The combined investment of these plans amounts to more than $500 billion—to address the existing infrastructure deficit and to ensure the scale of infrastructure to support industrial growth. All these plans have the added advantage of creating jobs while stimulating growth, for example, South Africa's Expanded Public Works Programme (2014-2019) was designed with as many as 6 million jobs by 2019 (South African Government, 2015). Instead, the continent can build to leading-edge standards based on the latest information and practices, which consider the expected impacts of climate change not only on resource availability but on infrastructure assets.