Infrastructure Knowledge Exchange

The 10-year-long Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) set out to substantially reduce impacts from natural disasters by 2015.

This booklet aims to provide a platform for sharing the knowledge gained through a review of best practice case studies within Australia’s public sector.

Australian governments have developed national guidelines for the delivery of infrastructure projects to promote cross-government consistency and the use of best practice approaches.

The procurement guidelines were introduced in April 2015 by ADB. The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), ADB-financed grant, or ADB-administered funds.

The report identifies and illustrates three critical success factors that governments should be aware of and should seriously consider for their operations and mainteance strategies.

The Renewable Infrastructure Investment Handbook is a guide for institutional investors who are interested in climate finance.

The Global Agenda Council on Latin America have illustrated, through a series of brief case studies, the creativity and commitment displayed throughout the region in the design and execution of innovative public-private partnerships.

Given the pivotal role of public finance agencies in scaling up climate finance, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) have a major role to play in mainstreaming climate change and in providing finance in an effective, catalytic manner.

In June 2016, under Japanese presidency, G7 Leaders endorsed “G7 Ise- Shima Principles for Promoting Quality Infrastructure Investment,” which has crystalized as definition of quality infrastructure investment.

Large-scale port projects have big impacts on the local economy and affect the way that the regional and national economy operates, with major implications for investment in regional transport systems.

This taxonomy developed by OECD maps out investment options available to private investors, identifying channels through which they can invest in infrastructure projects.

The paper “Partnering to Build a Better World: MDBs’ Common Approaches to Supporting Infrastructure Development” presents a brief description of how MDBs work with their Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) .

The Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools developed by the World Bank, provide a systematic, consistent, and transparent way of considering short- and long-term climate and disaster risks in project and national/sector planning processes.

The Decision Tree Framework is a robust decision scaling approach from the World Bank that provides resource-limited project planners and program managers with a cost-effective and effort-efficient, scientifically defensible, repeatable, and clear method for demonstrating the robustness of a project to climate change.

Alberta’s Public-Private Partnership Framework and Guideline is a guide for assessing and procuring PPP projects.

The “General Guidelines for Preliminary Feasibility Studies” (hereinafter “General Guidelines”) have served as a basic manual for conducting all preliminary feasibility studies and include the methods and standards for doing so.

The PPP Manual provides overall guidance on the steps to carry out a PPP project.

The Management Framework: Assessment Process document is a guide to Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation’s approach to assessing and approving public-private partnerships for capital infrastructure projects.

This document provides advice related to fluvial flood risk management that addresses strategic planning, environmentally sensitive design and the implementation of works.

sustainABLE is a free online platform modelled on research jointly published by UNOPS and the University of Oxford-led Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium. The extensive research explored the critical role of infrastructure in achieving the SDGs. The tool aims to advance the SDGs by promoting practical measures that encourage project sustainability across a broad range of sectors.