Asia

Research highlights the provision of affordable housing, including for the lowest income groups, as an overlooked opportunity for developers and investors willing to think more creatively about the housing market. There are a number of areas where collaboration between private and community sector organisations could enable development of affordable housing, utilising the networks and resources established […]

The business case for large scale deployment of renewable energy technologies in developing countries is gaining momentum. There is growing awareness that renewable energy can play a key role in addressing climate change, creating new economic opportunities, and providing energy access to those living without modern energy services. This paper looks at some of the […]

The Philippines Public Private Partnership Centre (PPPC) can provide important learning to donors as a donor-funded infrastructure development technical assistance initiative. Which, although linked to government, does not sit institutionally within any Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) or International Finance Institute (IFI) and operates with a large degree of autonomy. Its record indicates that the provision […]

DFID’s recent Inclusive Growth Diagnostics highlighted that in many DFID priority countries energy is a key constraint to economic growth. Energy reform is highly political, and any attempts to support sector reform without an understanding of the domestic and international political landscape are likely to fail. This case study seeks to draw out key success […]

This case study explores the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) financing instrument provided by the Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) to the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) project development and financing facilities. VGF helps PIDG facilities offset part of the up-front preparation costs of pro-poor private infrastructure investments in challenging environments that prevent projects towards attracting debt […]

The Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) through its Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) offers the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) – an innovative financing instrument designed to offset part of the up-front preparation costs of pro-poor infrastructure investments in challenging environments. TAF provides technical assistance and capacity building to the PIDG facilities to make their projects commercially […]

The Centre for Inclusive Growth (CIG) was initially set-up as a think-tank to inform economic policy and help tackle Nepal’s growth constraints associated with inadequate infrastructure, flawed macro-economic management and weak policy coherence. It became apparent however that such an approach would not deliver results due to Nepal’s governance constraints. As a result, CIG shifted […]

Infrastructure Development Company Ltd. (IDCOL), a government finance institution, has been instrumental in scaling-up electricity access through off-grid solar home systems (SHS) across Bangladesh. This public-private partnership has successfully rolled out approximately 4.1 million SHS since 2003 using innovative financial and technology packages. However the IDCOL’s SHS programme has had to modify its original design […]

Traditionally, donor programmes have been established using a simple formula, whereby SPs estimate the total overhead for a programme through tender, against a fixed set of inputs and workplan. In these programmes, clients need to wait months or years before assistance is deployed due to procurement procedures, by which time resource allocation, costs, and plans […]

The design, planning, delivery and governance of infrastructure has to be a game changer for improving women’s lives, by reducing the demands and drudgery of household and care work, increasing the productivity of their enterprises and enabling them to move into better jobs or more profitable markets. These changes, in turn, can broaden women’s aspirations, […]