Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory

Sustainable infrastructure creates jobs, improves essential services, and strengthens communities through better transport, reliable energy, and responsible mining. The Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory (SIA) team helps clients identify practical opportunities to strengthen infrastructure and deliver better outcomes. By supporting investments that promote social inclusion and resilience in fragile and vulnerable settings, SIA helps create lasting benefits for people, businesses, and the environment.

What we do

The SIA team works with investors, companies, and local governments in emerging markets to advance infrastructure that delivers stronger environmental, social, and economic outcomes. Through advisory services, tools, and partnerships, we help clients:

• Expand access to affordable, quality infrastructure
• Strengthen local skills and capabilities to create jobs
• Drive economic growth rooted in community needs
• Manage climate adaptation and resilience

How we collaborate with clients and partners

• Climate: Advance decarbonization efforts, assess climate risks, strengthen resilience, and design just transition and nature-based solutions.
• Social Inclusion: Create more diverse and inclusive workplaces, supply chains, products, and services.
• Digital Data Governance and Accountability: Use data and AI in a responsible and practical way to improve sustainability, make better decisions, and build trust.
• Local Benefit Sharing: Boost job creation and benefit sharing through local stakeholder engagement, community investment strategy design, and local economic development projects.
• Sustainability-Linked Finance: Enhance impact through sustainability strategies, targets, and financing approaches that reward progress against sustainability goals.

The team manages ifcsia.org, a knowledge platform for practitioners working at the intersection of sustainability and infrastructure.