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EPEC Guide to Public-Private Partnerships

This Guide to Public-Private Partnerships is published by the European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), a Division of the European Investment Bank (EIB). It provides a high-level framework to guide the…

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Energy Sector Experience of Output-Based Aid

The mutually-reinforcing relationship between electricity access, economic development, and poverty reduction is well established. Electricity access also improves welfare outcomes. The challenge is…

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G20/OECD Guidance Note on Diversification of Financial Instruments for Infrastructure and SMEs

This document contains the final version of the G20/OECD Guidance Note on recommended policy steps to diversified financing instruments for infrastructure and SMEs. It was endorsed by the G20 Finance…

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Programa de Normas y Etiquetado de Eficiencia Energética de Panamá – Productos de Iluminación

Panama Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Program – Lighting Products (in Spanish)

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Case Study: Inclusive Infrastructure and Social Equity

Eight diverse real-life project case studies that incorporate lessons learned and leading practices in multiple Action Areas.

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Valuing Infrastructure Spend: Supplementary Guidance to the Green Book

This document is a best practice guide for use in central government departments and other government bodies involved in the production and approval of business cases for economic infrastructure…

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Identifying/Screening Projects for PPP Implementation: Afghanistan

This tool seeks to streamline the PPP process and ensure that resources are only used for proposals with a greater chance of viability.

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Roadmap for Private Sector Participation in Electric Mobility in Kolkata City

This report will evaluate the private sector participation potential in electric three-wheeler and electric four-wheeler segment in the city of Kolkata and will provide recommendation in terms of…

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H1 2019 Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI)

This report describes Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) as indicated in the Private Participa- tion in Infrastructure Database. The database records investment information for…

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Enabling Health Technology in Emerging Markets

A briefing paper from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Health Technology Think Tank discussion at the 2019 Global Private Healthcare Conference.

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Financing and Funding Kenyan PPPs – Emerging Trends and Issues

This is a joint initiative of the World Bank Group and the PPP Unit Kenya.

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LeakSuite Knowledge Hub: Understanding Water Losses

To promote improved Open Access to practitioners, Allan set up the LEAKSSuite website in 2013 to  provide easily accessible free information on effective water leakage and pressure management in…

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Disclosure Diagnostic Report: Nigeria

A World Bank Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) team conducted a study in Nigeria between September 2016 and April 2017, using the PPP Disclosure Diagnostic template recommended by the World Bank’s…

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China: Municipality-Level Public–Private Partnership Operational Framework for Chongqing

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is actively encouraging private investment in infrastructure, and a major part of this is building up a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program at both the…

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Water Insecurity and Sanitation in Asia

This volume brings together 17 studies that examine various innovations in the water and sanitation sector in Asia and, most importantly, identify their spillover effects. This is the first attempt…

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NRW Practices Rating Tool

The excel file provides a tool for the process and practices of benchmarking a water utility to understand the severity of NRW.

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Public-Private Partnership Monitor Second Edition

This edition covers a total 12 developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)—with the addition of Georgia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—and provides updates for 2017. The…

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Technical Brief on Resilient Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: Policy, Contracting, and Finance

This brief was made possible with the financial support of the PPIAF and Japan-World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries, which is financed by the…

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Technical Guidance Note on Assessing the Welfare and Distributional Impacts of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Interventions

This Note introduces key evaluation approaches and methods that can produce credible evidence about the welfare and distributional impacts of infrastructure interventions. Evaluating both types of…

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Ensuring Water Supply in Kuala Lumpur

In 1998, Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia and home to 1.5 million people, was running out of water. Water was rationed for five months. To end this crisis, the State Waterworks Department hired…

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Mobilization of Private Finance by Multilateral Development Banks 2018 Joint Report

This year’s report contains results that support the recent United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force findings on Financing for Development that, while “there is progress” on increasing financing for…