The guide highlights the ground-level regulatory and policy questions that must be answered by electricity regulators, rural energy agencies, and ministries to promote commercially sustainable investments by private operators and community organizations. Among the practical questions addressed is how to design and implement retail tariffs, quality of service standards, feed-in tariffs, and backup tariffs. The guide also analyzes the regulatory implementation issues triggered by donor grants and so-called top-up payments.

The report is the most comprehensive study on mini grids to date. It takes stock of the global mini grid market and industry; analyzes in detail the solar-hybrid mini grid costs and technological innovations; shows the importance of introducing income-generating machinery and micro-finance early in the planning process; and provides policy makers, investors and developers with insights on how mini grids can be scaled up.

The report provides an analytical overview of the most common barriers to access to justice and presents the value and prerequisites of eight options available to governments to increase access to justice in these contexts.

The objective of the FCV Strategy is to enhance the WBG’s effectiveness to support countries in addressing the drivers and impacts of FCV and strengthening their resilience, especially for the most vulnerable and marginalized populations.

This guidance note provides practical suggestions for addressing gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in projects, and suggest five strategies to help deliver these suggestions and achieve sanitation for all.

The toolkit helps bring a gender equality perspective into transport policy initiatives designed or implemented by governments, international organisations and businesses.

This toolkit is intended to be a practice guide towards introducing gender equality and women’s empowerment principles in designing urban mobility systems and public spaces so that they mitigate rather than reinforce gender inequalities.

This report provide an overview of the role played by the EIB in financing PPP projects inside and outside of Europe since 1990.

Africa Project Development Facility (APDF) was set up in 1986 as a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). 

World Bank.

Project Development Funds (PDFs) - Supporting Project Preparation to Structure Successful Public-private Partnerships (PPPs) : A Primer (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.