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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…
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…
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 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.
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
The report compiles emissions data at a country level from publicly accessible sources within the thirty most emitting countries' telecommunications operators. Its goal is to unravel the emissions and energy usage patterns within the sector while exploring their implications for climate action,…
Digital Innovation for Smarter Climate Action
The Report showcases good practices and country examples of digital applications in addressing climate change, in terms of mitigation and adaptation.
Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018
Despite the presence of broadly recognized good practices and tools, governments around the world still fall behind in preparing, procuring, and managing effective public-private partnerships (PPPs) that meet the needs of their citizens. A new report, Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018,…
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
This toolkit provides practical tools and guidelines for developing gender responsive PPPs. Gender responsive PPPs incorporate design features, measures, and specific actions for reducing gender inequalities (or closing gender gaps) within the community stakeholders that the project affects…
PPP Contracts in An Age of Disruption (Download PDF version)
This report 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 flexible enough to encourage…
World Bank Guidance on PPP Legal Frameworks
This report provides succinct guidance to governments on developing a sustainable PPP legal framework.
Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs
The Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure PPPs toolkit aim to embed a climate lens and approach into upstream PPP advisory work and structuring. If structured correctly, PPPs can increase climate resilience offering innovative solutions to address both mitigation and adaptation challenges. PPPs…
Mainstreaming Gender in Infrastructure: Desk Review
This study conducts an exploratory review of the literature on infrastructure and gender to discuss best practices and lessons learned for mainstreaming gender and identify gender gaps. The scope of this study is limited to gender mainstreaming in upstream infrastructure planning and…
COVID-19 and Public-Private Partnerships Practice Notes
This practice note is comprised of three modules: Assessing Operational PPP Portfolios, Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on PPP Pipelines and Projects in Preparation, and Stocktake of government responses to the impact of COVID-19 on PPP projects
PPP Risk Allocation Tool (2019)
The PPP Risk Allocation Tool 2019 Edition contains matrices showing the allocation of risks as between the public and private partners in typical PPP transactions for 18 different types of projects, including both economic infrastructure (such as transport, energy, telecommunications and water…
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
A guidebook for government officials in emerging markets and developing economies(EMDEs) on government guarantees for public-private-partnership (PPP) projects
Reference Tool on Inclusive Infrastructure and Social Equity
The Reference Tool on Inclusive Infrastructure and Social Equity presents a practical evidence-based framework for practitioners to maximise the impact of infrastructure investment on reducing inequality and increasing the positive social outcomes of large infrastructure projects for often under…
A Guide to Community Engagement for Public-Private Partnerships (June 2019)
Global Guide to Community Engagement for PPPs
This Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) guide explains how communities affected by a PPP can engage in the project. The aim is to improve the development outcomes from PPPs and simultaneously creating a smoother operating environment for all…
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…