Critical Infrastructure Programme (CIP)

Cost-sharing support for qualifying infrastructure that enables or unlocks productive investment in South Africa.

South Africa Cross-sector / sector agnostic

Eligibility

Who should inspect this opportunity.

The official programme describes grants generally ranging from 10% to 30% of qualifying infrastructure development costs, capped at R50 million, with differentiated support for specified categories. Applicants must be qualifying South African legal entities and meet programme-specific infrastructure criteria.

Organisation types

SME · Large enterprise · Public entity

Stages

Growth · Scale · Established organisation

Geography

South Africa

Funding purposes

Equipment / infrastructure · Manufacturing / scale-up

Application

Published application process.

Use the current CIP guidelines and the dtic application channel. Confirm project-category cost-sharing rates before budgeting.

Open official application