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Electric Vehicle and Labor Market Transformation
Motorcycle-taxis are among the fastest-growing forms of informal transport in developing economies, providing essential mobility and absorbing millions of workers into flexible but precarious…
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Guide for Road Safety Assessments for Urban Railway Crossings and Stations
This guide explains that safety is not just about the trains themselves, but also about how people get to and from stations . Problems often come from poor sidewalks, missing sign age, bad lighting,…
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Mobility and Development Periodical, Winter 2025
This periodical brings together fourteen insightful articles that showcase the transformative role of transport in driving development, connectivity, and innovation across diverse contexts. The…
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Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Resources and Tools : Second Edition
This toolkit provides a compendium of resources for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process: Assessing, Enabling, Planning and Design, Financing, and…
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World Bank Port Reform Toolkit
Ports are undergoing constant transformation, induced by changes in the global economy, technology, or the environment. Port reform is influenced by factors that include aspirations for change…
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Further Reading: Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) PPPs
Further readingWaste PPPs, Handshake, International Finance Corporation's (IFC's) quarterly journal on public-private partnerships, Issue # 12, 2014.Encap Africa has developed a section on solid…
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Further Reading: Telecommunications / Information & Communication Technology PPPs
Further ReadingBroadband Investment Handbook (European Commission) - This handbook, prepared for the European Commission, aims to assist public authorities in planning, implementing, and monitoring…
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Further Reading: Public-Private Partnerships for Transport
Further Reading and ResourcesPPP Risk Allocation Tool (2019) – provides a useful reference source which outlines common risks arising in different types of PPPs and different market approaches to the…
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Combating Heat in Cities: Operationalizing the Urban Heat Agenda at the World Bank
The publication is a product of a joint study between the World Bank’s Global Practice for Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land (GPURL) and the Korea Research Institute for Human…
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Chennai’s Urban Mobility Transformation
This compendium explores how cities can tackle complex urban mobility challenges, using Chennai, India as a case study. It highlights the city's progress in building a foundation for more efficient…
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Urban & Cities
This section focuses on making cities more equitable, efficient, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. While rapid urban expansion can lead to challenges, effective urban management is crucial…
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Scaling Up Private Finance for Clean Energy in Emerging and Developing Economies
This report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) examines how to scale up private finance for clean energy transitions by quantifying the investments…
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Theme Report on Energy Transition
Over the next decade, every aspect of national energy systems will be affected by changes in climate and energy policy, and financing, continuous technological advancement, and shifts in energy…
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Guidelines to Implement Battery Energy Storage Systems Under Public-Private Partnership Structures
The objective of this report is to provide guidance on how such structures can be implemented to grow the role of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in developing countries.
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People in a Changing Climate: From Vulnerability to Action - Insights from World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports covering 72 economies
To identify opportunities and priorities to align development and climate change action and objectives at the country level, the World Bank Group introduced the Country Climate and Development…
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Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs)
The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are a core diagnostic that integrates climate change and development.
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Global Solar Atlas - research mapping tool
The World Bank Group has provided this Global Solar Atlas in addition to a series of global, regional and country GIS data layers and poster maps, to support the scale-up of solar…
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Energy Transition Toolkit - World Energy Council
The World Energy Council (WEC) is a UN-accredited, member-based global energy network that brings together energy leaders, experts, and practitioners from various sectors to promote the sustainable…
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Improving Water Services in a Post-Conflict Situation : The Case of the Management Contract in Kosovo
The Kosovo experience shows that introducing a professional outside operator through a management contract—to operate the system while at the same time implementing urgent repairs—can be a viable and…
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Corporatizing a water utility : a successful case using a performance-based service contract for ONEA in Burkina Faso
The success of the urban water reform in Burkina Faso stems largely from a combination of competent public management at ONEA, sustained commitment from the government, strong financial support from…
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Water operators from emerging markets : new players for public-private partnerships
Gridlines share emerging knowledge on public-private partnership and give an overview of a wide selection of projects from various regions of the world.
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Proyecto Especial Olmos Tinajones
The official government website of Peru introduces the Olmos Tinajones Special Project (PEOT).
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Digital-in-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone
As health systems face increasing demands to deliver new, more, better, and seamless services affordable to all people, data and technology are essential.
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Strategic Investment for Health System Resilience: A Three-Layer Framework
The Publication, A Three-Layer Framework, provides a practical investment framework and a diverse set of country cases to inform decision-making and strategic resource allocations
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Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Vietnam: Issues and Options
This book describes the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector in Vietnam.