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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…
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Country Experience with Unsolicited PPP Proposals: Distinct, Diverse, Disparate
Traditionally, infrastructure service delivery has been the responsibility of government. In some cases, government may solicit private partners to help deliver projects; these are solicited PPPs.…
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Beyond regulations: Country paths to achieving PPP success
Based on the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development report, this blog examines how three countries have approached PPP program development. The PPP programs in Colombia, Kenya, and the…
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ALSF partners on Procuring Infrastructure Public Partnerships
The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) recognizes that many governments around the world have turned to public-private partnerships (PPPs) to design, finance, build, and operate infrastructure…
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Are Public-Private Partnerships a Panacea for Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Deficit?
On Wednesday 24 March 2021, The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) held the second webinar in its series of PPP webinars for Anglophone Africa. The objective of the webinar was to explore the use…
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People First Public Private Partnerships (PfPPPs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs): an African perspective
People-First PPPs (PfPPPs) set out a clear statement that out of all the project stakeholders, people should be the priority and main beneficiary. The focus of PfPPPs should be in increasing access…
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Bringing Down the Barriers to Infrastructure Development in Africa
The imperative for leveraging Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to meet the infrastructure development challenges in Africa is no longer a point of dispute. The African Development Bank estimates…
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PPP laws in Africa: confusing or clarifying?
The blog introduced the development of PPP laws in Africa.
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PPPs and the frameworks surrounding them: A new comparison tool for Africa
The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) has developed country profiles to assess the progress of developing PPP legal frameworks in individual African nations. Furthermore, the ALSF has also…
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How innovative revenues for infrastructure can fundamentally reshape infrastructure funding
Take a step into a metro station today and there’s no doubt you’ll find countless advertisement banners. It turns out these advertisements play an important role in getting needed infrastructure…
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PPPs & Parking - Change is Underway
An overview of parking PPPs in the United States.
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Climate Changed Saudi Arabia Gets Cheapest Bids for Solar Power in Auction
Saudi Arabia received offers to supply solar electricity for the cheapest prices ever recorded, marking the start of a $50 billion program to diversify the oil producer’s domestic energy…
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Chile solar auction sets new record low for solar PV
Energy auction in Chile received the lowest price for solar in the region
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Inauguration of the Senegal BRT
This blog introduces the inauguration of the Senegal BRT.
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Legal and institutional frameworks for Public Private Partnerships in Africa: a new tool developed by the ALSF to compare them
There is an unprecedented interest among African countries in attracting private investment in infrastructure and services to meet the growing national demand. However, while public…
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IETA and Founding Partners Announce the Launch of Climate Action Data Trust
The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), the World Bank and the Government of Singapore announced the launch of the Climate Action Data Trust (CAD Trust), and that initial…
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Senken is launching the world’s first public sale of carbon forward tokens
Carbon forwards allow pre-funding of climate projects that are still in development for a reduced price. It helps organizations to hedge their carbon emissions and manage their exposure to carbon…
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Sludge: Types, Uses, Objectives and Methods of Removing Sludge
Sludge is a semi-solid slurry that can be produced from a range of industrial processes, from water treatment, wastewater treatment or on-site sanitation systems. For example, it can be produced as a…
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Using development rights to acquire land for infrastructure projects in Deep Dives dense urban areas
The municipality of Porto Alegre, the capital and largest city in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, was planning to build a new transit artery connecting 20 neighborhoods across the…
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MLCP at Norzin Lam to open this month
Thimphu thromde is hopeful that they will be able to do away with the parking space along Norzin lam, the city’s main thoroughfare, by June. The thromde is waiting for the completion of the multi-…
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Thimphu Thromde to give parking space with one hand but takes with another
Thimphu’s main hope for more parking space for vehicles and reducing traffic congestion are the Thromde’s two Multi level Car Parking (MLCP) projects which are expected to provide additional parking…
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Mohali terminal chairman booked for duping buyers
The developers of Mohali terminal, including chairman and directors of C&C Towers Limited, were slapped with another FIR in Mohali. They have been booked for duping around 20 people of Rs 3.55…
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Delhi’s hi-tech ghost parking lots
Multi-level facilities lie massively under utilised even as space crunch in the city forces people to park vehicles on road sides and bylanes.