PPP Gender Toolkit: Mainstreaming gender in infrastructure
This resource studies a toolkit designed to provide practical tools and guidelines for developing gender-responsive Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). Gender-responsive PPPs aim to incorporate design features and specific actions that address and reduce gender inequalities within communities impacted by the project. This toolkit can be used as the basis for developing a tailored capacity building program by the World Bank.
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are key to developing sustainable infrastructure that contributes to meeting global development goals. Well-designed PPPs can improve infrastructure service delivery and management, incentivize efficiency gains, and help increase infrastructure funding and financing—all of which can result in increased access to essential infrastructure and services.
Improved access to essential infrastructure and services facilitates women’s participation in income-generating activities, which contributes to progressing toward achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals of full and paid employment, and decent work, for all women and men.
Including gender-responsive measures in PPPs can help to further promote gender equality and achieve stronger socioeconomic impacts. For example, considering women’s needs and preferences when identifying and designing PPPs helps develop projects that better meet the demands of the population, thereby resulting in better outcomes.
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 directly or indirectly.
