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Ghana’s e-government public-private partnership and the value of long-term strategies
Ghana’s e-government public-private partnership and the value of long-term strategies.
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Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa: A World Bank Group Strategy for Information and Communication Technology Sector Development
This paper outlines a strategy for information and communication technologies (ICT) development in Sub-Saharan Africa that will further the reform agenda to facilitate deployment of ICT…
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Central African Backbone Project
World Bank project summary and associated documentation of the Central African Backbone Project, The objective of the Central African Backbone (CAB) Program Project is to contribute to increase…
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Public-Private Partnership in Telecommunications Infrastructure Projects
This paper delineates the role of government in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in the telecommunication sector in the Republic of the Congo. PPPs offer policy makers an opportunity to improve the…
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Durban Water Recycling Project
The Durban Water Recycling Project demonstrates that innovative approaches to water resource management, environmental management, wastewater treatment technology and institutional arrangements can…
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Urban Development and Renewal in Nigeria : The Potency of Public Private Partnership
Urban growth and renewal, which is an essential element of sustainable urban development, is inevitably influenced by general conditions including globalization and demographic change. Urban…
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Engaging the Private Sector in Liberia's Electricity Future
With the assistance of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Government of Liberia awarded a five-year management contract for the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) to Manitoba Hydro…
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Multiple Ports of Call versus Hub-and-Spoke
Hub-and-spoke systems in containerized maritime transport often bring significant cost advantages, benefiting the various parties to the trade. Yet, comparison of a unit cost of the…
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Port and Maritime Transport Challenges in West and Central Africa
Port and Maritime Transport Challenges in West and Central Africa
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Benin: Port of Cotonou
Benin’s port of Cotonou is a potential gateway to landlocked West African countries, but high shipping costs, low efficiency, and poor logistical facilities have kept it from becoming a key…
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Niger: Dry Port
Brief on IFC's PPP advisory support to the government of Niger on the implementation of a 20-year concession to build, develop and operate a dry port project in Dosso and Niamey.
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Madagascar: Port of Toamasina
Brief on IFC's PPP advisory support to the government of Madagascar to structure a 20-year concession for the operation, maintenance, financing, rehabilitation, and development of the container…
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Port reform in Nigeria
Over a two-year period, beginning in late 2004, the Nigerian federal government implemented one of the most ambitious port concessioning programs ever attempted. The success of this program resulted…
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Using a Private Operator to Establish a Corporatized Public Water Utility
In post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa, the city water authority had fallen into disarray (a common situation with urban services). In 2001, a public-private partnership …
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Opportunities and Challenges for Small Scale Private Service Providers in Electricity and Water Supply Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, and the Philippines
This study provides an in-depth look at Small Scale Private Service Providers (SPSPs) of electricity and water and is based on a recent firm-level survey conducted in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, and…
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Open For Business
An exciting shift is happening in Senegal’s water and sanitation sectors. Long lauded for its successful urban water Public Private Partnership (PPP), which began in 1996,1 Senegal is now seeking…
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Creating a Sustainable Sanitation Cycle in Kenya
Sanergy is an innovative business model developed to provide affordable and accessible sanitation facilities throughout Africa's informal settlements
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Selling Sanitation
Selling Sanitation is a joint International Finance Corporation-Water and Sanitation Program (World Bank) initiative that aims to help millions of people across Africa get access to the…
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Water Business Kit Kenya
This Water Business Kit is published jointly by IFC and Aquaya. It is intended to provide small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs with a step-by-step guide to developing a water…
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Subsidizing Water Connections in Cameroon
A project brief on the Cameroon water connection scheme, the first GPOBA project to be implemented under an affermage contract. It is also the first subsidized water connection program…
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PPIAF Support to Private Sector Participation in the Irrigation Sector in Ethiopia
PPIAF support to two activities in Ethiopia has led to private sector participation in the irrigation sector, which is aimed at improving availability of water for farmers, and increasing…
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Unlocking the irrigation potential in sub-Saharan Africa: are public-private partnerships the way forward?
Irrigation can help to improve and stabilise agricultural productivity, thereby contributing to food security and to resilience against climate change. Irrigation – either full or supplementary –…
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Missing Food: The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa
This report is based on the desk study undertaken by experts of the U.K. Natural Resources Institute (NRI).Low-income, food-deficit countries have become especially concerned about the global and…
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Nigeria's Public-Private Partnerships Successes and Failures
Since 1999 the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has supported the Nigerian government in facilitating private sector infrastructure investments in the port, water, and energy…
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Tanzania City Creditworthiness Initiative
Climate change confronts people living in cities around the world. Committed central governments, cities and other sub-national entities responsible for delivering essential public services know that…