Documents

Guidance note: Inclusivity in Procurement

Inclusivity in Procurement: Entry Points in the Project Cycle This Guidance Note is intended to provide a brief overview of ways in which inclusivity, including Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI), can be introduced into a typical project cycle in multilateral development banks (MDBs) as good practice. This Guidance includes actions, approaches and options that could […]

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ICED Closure Event: Summary Proceedings

As the ICED Facility draws to a close on 31 July 2019, the ICED Facility co-hosted a closure event with DFID on 17 July, which convened key stakeholders including DFID and ICED Facility management and technical teams and clients to discuss the Facility’s outcomes, and key lessons learnt from its operation between 2016-2019. This document […]

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Youth Scoping Study: Boosting Youth Employment through Infrastructure Programming

This study is one of four studies focusing on ICED’s priority areas – youth, disability, women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and violence against women and girls (VAWG). The terms of reference (TOR) was developed with the Youth and Education Team in DFID London. The key objective of the study is to assess what work is currently […]

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Enabling private investment in informal settlements: Exploring the potential of community finance

In this paper, we explore the potential of community finance to enable private investment in informal settlements of Asia and Africa. Community finance refers to the savings and collective capacity of residents of low-income communities, working together. Community finance is founded on women-led savings groups within informal settlements, which are formed among neighbours who are […]

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Country Infrastructure Sector Diagnostics

DFID requested support from the ICED facility to develop short summaries on the status of the infrastructure in 16 countries or regions, in support of Country Development Diagnostics (CDDs). This is to ensure that the state of economic infrastructure in all DFID countries is analysed in a consistent manner. The summaries provide a strategic overview […]

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Delivering Disability Inclusive Infrastructure in Low Income Countries

This document has been developed in response to DFID’s commitment to provide guidance and support on disability inclusive infrastructure. It sets out key enabling features to deliver infrastructure as part of a journey to leave no-one behind. The document sets out key challenges and opportunities in legislating for, designing and financing Disability inclusive infrastructure (DII), […]

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Sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH): Infrastructure Tool

The infrastructure sector presents a high-risk environment for incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH). DFID’s Safeguarding Unit has identified infrastructure as a priority focus area and has commissioned this tool to identify and mitigate SEAH risks across DFID’s infrastructure programming. This tool has been developed specifically for DFID advisers, programme managers […]

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Raising the gender empowerment ambitions of PIDG’s investments

Over the past couple of years, the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) have been looking for ways to enhance their contribution to gender equality and empowerment.  They aren’t alone in this – it is an increasingly important area for investors and Governments. This momentum around gender-lens investing has offered up plenty of opportunities to learn […]

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Briefing Paper: Violence against Women and Girls, Infrastructure and Cities

This paper provides a framework for how to address violence against women and girls (VAWG) through programming and policy dialogue on infrastructure and cities. It aims to support DFID advisers and programme managers to integrate VAWG as an important consideration of all urban and infrastructure programming and policy dialogue. The paper is divided into four […]

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Top reading resources for building in disability

One billion people, or 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability, and disability prevalence is higher in developing countries. This important topic will form the focus of DFID’s forthcoming Disability Summit, ahead of which we thought we should share our top recommended reads for all donors and programme implementers wanting to build […]

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