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Banking on Cities: Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization
Banking on Cities advances the discussion on urban climate finance by exploring how cities can identify sources of funding and finance that are suited to different types of resilient and low-carbon…
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Handbook for Scaling Irrigation Systems
International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are global organizations focused on promoting resilient agriculture and food system…
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Wastewater Treatment and Reuse: A Guide to Help Small Towns Select Appropriate Options
This guide is part of a World Bank suite of tools and other material to support World Bank teams and their government counterparts in the planning, design, and implementation of sanitation projects…
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Water and Sanitation System, Bucharest, Romania
table, th, td { border:1px solid #ffffff; padding:10px } Project Summary:BackgroundThe municipality of Bucharest was facing numerous challenges related to its water supply and sanitation system…
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CVC Opportunities in Infrastructure
Opportunities for innovative revenues and CVC are rich and diverse. This section will provide examples of CVC opportunities in infrastructure drawn from various resources such as the World Bank’s…
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What is Commercial Value Capture (CVC)?
Public infrastructure often creates places and spaces that provide opportunities for more, higher value and new commercial activities that generate additional revenue.1 Most often, it is the…
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World Bank Urban Development Website
The official website of World Bank Urban Development.
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Lesotho: Medical Waste PPP
Brief on IFC's PPP advisory support to the government of Lesotho for the set up of a sustainable waste management system.
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Guide to Ring-Fencing of Local Government-Run Water Utilities
This report is one of the deliverables under Component 3 of the Small Water Utilities Improvement and Financing (SWIF) project implemented by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). SWIF aims to…
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Gender & Water and Sanitation Projects
Integrating Gender Across the PPP Project CycleMultinational Development Banks (MDBs) as well as bilateral and national development banks and many other leading development organizations have a…
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Sub-national and Municipal PPPs
While large infrastructure projects grab the attention of central government, infrastructure investment is important also at the sub-national level. Sub-national entities and governments including…
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PPPs in Rural and Peri-Urban Water Sector: Victoria Delmon and Jane Jamieson
Although there is a sense that water is a public good, in urban areas it can be very expensive to get it to tap water, while it is very likely that in rural areas in developing countries the majority…
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Water & Sanitation Toolkits
Listed below is a number of toolkits that comprises contracts, leases, affermages, concessions, divestitures relevant to private participation in both water supply and sanitation services, as well an…
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Managing Non-Technical Losses and Theft in Utility Contracts
In response, various countries have taken a combination of legal and practical measures to address the problem. Given the essential nature of some utility services and the rampant extent of the…
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Structuring Management, Operation and Maintenance Services
What Are Management and "Operation and Maintenance" Contracts?The term "management contract" has been applied to cover a range of contracts from technical assistance contracts through to full-blown…
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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…