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Promoting Women’s empowerment through energy

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…

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Report: Transboundary waters in South Asia Unpacking evidence of contributions to sustainable development

The objective of this report is to analyse how investing in transboundary water infrastructure and governance contributes to sustainable and inclusive economic development, unpacking the assumptions being made into testable…

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Water for Economic Development: Evidence and Programming Entry Points

This briefing note provides an overview of the potential opportunities for integrating water considerations into infrastructure and wider economic development programming. The brief explains the underlying theories of change that…

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Revealing and strengthening the links between WASH, productivity, and well-being for informal vendors in South Africa and Kenya

…assumed that employers are responsible for providing WASH to employees, many workers in the ‘informal economy’ are self-employed and lack access to basic infrastructure, healthcare, or other social protection (ILO…

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Economic Growth Linkages Bibliography

In 2016 ICED undertook an extensive review of evidence available to support linkages between infrastructure delivery, support for improved urban productivity, and economic growth. The review was undertaken in order…

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Urban Productivity linkages to economic growth

…exploit agglomeration effects and economies of scale. These effects are not always present however and can be reduced where cities to not achieve the necessary levels of densification and infrastructure…

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Evidence: Urban Productivity linkages to economic growth

…exploit agglomeration effects and economies of scale. These effects are not always present however and can be reduced where cities to not achieve the necessary levels of densification and infrastructure…

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Addressing VAWG through coordinated urban planning

Better planning of urbanisation and infrastructure has the potential to create safer environments. However, effective operations and maintenance is essential to ensure the reliable provision of services. Street lights with…

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Case Study: Nairobi Railway and Community Relocation

The effective planning and delivery of vital infrastructure is central to realising the full economic potential of cities to drive growth and development. In Nairobi, improvements to the operation and…

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Lessons Learnt from DFID’s Urbanisation Research Nigeria (URN) Programme

…development and the provision of infrastructure. Findings are intended to contribute to the knowledge and evidence base for better urbanisation strategy, urban policy, and urban programming and management in Nigeria….

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