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Women, Business and the Law 2026: Benchmarking Laws for Jobs and Inclusive Growth
Women, Business and the Law 2026 is the 11th in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and policies that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies.
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A Toolkit for Redefining Opportunities for Women in Transport
A Toolkit for Redefining Opportunities for Women in Transport is a comprehensive resource designed to empower transport sector professionals and policy makers to address disparities in mobility,…
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Further Reading: Public-Private Partnerships for Transport
Further Reading and ResourcesPPP Risk Allocation Tool (2019) – provides a useful reference source which outlines common risks arising in different types of PPPs and different market approaches to the…
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Concession agreement between Rail for London Limited and MTR Laing Metro Limited
Concession agreement between Rail for London Limited and MTR Laing Metro Limited.
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National Treasury PPP Manual
The South African National Treasury’s PPP Manual is a best practice guide for PPP practitioners.
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Guidance Notes to Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability
Guidance Notes to Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability - 2012 EditionRelevant IFC Performance Standards are Performance Standard 1 (Assessment and Management of…
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Energy-Efficient Street Lighting PPPs
Sample Contracts, Clauses and Bidding DocumentsBrazil:Belo Horizonte - Concessão administrativa para a prestação dos serviços de iluminação pública no Município de Belo Horizonte incluídos o…
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Examining public-private partnership projects through a gender lens
Investment in infrastructure services in emerging economies is key to tackling extreme poverty and enhancing shared prosperity. Achieving gender equality is equally important if we want to reach…
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Gender & Water and Sanitation Projects
In many cultures women and girls bear, for example, the primary responsibility for collecting water for food preparation, drinking, bathing, washing and are the main caregivers for children, sick and…
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Gender & Transport Projects
Access to safe and affordable transportation has direct impact on the economic opportunities and quality of life of the affected communities. All these benefits apply to both men and women, but tend…
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Gender & Energy Projects
In many developing countries, the lack of access to reliable, affordable and high quality energy infrastructure is recognized as one of the major factors impeding overall socio-economic development…
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Sector-Specific Materials
The extent to and way in which gender considerations could be incorporated into the design and implementation of an infrastructure project to promote gender inclusion depend at least to some degree…
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Key Topics Across Infrastructure Sectors
Strengthen Women's Role in Community EngagementCommunity engagement is part of the greater stakeholder engagement process of a PPP. If the community engagement process can build broad community…
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Applying a Gender Lens throughout the PPP Project Cycle
Multinational Development Banks (MDBs) as well as bilateral and national development banks and many other leading development organizations have a growing commitment to finance and support…
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Gender Equality & PPPs
The development and upgrading of infrastructure through public-private partnership (PPP) projects can significantly improve the availability and quality of essential infrastructure services, which in…
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Public-Private Partnerships for Transport
Public-private partnerships (“PPPs”) can be an effective way to build and implement new infrastructure or to renovate, operate, maintain or manage existing transport infrastructure facilities. In…
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Water & Sanitation PPPs
Almost fifty percent of the developing world’s population - 2.5 billion people – lack improved sanitation facilities, and almost 1 billion people still use unsafe drinking water sources, and even…
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Power and Renewable Energy PPPs
Energy is a broad sector that holds two important yet very different industries: the oil and gas sector and the power sector. The focus of the Public-Private Partnership Resource Center is on…