PPP

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Violence and the threat of violence holds back economic growth in urban areas, limiting women’s mobility, access to economic opportunities, and the ability to move into higher paid or more secure jobs. This paper looks at how to build gender-transformative safe spaces programmes to improve women and girls’ safety and mobility in urban spaces.