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Feb 23, 2023

Sector Overview | Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory

Across the infrastructure sector, companies are facing increasing demands for corporate transparency and stakeholder engagement. Institutional investors and shareholders are aware of the connection between stronger environmental, social, and governance standards and reduced project risks. Leading companies are exploring new ways to ensure that local communities share in the benefits of their projects. Many companies also ensure that operations remain sustainable for the long term.

English | 2 pages | IFC 2023

Feb 22, 2023

Placing Gender Equality at the Center of Climate Action

Feb 22, 2023

IFC SCF Market Assessment Uganda_2023

This IFC assessment shows that the current market for supply chain finance in Uganda is worth approximately 7.5 trillion Ugandan shillings, equivalent to $2.1 billion.

Feb 21, 2023

Lower NPLs for Women-Owned SMEs

Feb 21, 2023

Insuring Women in Ghana with Activa International Insurance Company

Feb 21, 2023

Destination Management Handbook

The Destination Management Handbook has been prepared by the World Bank Group to highlight the challenges and opportunities that destination managers face at all stages of tourism development.

Feb 16, 2023

Infrastructure Sectors Overview

Infrastructure Sectors Overview

English | 2022 IFC

Feb 16, 2023

Study on social norms hindering financial inclusion and financial capability of consumers in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan

Social norms – the informal rules that influence how people behave and expect others to behave – can play a significant role in driving financial decisions, including how, where, and what people save for. The effect that social norms have on the financial inclusion of specific target populations is an emerging field of research whose importance is becoming increasingly recognized, but which has not been systematically analyzed or incorporated into financial inclusion programming. This study aims to address this knowledge gap, by providing deep, actionable insights into savings and financial planning behaviors. It diagnoses the factors driving women’s and youth’s savings and financial planning behaviors, including the extent to which social norms influence their decision and ability to save formally and more productively, as well as why, and how they are enforced.

English | 140 pages | 2022 IFC

Feb 15, 2023

Making Sustainability-Linked Bonds More Impactful

To maximize the impact of sustainability-linked bonds and maintain recent market growth, how they are structured and regulated needs to evolve, IFC research finds.

Feb 14, 2023

Creating Markets in Moldova: Country Private Sector Diagnostic

The Moldova Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) provides IFC & World Bank analysis of growth and investment opportunities, constraints, & policy recommendations.

English | 225 pages | 2023 IFC

Feb 14, 2023

Sector Overview | Telecoms, Media & Technology

Digital connectivity is the foundation of a flourishing economy and an informed society. It is essential for the running of e-government and other critical services including education, health, and finance. Digital infrastructure is also key to a green and climate-resilient global economy, enabling the development of smart, sustainable cities and energy grids that deliver clean and reliable power, among other components of a low-carbon future.

English | 2 pages | IFC 2023

Feb 13, 2023

Sector Overview | Waste Management

Two billion people worldwide lack access to basic municipal solid waste collection services. More than 90 percent of waste in low-income countries continues to be burned or openly dumped. Society’s most vulnerable are paying a high price: injury, illness, and loss of life from working in unsafe waste-picking conditions. The environment is also paying a high price, with our oceans choking on plastic waste, valuable land being contaminated by uncontrolled leachate, and methane emissions from landfills and dumpsites leading to significant greenhouse gas emissions.

English | 2 pages | IFC 2023

Feb 7, 2023

Want More Investment in African Infrastructure? Think Better Quality Institutions

An IFC study finds that improvements in governance and regulatory quality could boost private investment in African infrastructure by up to 0.8% of GDP over 4 years.

Feb 7, 2023

Pour attirer plus d’investissements dans les infrastructures africaines, il faut commencer par améliorer les institutions

Selon une étude d’IFC, l’amélioration de la gouvernance et de la réglementation pourrait stimuler les investissements privés dans les infrastructures africaines à hauteur de 0,8 % du PIB sur quatre ans.

Jan 24, 2023

Women Farmers in Niger Embrace Drip Irrigation and Become Smallholder Producers

Agriculture accounts for 40 percent of Niger’s GDP. Most of it is based on smallholder farming, and nearly 85 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their subsistence.

Jan 23, 2023

Untapping the Potential of the Sugarcane Sector in India

Women are key in the sugarcane industry and have an untapped potential to contribute to the growth of the sector.

Jan 23, 2023

Case Study: Exploring Client Approaches to Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response - Energia del Pacifico, Infrastructure, El Salvador

In a country with a high prevalence of Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Harassment (GBVH) (estimated to cost the GDP 3.9% (2019), Energia del Pacifico (EDP) recognized the need to go beyond minimum environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements to boost its ESG performance and manage GBV risks.

13 pages | © January 2023 | Complimentary

Jan 18, 2023

UNHCR and IFC cooperation for the inclusion of refugees and migrants in Brazil

IFC and UNHCR have been working together since 2018 to create innovative solutions to overcome the challenges faced by refugees and migrants in Brazil. This factsheet highlights the projects and key results of the partnership in the country, which explores potential ways to engage the private sector in creating jobs, increasing access to affordable housing, and promoting financial inclusion.

English, 4 pages | Portuguese, 4 pages | 2023 IFC

Jan 10, 2023

IFC年次報告書2022

Jan 5, 2023

Sector Overview | Energy

Energy access drives inclusive growth, creates jobs and strengthens economies. IFC helps bridge the development divide in emerging markets by financing power generation, transmission and distribution projects. IFC’s investment and advisory work takes place across a range of technologies, with an emphasis on low-cost renewable energy.

English | 2 pages | IFC 2023

Jan 1, 2023

Case Study: Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (AC Health)

Ayala Corporation, the parent organization that launched AC Health, is a much larger conglomerate, still controlled primarily by the same family that founded it in 1834. During the past decade, parent and startup have both defined their core purpose as making life better for all Filipinos.

Dec 20, 2022

The State of Gender Equality in Corporate Leadership: Market Monitors for Latin America, G20, Regional

The United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative in partnership with IFC and UN Women have produced these three market monitors to present a ranking of stock exchanges based on gender balance of issuers’ boards in Latin America, G20, and regional markets.

6 pages | © December 2022 IFC | Complimentary

Dec 20, 2022

Sourcing of Post-Industrial Cotton Textile Waste in the Tangier Area, Morocco

This report analyses the post-industrial cotton textile waste in the Tangier area, Morocco, to support the textile and apparel sector’s transition towards circular models of production.

English | 39 pages | 2022 IFC

Dec 16, 2022

DigiPharma | Helping Pharmaceutical Companies with Digitalization

DigiPharma is a digital strategy enabler that is supporting the transition to digitalization in pharma

English | 2 pages | 2022 IFC

Dec 16, 2022

DigiHealth | Helping Health Companies with Digitalization

DigiHealth is a digital strategy enabler that is supporting digitalization in healthcare.

English | 2 pages | 2022 IFC