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  • Report  |   2005

    East Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Project: Partial Risk Guarantee
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The World Bank Group played a key role in supporting the revitalization of the Kenya-Uganda Railway, which would in turn deepen regional integration of transportation services and increase connectivity within East Africa. In addition to the $32 million financing and advisory services provided by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2006...

  • Report  |   May 2017

    Mobile Metropolises: Urban Transport Matters
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The evaluation exercise focuses on three themes that cut across strategies and project designs during FY07–16: mobility for all (including the poor, women, and persons with disabilities), sustainable service delivery, and institutional development. In spite of the pressing need arising from rapid urbanization, Africa has a declining urban...

  • Report  |   2017

    Linking Up: Public-Private Partnerships in Power Transmission in Africa
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    Creating enabling environments often requires regulatory changes to attract private sector financing. This report examines the global experience in successful private sector-led investments in power transmission and their applicability within the Sub-Saharan African context. It draws lessons from these experiences, highlights what regulations and...

  • Report  |   2012

    Kenya: Adaptable Program Lending for Infrastructure Finance and Public-Private Partnership Project
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    This World Bank project appraisal document discusses an example of how the World Bank used its technical assistance loans to support the Infrastructure Finance and Public-Private Partnership Project in Kenya. The overall objective of this $40 million loan is to increase private investment in Kenya’s infrastructure, and to sustain private sector...

  • Report  |   2012

    Project Appraisal Document on a Proposed Grant for Kenya: Adaptable Program Lending for Infrastructure Finance and Public-Private Partnership Project
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    This World Bank project appraisal document discusses an example of how the World Bank used its technical assistance loans to support the Infrastructure Finance and Public-Private Partnership Project in Kenya. The overall objective of this $40 million loan is to increase private investment in Kenya’s infrastructure, and to sustain private sector...

  • Report  |   January 2018

    Air Transport Annual Report 2017
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The 13th edition of the World Bank Group (WBG) Air Transport Annual Report, outlines the support that is given to emerging and developing countries in air transportation. It summarizes the current portfolio of the air transport practice at the WBG, and highlights some of the projects in more detail. The above described new approach of financing...

  • Report  |   2016

    Indonesia: First Indonesia Logistics Reform Development Policy Loan Project
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    Development Policy Loans (DPL) provide support to governments for a program of policy and institutional actions to help achieve sustainable and shared growth. The policy actions are a result of careful research analysis, stakeholder discussions and deliberation by both the government and the World Bank. The development objective of the First...

  • Report  |   2017

    Toolkit on Cross-Infrastructure Sharing: Module 8 of the Broadband Strategies Toolkit
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The World Bank's ICT Sector Unit initiated the development of this web-based cross-sector infrastructure sharing toolkit. Providing key stakeholders in the joint use of passive infrastructure by telecommunications operators and public utilities as both a reference point and learning tool. The overall objective is to capitalize on synergies...

  • Report  |   2013

    Hydropower and Regional Development: Case Studies
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    IFC’s Good Practice Handbook on Cumulative Impact Assessment Management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets is now available online. This handbook proposes a six-step process that guides private sector companies and emerging markets in the effective design and implementation measures to manage  cumulative impacts. Energy World...

  • Report  |   2014

    Project Appraisal Document on a Proposed Grant for Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) – Program for Accelerating Transformational Energy Projects

    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The Southern African Power Pool Program for Accelerating Transformational Energy Projects in Africa objective is to advance the preparation of selected priority regional energy projects in participating countries. The project is comprised of three components: setting up the projects acceleration team, project preparation funds and regional...

  • Report  |   2009

    Toolkit for Public-Private Partnerships in Roads and Highways
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The Toolkit for Public-Private Partnerships in Roads and Highways is a multimedia reference guide for policy makers and transport professionals to develop enabling environments, to promote private sector participation and financing in the development of their road and highway sector. Presented in six modules, each presenting a specific subject...

  • Report  |   2011

    Railway Reform: Toolkit for Improving Rail Sector Performance
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The Railway Reform Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to navigating the challenging process of railway reforms. It provides not only an easy-to-use resource on the rail industry, but also an experience-based set of best practices to aid in the planning and execution of railway reforms. It is based on international experiences with railway reform...

  • Report  |   2017

    Belarus: Enhancing Border-Crossing Time Release Studies to Support Trade Facilitation Reforms
    Author(s): Gabrielyan, Gagik ; Kerswell, Clayton ; Shemshenya, Irina ; Abrashkevich, Aliaksandr

    Belarus is a member of Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), bordering three European Union (EU) countries (Poland,Lithuania and Latvia), Ukraine and Russia. As such, the country is strategically located for international transit trade. With the aim of boosting the country’s transit role, the government of Belarus is undertaking several infrastructure...

  • Report  |   2013

    Moving Forward: Developing Highway PPPs in Lao PDR
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) report provides an overview of how Laos’ vision to transform itself from a landlocked to a “land-linked” country in the heart of the Greater Mekong Subregion can be realized through improving its highway network. It advises the Government of Lao on the necessary considerations and steps...

  • Report  |   2014

    Build-Operate-Transfer Concession for the Queen Alia Airport in Jordan
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    This webpage provides an example of a transaction in which multilateral development banks played a role in facilitating Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). It also demonstrates the value of private sector capital in infrastructure financing and the complexity of implementation. In the case of Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA), the...

  • Report  |   2015

    Private Sector Participation in Electricity Transmission and Distribution: Experiences from Brazil, Peru, the Philippines, and Turkey
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    In recent decades, many countries have embarked on structural reform programs involving private sector participation (PSP) across the entire value chain of the power sector. Often as part of a broader market oriented reform program, governments have resorted to PSP in transmission and distribution (T and D) for a variety of reasons, including to...

  • Book  |   August 2018

    The Web of Transport Corridors in South Asia
    Author(s): Asian Development Bank ; UKAID / Department of International Development (DfID) ; JICA ; World Bank Group

    This report develops a holistic appraisal methodology to ensure that economic benefits of investments in transport corridors are amplified and more widely spread, and possible negative impacts such as congestion, environmental degradation, and other unintended consequences are minimized. It focuses on South Asia—not only as one of the world’s...

  • Report  |   2008

    Building Regional Power Pools: A Toolkit (English)
    Author(s): World Bank Group

    The purpose of the toolkit is to facilitate knowledge transfer among World Bank Group staff and clients on how to design and prepare projects that support the development of cross-border power transmission infrastructure within the framework of regional power pooling mechanisms. The toolkit has a modular structure: the "road map"...

  • Policy Brief  |   2016

    Innovation by Design: Conducting a Border-Crossing Time-Release Study in Belarus
    Author(s): Tetyora, Victoria ; Shemshenya, Irina ; Abrashkevich, Aliaksandr

    In 2015, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) conducted a border-crossing time-release study (TRS) at three points on the Belarus border. The joint team customized a standard survey methodology to gather a wider range of data as well as to overcome time and other resource constraints. This smart lesson describes the team’s...

  • Presentation  |   2017

    Pacific Aviation Investment Program
    Author(s): R. Bennett, Christopher ; J. De Se, Christopher

    Transport R. Bennett, Christopher; J. De Se, Christopher Download PDF http://www.lpcb.org/index.php/documents/papers-and-reports/presentations-2/other... aviation runway security All Presentation World Bank Group 2017-01-01 00:00:00

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