Infrastructure

There are growing opportunities to utilise digital solutions to solve urban service delivery challenges. Opportunities  include the potential to better plan services for citizens, improving the value for money of LGAs investments an leveraging private sector support. In 2017 the ICED programme developed a positioning paper ‘Urbanisation in a Digital World’, reviewed the potential for […]

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 […]

DFID’s recent Inclusive Growth Diagnostics highlighted that in many DFID priority countries energy is a key constraint to economic growth. Energy reform is highly political, and any attempts to support sector reform without an understanding of the domestic and international political landscape are likely to fail. This case study seeks to draw out key success […]

Investors developing private solar projects in Africa have been deterred from entering the market by obstacles such as high transaction costs, heavily negotiated agreements, high risk and the cost of capital. The IFC Scaling Solar Programme was initiated to de-risk the bidding process and to enable project developers to compete on a “like-for-like” basis. The […]

This case study explores the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) financing instrument provided by the Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) to the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) project development and financing facilities. VGF helps PIDG facilities offset part of the up-front preparation costs of pro-poor private infrastructure investments in challenging environments that prevent projects towards attracting debt […]

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 […]

Nigeria’s power sector value chain suffered from debilitating obstacles such as chronic underinvestment, system inefficiencies, poor planning and skill gaps. The Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility (NIAF), a demand-driven technical assistance programme, supported the Federal Government of Nigeria to address these infrastructure bottlenecks, freeing up non-oil growth in the wider economy.

The Centre for Inclusive Growth (CIG) was initially set-up as a think-tank to inform economic policy and help tackle Nepal’s growth constraints associated with inadequate infrastructure, flawed macro-economic management and weak policy coherence. It became apparent however that such an approach would not deliver results due to Nepal’s governance constraints. As a result, CIG shifted […]

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 […]

Creating safe and inclusive environments is a top priority for UK government, who have signed up to several international commitments in this area, including Sustainable Development Goal 11 to ‘make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, with a target that directly contributes to addressing women and girls’ safety in communities and public […]