Infrastructure Knowledge Exchange

This report sets out several recent advances and describes efforts to improve the quality of Transport Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and its applicability to decision-making.

JASPERS is a technical assistance partnership between the EIB and the European Commission. JASPERS provides technical expertise for any stage of the project cycle from the early stages of project conception through to the final application for EU funding.

The G20/OECD Checklist consists of a list of questions and issues that represent an effort to develop an evaluation tool to help those countries who wish to self-assess their long-term investment (LTI) strategy and policy framework and more.

The Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF) was set up in 2009 by the European Union (EU), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Council of Europe Bank (CEB) and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) to contribute to the stability, reform and EU accession in the Western Balkans and enhance the harmonisation and cooperation in investments for the socio-economic development of the Western Balkans.

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.

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.

The MIF aims to expand and embed the PPP concept in Latin America and the Caribbean at both the national and sub-national levels.

The African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF), a dedicated renewable energy fund focused on sub-Saharan Africa closed with USD100 million of committed capital to support small to medium scale independent power producers (IPPs).

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.

The aim of the Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility (NIAF) programme is to facilitate and accelerate infrastructure reform and development by improving access to technical assistance responsive to the particular issues encountered by the public and private sectors in infrastructure.

CIO is designed to combat the detrimental effects of climate change by accelerating the delivery of renewable energy projects in developing and emerging markets.

The Fund finances non-reimbursable technical cooperation operations to support IADB borrowing member countries to manage risks related to natural hazards.

PPIAF is a catalyst for increasing private sector participation in emerging markets.

Pacific Infrastructure Advisory Center (PIAC) to analyze, plan, and implement PRIF-funded interventions. The PIAC is an interim mechanism pending the design and full mobilization of the PRIF itself, although it is expected that the PIAC will be absorbed within the broader PRIF.

LAIF's main purpose is to promote additional sustainable investment in key infrastructure in the transport, energy, and environment sectors, as well as support private sector development in LAC countries.

The Clean Technology Fund (CTF), which aims at promoting scaled?up deployment and transfer of clean technologies by funding low?carbon programmes and projects that have significant potential for long?term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings.

The objective of the facility is to support the IADB's borrowing countries in the implementation of PPPs through development and improvement of regulatory frameworks and institutional capacity for PPPs, identification, evaluation, and more.

A practical guide for governments, informed by a country-lens review of leading practices

The Project Readiness Assessment (PRA) is a standardized tool managed and financed by the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF).