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From the Bottom Up: How Small Power Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa
Most Sub-Saharan African countries try to promote rural electrification through both centralized and decentralized approaches. This guide focuses on the decentralized approach, providing practical…
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Mini Grids for Half a Billion People: Market Outlook and Handbook for Decision Makers
Approximately 1.2 billion people will need to gain access to electricity to achieve universal access by 2030. The only way to achieve this is through a combination of the main grid extension, mini…
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How to Prepare and Execute Performance Based Contracts for Road Asset Management - For Advanced Users
Robust road transport systems are indispensable for driving both economic growth and social inclusion. Yet, several critical challenges often impede the full realization of road investments’…
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Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Resources and Tools
This toolkit provides a compendium of resources for Transit-Oriented Development stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process: Assessing, Enabling, Planning and Design, Financing, and…
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TOD Implementation Resources and Tools
Transit-oriented development, commonly known as TOD, is a planning and design strategy that focuses on creating urban development patterns which facilitate the use of public transit,walking and…
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Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. It first identifies barriers to and opportunities for effective…
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Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities
Urbanization is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, making sustainable and efficient urban planning critical. Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities offers a comprehensive…
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TOD Guide for Communities
This TOD Guide for Urban Communities shares the best practice guidelines in transit oriented development around the world. This publication summarizes 28 concrete design recommendations for transit…
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Cities are Taking on Electric Buses: How the FSCI Helps Accelerate the Transition
Each day, a quarter million people around the world rely on diesel-fueled buses to reach their destinations. For decades, these buses have been the backbone of public transit fleets in cities. But…
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TOD City Academy
The event was a two-day interactive workshop, organized within the framework of GPSC’s 3rd Global Meeting, that brought together government officials from 12 Latin American and Caribbean cities and 4…
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Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as…
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Projects and Programs Manual to Encourage Cycling in Communities
Cycling is already an important part of daily life many of Brazil’s urban residents. To grow the country’s cycling culture as well as provide better conditions for users, EMBARQ Brazil developed this…
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Transit-Oriented Development Toolkit
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is an integrated approach to urban planning that aligns transport, land use, and urban design to create compact, connected, and livable cities. By concentrating…
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Unlocking Development through the Power of Co-financing
On February 11, the World Bank Group, together with the Moroccan Ministry of Economy and Finance and AFD Group, will convene a high-level forum — The Power of Co-Financing — to strengthen…
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What will it cost to build the cities of the future?
Banking on Cities means betting on the engines of tomorrow’s growth, jobs, and opportunity. For low- and middle-income countries, the right urban investents can unlock enormous economic potential—if…
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Less driving, more living, and the promise of the 15-minute city
Smart urban planning is essential for developing country cities grappling with rapid growth and increasing congestion. At the same time, these cities often face related challenges—inequality, traffic…
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Parking: If you build it, will they come?
In many cities in developing countries, parking is becoming a significant issue as cities urbanize and car ownership rises. Planners often respond by increasing parking spaces, but is that the best…
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Investing in rail can help put African cities on a more sustainable track
With the right policies and resources, railways have the potential to become the anchor for sustainable urban development across many parts of Africa. Several major cities in the region are…
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The Nature-Based Solutions Opportunity Scan
Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer cost-effective alternatives to gray infrastructure, while building climate resilience and bringing important socioeconomic benefits to communities and the…
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Global Facility to Decarbonize Transport Annual Report (2025)
Development depends on transport that works. Transport systems connect people to opportunity, support businesses and trade, and enable economies to grow. When transport is reliable, efficient, and…
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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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Impacts of climate change – foreseeable or unforeseeable? Drafting force majeure clauses in the era of climate uncertainty
The article outlines the potential role of the force majeure clause in the context of climate change, and summarizes key considerations and effective drafting techniques. It recommends instead…