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July 2017 QLL Event Recap

On 13 July, the ICED team delivered the quarterly lessons learnt workshop exploring how infrastructure programming can promote women’s economic empowerment. The workshop drew on ICED experience from the Pakistan…

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July 2017 QLL Summary

…workshops at DFID’s offices in Whitehall and remotely. These workshops presented recent lessons learnt from across the ICED facility’s work, including from our urban, economic development, infrastructure, and FCAS portfolios….

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Urban Growth Diagnostics – Kasama, Zambia

…the economic hub for Northern and Muchinga provinces. The town has a cluster of agro-processing and retail businesses and is experiencing diversification, but lack of skills and infrastructure hampers growth….

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Urban Growth Diagnostic – Livingstone, Zambia

Livingstone is the tourism capital of Zambia. The economy is relatively undiversified and the city needs improvements in urban infrastructure, services, sector skills and diversification to ensure growth and attractiveness…

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Disability inclusion: The basics

One billion people, or 15% of the world’s population, experience some form of disability, and disability prevalence is higher in developing countries. Infrastructure and cities are vehicles for increasing DI…

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What does good disability inclusion look like?

…and disability prevalence is higher in developing countries. This short paper sets out key themes to consider when designing, or pivoting infrastructure and cities programming, that will improve disability inclusion….

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Case Study: Disability inclusive education in Pakistan

This case study highlights the opportunity for DFID urban growth, infrastructure and transport programmes to build disability inclusion into programming activities, using examples from the delivery of school construction in…

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Top reading resources for building in disability

…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 disability inclusion into infrastructure and…

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The Southern African context: Economic indicators, trends and intra-regional trade

This briefing note, extracted from a full report entitled Trade infrastructure: Programming options in Southern Africa presents some important economic indicators and trends to show how diverse the economies are…

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Surplus power generation capacity in sub-Saharan Africa

For many years it has been a given that countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have needed more power generation capacity. A key focus for donors and International Financial Institutions (IFIs)…

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