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World Bank’s Governance & Institutions Umbrella Program
The Governance & Institutions Umbrella Program focuses on supporting client countries in improving public sector performance and strengthening institutional reform, leveraging the power of digital and technology solutions in the public sector, and enhancing transparency and accountability.
Businesses Of The State (BOS) and Private Sector Development Toolkit
In light of the importance of state as a market player in the global economy, this toolkit provides guidance on how to conduct a systematic diagnostic of the state footprint with the objective to assess market dynamics and identify areas of reforms to foster private sector investment, economic…
World Development Report 2025 - Standards for Development
A World Bank Group Flagship Report. World Development Report 2025: Standards for Development provides the most comprehensive assessment of the global landscape of standards today and how they can be used to accelerate economic development. It offers a practical framework for countries at all stages…
Rethinking Resilience: Adapting to a Changing Climate
The publication, Rethinking Resilience, urges developing countries to adopt policies that empower individuals, households, farms, and firms to take proactive measures. Resilience measures should prioritize income growth, reliable information, and private insurance, with infrastructure and public…
How blended finance can reorient cautious private investors to infrastructure
Blended finance is a way to improve risk-adjusted returns and mobilize private capital to close infrastructure financing gaps. Sustainable, optimal, and innovative strategies can increase private capital mobilized from limited public budgets. When combined with the strategic use of government…
Measuring the Emissions and Energy Footprint of the ICT Sector: Implications for Climate Action
Digitalization is increasing rapidly worldwide, requiring more energy, and resulting in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The report uses a key framework for categorizing energy use and emissions, the greenhouse gas protocol corporate standard. Second, the report addresses the policy and…
Digital Innovation for Smarter Climate Action
Asia-Pacific Digital Transformation Report 2024- Digital Innovation for Smarter Climate Action by ESCAP.
Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018
The report benchmarks the regulatory framework of 135 economies against international recognized good practices, scoring them on four elements: preparation, procurement, contract management, and treatment of unsolicited proposals. It found that the average performance of each of the categories…
Global Program on Anticorruption for Development
The World Bank Group considers corruption a major obstacle to eradicating extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity on a livable planet. Corruption has a disproportionate impact on the poor and most vulnerable. It increases costs, reduces access to health, education, and justice, and…
Gender PPP Toolkit
The purpose of this toolkit is to help governments and upstream advisors, PPP practitioners, multilateral development banks (MDBs), and private sector stakeholders mainstream gender considerations in infrastructure PPPs. In this toolkit, ‘gender’ is defined in a binary format (women and girls; men…
PPP Contracts in An Age of Disruption (Download PDF version)
PPP Contracts in An Age of Disruption examines how disruptive technologies impact public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure; what this means for the management of existing PPP contracts; and how better partnerships can be created—ones that are more resilient to such changes, as well as…
World Bank Guidance on PPP Legal Frameworks
This Guidance is intended for governments who wish to include public-private partnerships in their toolkit of methods for delivering infrastructure assets and services. It explains why a suitable PPP legal framework is essential and describes mechanisms for designing and implementing such framework…
Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs
The Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), The Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF), and (International Finance Corporation Public-Private Partnership (IFC PPP) Transaction and Advisory Services have joined forces to build upon best practice on a topic at the cross-roads of…
Mainstreaming Gender in Infrastructure: Desk Review
The review goes beyond publications produced by MDBs and other multilateral institutions to include academic literature on gender & politics. This literature is particularly helpful in understanding (i) the complexities of gender-based social marginalization, and (ii) challenges that …
COVID-19 and Public-Private Partnerships Practice Notes
Note 1 Assessing Operational PPP PortfoliosThis note discusses key operational considerations when trying to maintain services during the COVID-19 crisis and recalibrating the PPP project in the short term. It builds on early lessons from the pandemic response and provides general guidance that…
PPP Risk Allocation Tool (2019)
The PPP Risk Allocation Tool 2019 Edition is the second edition of the guidance tool, with the first edition focused only on economic infrastructure in the transport, energy, water and waste sectors. The 2016 version of the guidance tool was delivered in 2016 by global law firm Norton Rose…
Pandemics and PPP Contracts
Watch this space. Pandemics and PPPs section is intended to be a living document and will be reviewed at regular intervals. Let us know what you think by taking a Quick Survey.PPP contracts are uniquely long-term arrangements between the public and private sectors which…
Government Guarantees for Mobilizing Private Investment in Infrastructure
Written by Jason Zhengrong Lu, Jenny Jing Chao and James Robert Sheppard, World Bank study supported by the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) and Public-Private Infrastructure Facility (PPIAF), December 2019. This publication provides guidance to government officials in emerging markets…
Reference Tool on Inclusive Infrastructure and Social Equity
The tool presents a framework which details six Action Areas, or themes, related to infrastructure development, and provides related guidance under each, which are then illustrated by real-life examples, including eight detailed case studies. These real-life projects have embedded inclusivity at…
A Guide to Community Engagement for Public-Private Partnerships (June 2019)
The draft Guide to Community Engagement for PPPs is open for public consultation to capture inputs and recommendations by all relevant stakeholders. The guide has been prepared by the Community Development Team within the International Finance Corporation and the PPP team within the…
Municipal Public-Private Partnership Framework
The Municipal PPP Framework is a tool developed specifically for local governments to help them understand and implement PPPs, keeping in mind their characteristics, needs and challenges. The Framework is inspired by best practices from PPPs around the world adjusted to be most relevant for…