Faced with ever-increasing infrastructure and construction needs (residential and non-residential), international public actors are calling on the private sector to mobilize significant financial resources in order to invest massively in projects that are essential to economic and demographic development.
For its part, the private sector is looking for investment vehicles that are both profitable and secure, to guarantee reasonable and stable returns for the savers. In addition to these requirements, the private sector is looking for ways to contribute positively to the ecological transition.
Under certain conditions, investment in construction (especially in infrastructures) can meet these criteria. The SEFI encourages international organizations, public authorities, and bilateral or multilateral donors (via CICA, the Confederation of International Contractors' Associations) to recognize better the role of infrastructure in achieving sustainable development goals and to leverage the resources and skills of the private sector by broadening and simplifying its access to this asset class.
At the same time, the SEFI calls on public principals and their supervisory bodies to increase the amount of public and private financing available for infrastructure and advocates for a better preparation of projects by project owners from a technical, economic, legal, financial, environmental, and social point of view, in order to improve their effectiveness.
The SEFI recommends a better ex-ante evaluation of their investment projects' economic and budgetary impact (direct and indirect, medium and long term), determining the sustainability (total or partial) of the debt subscribed for their realization.
The SEFI also lobbies (via MEDEF) with Bpifrance, the French government, the OECD, and the European Commission for better public support for exports (in particular, through reforms of the 1978 OECD Arrangement), to facilitate the action of French construction companies in an undistorted international competitive environment.
Finally, the SEFI recommends that official development aid actors direct their action towards financing housing and infrastructure, a sine qua non-condition for recipient countries' ecological, economic, and social adaptation to their demographic evolution.
For its part, the private sector is looking for investment vehicles that are both profitable and secure, to guarantee reasonable and stable returns for the savers. In addition to these requirements, the private sector is looking for ways to contribute positively to the ecological transition.
Under certain conditions, investment in construction (especially in infrastructures) can meet these criteria. The SEFI encourages international organizations, public authorities, and bilateral or multilateral donors (via CICA, the Confederation of International Contractors' Associations) to recognize better the role of infrastructure in achieving sustainable development goals and to leverage the resources and skills of the private sector by broadening and simplifying its access to this asset class.
At the same time, the SEFI calls on public principals and their supervisory bodies to increase the amount of public and private financing available for infrastructure and advocates for a better preparation of projects by project owners from a technical, economic, legal, financial, environmental, and social point of view, in order to improve their effectiveness.
The SEFI recommends a better ex-ante evaluation of their investment projects' economic and budgetary impact (direct and indirect, medium and long term), determining the sustainability (total or partial) of the debt subscribed for their realization.
The SEFI also lobbies (via MEDEF) with Bpifrance, the French government, the OECD, and the European Commission for better public support for exports (in particular, through reforms of the 1978 OECD Arrangement), to facilitate the action of French construction companies in an undistorted international competitive environment.
Finally, the SEFI recommends that official development aid actors direct their action towards financing housing and infrastructure, a sine qua non-condition for recipient countries' ecological, economic, and social adaptation to their demographic evolution.