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The daily grind of street vendors comes with a host of obvious business challenges: sourcing and preparing goods to sell; attracting a steady stream of customers; and generating enough take-home pay to survive. It’s a hustle, and one that these roadside entrepreneurs know well. But the hustle only goes so far. Conducting their livelihoods in […]

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 […]

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 […]

Maximising the Value for Monday of donor investments is vital to ensuring the outcomes and impact promised by programmes, and therefore critical to delivering inclusive growth and poverty reduction in developing countries. In 2016 ICED co-developed a series of ‘How-To’ guides setting out succinct, easy-to-follow advice on how to deliver Value for Money with a […]