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Mar 23, 2023

Creating Markets in Chad: Country Private Sector Diagnostic

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

English - 106 pages, French - 19 pages | | 2023 IFC

Mar 22, 2023

Strengthening Sustainability | Decarbonizing Manufacturing Industries

Manufacturing is essential for economic growth, and its supply chains are pivotal for ensuring the wellbeing and advancement of people and economies. Among the largest and most critical manufacturing industries are steel, cement, glass, and chemicals.

English | 18 pages | IFC 2023

Mar 15, 2023

Smarter Systems: How tweaking your diligence process can unlock overlooked opportunities

This toolkit, developed by Village Capital in partnership with IFC, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), and academic research partners Amisha Miller and Saurabh Lall, includes two action-oriented implementation guides — one for individual and institutional investors and one for incubator and accelerator leaders.

Mar 14, 2023

Changing Lives: Private Sector Solutions for Helping Small Farmers

This report highlights the ways that Global Agriculture and Security Program's blended finance investments and advisory support unlocks opportunity for smallholder farmers in some of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries.

English | 64 pages

Mar 10, 2023

IFC Ebuses Toolkit

IFC Electric Bus Toolkit: Accelerating Electric Bus Adoption

English | 4 pages | IFC 2023

Mar 9, 2023

Greening Equity Investments in Financial Institutions

The Approach to Greening Equity Investments will help client financial institutions increase their climate related lending while reducing their exposure to coal to zero or near zero by 2030.

Mar 7, 2023

Tip Sheet for Financial Intermediaries — Sample Environmental & Social-Related Contractual Provisions for Legal Agreements Between a Financial Intermediary and Its Clients

This publication provides an overview of common environmental and social contractual provisions and sample language for such provisions..

7 pages | @ March 2023 IFC | Complimentary

Mar 7, 2023

Technical Guidance for Financial Institutions — Assessment of Greenhouse Gases

This publication is a compilation of publicly available sources concerning the methodologies and tools available to guide financial institutions assess, set targets, and disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

50 pages | © March 2023 IFC | Complimentary

Mar 5, 2023

Mind The Gaps: Getting more women into leadership in Vietnam’s banking sector

The report, Mind the gap: Getting more women into leadership in Vietnam’s banking sector is a joint effort between IFC and the State Bank of Vietnam. The report, based on surveys of nearly 40,000 banking sector employees in Vietnam as well as interviews and focus groups with middle and senior management representatives in the sector, provides a snapshot of where women and men are employed, challenges women can face in their banking careers, and opportunities for banks to close gender gaps in leadership.

Feb 24, 2023

Tip Sheet: Guidance for Boards of Directors on Overseeing Gender-Based Violence and Harassment Risk

This tip sheet offers guidance to Boards of Directors on the effective governance of gender-based violence and harassment risks.

16 pages | © February 2023 IFC | Complimentary

Feb 24, 2023

Sector Overview | Global Infrastructure

Emerging markets face massive infrastructure gaps. Building smart and sustainable infrastructure helps improve economic efficiency and increase climate resilience. It also supports inclusive and sustainable growth, creates jobs, and improves lives by connecting people to basic services such as digital access, power, and clean water. IFC offers long-term financing, sustainabilitylinked financing, and industry-leading expertise, partnering with the private sector to develop infrastructure projects that provide essential services while ensuring that social and environmental standards are met.

English | 2 pages | IFC 2023

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.