non-legal government officials in Africa to better advise governments in litigation and negotiations; and increased transfer of knowledge and skills to African legal professionals and government officials related to litigation and complex commercial transactions.