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To mainstream PPPs in the water sector, implement a holistic governance framework, foster an enabling environment, and incorporate transaction design.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
Design a framework that minimizes extra-contractual renegotiations and upholds prudence and transparency.
Policy challenges include the shift in financial intermediation away from traditional banks toward digital finance providers.
A sound governance framework, supported by qualitative and quantitative value for money analysis, maximizes benefits from infrastructure investments.
Challenges include creating an enabling environment, national and sectoral planning, multiyear assessment of fiscal risks, and gaps in project preparation.
Support pastoralist-led governance with policies, finance, rights, restoration, and monitoring to sustain mobility, ecosystems, and grassland resilience.
A Korean firm develops a low-maintenance flowmeter that can measure a wide variation of sewage flow rates to improve efficiency and prevent flooding.
This piece highlights how sustainable tourism development can support the empowerment of women and minorities.
Empowering women to take greater control over their resources would give them the tools for lifelong change.