finance

This summary paper provides an overview of the global water security and related financing challenge. It forms the first part of a four-part series of summary papers based on research, commissioned through ICED, on innovative financing approaches to mobilise public and private financing for freshwater management.

This summary paper looks at some of the most promising technological innovations in water resource management, to provide context for explanations of anticipated financial flows. It forms the second part of a four-part series of summary papers based on research, commissioned through ICED, on innovative financing approaches to mobilise public and private financing for freshwater […]

This summary paper looks at various funding innovations in water resource management. It forms the third part of a four-part series of summary papers based on research, commissioned through ICED, on innovative financing approaches to mobilise public and private financing for freshwater management.

This summary paper looks at financially sustainable interventions in water resource management. It forms the final part of a four-part series of summary papers based on research, commissioned through the ICED Facility, on innovative financing approaches to mobilise public and private financing for freshwater management.

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 […]

Infrastructure financing in Nigeria for both the public and private sectors is predominantly sourced from a mix of sources: the annual budget of the Federal Government of Nigeria (“FGN”), the private sector through traditional commercial bank loans, and from development finance institutions such as the Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC”) and the African Development Bank (“AfDB”), […]

On 4 April 2019, DFID hosted a session coordinated by Infrastructure and Cities for Economic Development (ICED) to explore mechanisms for mobilising finance for investment in urban water infrastructure. During the session, more than 15 leading development practitioners and financiers shared their viewpoints on how to achieve the goal of mobilising more than $6.7 trillion […]