The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) has now signed a consultancy contract for the development of a reference tool to address inclusion in large infrastructure projects.
World leaders gathering at the UN General Assembly in September 2015 adopted a much-heralded new set of development goals with the worthy aims of lifting communities across the globe out of poverty and improving lives, but 18 months later, new research from the Global Infrastructure Hub has revealed that on current investment trends we will fail, by a wide margin, to meet the electricity and water goals by 2030.
The GI Hub is today launching its new report, Global Infrastructure Outlook, an analysis with Oxford Economics of infrastructure investment needs across 50 countries and 7 sectors to 2040.
Infrastructure is crucial to Africa’s growth prospects. It’s also hard to get right, a reality acknowledged by delegates from around the continent and further afield who recently gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for Africa’s First Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance.
A new global survey of major international institutional investors has found strong investor demand for infrastructure, including record levels of interest in emerging market infrastructure with 37.5% of all investors now active in these growing markets.
The second International Forum of Public-Private Partnerships was held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil between 18th - 20th October, attended by GI Hub staff Daniel Fedson, Director, Cleyton Barros, Principal Policy Advisor and Jack Handford, Principal Advisor.
Ensuring disadvantaged communities have access to adequate infrastructure is a key goal of a new Hub tool, writes Morag Baird, Senior Manager, Leading Practices and Policy, GI Hub.
Africa’s first roundtable on infrastructure governance is taking place in Cape Town this week. Chris Heathcote, CEO of GI Hub, which is participating, shares his views on the opportunities that infrastructure development offers African countries and some of the obstacles to the success of such projects.
