PPPIAF Toolkit: Building Regional Power Pools

The toolkit has a modular structure: The “Road Map” introduces the broad developmental context for the regional power pool initiatives, which the World Bank Group is supporting under the Infrastructure Action Plan. It describes the building blocks—a robust legal, regulatory, and organization, framework—for regional power pool initiatives and highlights critical success factors through a case study on the enduring experience of Nordic countries.

Railway Reform: Toolkit for Improving Rail Sector Performance

This toolkit provides an experienced-based set of best practices and selected case studies to aid in the planning and execution of railway reforms. It is based on international experiences with railway reform under a range of railway organizational forms - state agencies, state-owned, or private enterprises. 

Related Information: 

Railways PPPs

Tracking References: 

Railway Toolkit_EN.pdf, 

La Reforma de Los Ferrocariles_ES.pdf

PPIAF - Gridlines article - Helping a new breed of private water operators access infrastructure finance

The program has already generated important lessons for engaging small-scale providers in delivering water services to poor people. In Kenya, the government has made a determined effort to partner with small-scale  water providers. It has already put into place a basic legal and regulatory framework to support this effort.

PPIAF Assistance to the Republic of Chad

The 2010 United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index ranked the Republic of Chad (Chad) 163 out of 169 countries in the world. Extreme poverty, high vulnerability to food insecurity, and unstable security situation caused by recurrent armed conflict are the biggest constraints to economic growth in Chad. While the political situation has significantly improved since 2010, socio-economic conditions of the majority of Chadians remain precarious.

PPIAF Assistance in the Republic of Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde (Cape Verde) is a small island country comprised of an archipelago of ten islands, located off the coast of Western Africa. Unlike many of its neighboring countries, Cape Verde is known for being a stable country, with no history of political coups or social conflicts. Despite its recent graduation from the list of the United Nation’s Least Developed Countries, the government of Cape Verde continues to face great challenges due to the country’s insularity and high vulnerability to exogenous shocks.

PPIAF Assistance in Angola

Two outcomes of the PPIAF-funded study in Angola are:
(a) The enactment of amendments to the Basic Telecommunication Law 8/ 2001, published in April 11, 2008
(b) The enactment of Decree 188 of October 7, 2008 containing the Internal Regulations (Estatuto Orgânico) of Instituto Angolano de Comunicaçoes (INACOM), regulator of telecommunication services