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Infrastructure Monitor identifies and analyses global trends in private investment in infrastructure to inform future investment and policy.

This World Bank report explores innovative ways to scale private financing for climate adaptation and nature-based infrastructure in developing economies. Drawing on global case studies, it unpacks financing models, cost-recovery strategies, and enabling environment reforms to unlock investment in resilience-building projects—from flood protection and water security to urban cooling and biodiversity restoration.

InfraCompass helps governments improve policies, institutions, and systems to optimise infrastructure investment.

InfraTracker tracks public investment in infrastructure to help governments shape programs and budgets that achieve the best outcomes.

Resources and examples showcase technology’s role in improving infrastructure performance, and solutions to finance technology and manage risk.

This initiative is helping governments shape future infrastructure to meet global climate targets and the SDGs with practical, accessible research and open consultations.

This original research on infrastructure megatrends inspires the creation of future infrastructure.

This resource and its hundreds of case studies give project proponents a catalogue of proven mechanisms to fund and finance infrastructure.

The Improving Delivery Models database of globally proven solutions empowers project teams to avoid and resolve common infrastructure delivery challenges.

This research helps governments and industry ensure that infrastructure investment supports climate mitigation and adaptation, resilience, and inclusive outcomes during challenging economic times.

Detailed recommendations based on global benchmarks guide the allocation of risk on PPP projects to optimise value for money.

The Inclusive Infrastructure recommendations help project teams ensure positive and equitable social benefits from infrastructure.

The CEI initiative drives understanding and adoption of circular infrastructure to reduce resource use and carbon emissions from infrastructure across its lifecycle.

This guide to project preparation helps governments bring pipelines of bankable projects to market.

Our examination of infrastructure banking regulations aims to unlock more private investment in infrastructure.

Detailed recommendations based on global benchmarks serve as a model for output specifications that drive value for money.

This Guidance Note prepares governments to set up or reform national infrastructure banks and accelerate projects to market.

The QII database provides hundreds of resources to improve the quality of infrastructure in alignment with the G20 QII principles and UN SDGs.

This guide to global best practices helps project teams successfully deliver infrastructure that crosses national borders.

Detailed recommendations based on global benchmarks support PPP contract management that delivers value for money.

InfraChallenge is an innovation competition for technology companies that accelerates their transition from start-up to at-scale.

Outlook forecasts infrastructure investment needed globally, nationally, and by sector so governments and industry can close the gap between need and planned investment.

AIFP equips African civil servants to effectively lead infrastructure project procurement and financing.

The following toolkits provide a set of practical tools to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation into PPP advisory work and project structuring. It includes an umbrella toolkit for multi-sector use and 5 sector-specific toolkits.

This toolkit helps governments and upstream advisors, PPP practitioners, multilateral development banks (MDBs), and private sector stakeholders mainstream gender
considerations in infrastructure PPPs.

This Primer seeks to assist public sector and other PPP practitioners who are considering PDF implementation. It focuses on understanding how and why PDFs are established, and how best to enable them to contribute to the success of PPP programs.

The Asset Recycling Handbook provides a roadmap for monetizing existing infrastructure assets and reinvesting the proceeds into new projects, a strategy to unlock capital and support further infrastructure development.