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Renewable energies and energy efficiency: Beauty and the Beast

Policies to develop renewable energies and energy efficiency are essential in order to tackle the looming energy crisis. Although least developed countries enjoy real potential, the required transform...

Harnessing non-state education providers through innovative financing

If properly harnessed, the non-state education sector has the potential to improve access to quality education services for the poor. Significant gaps remain among governments and donors in developing...

Mining, the key to unlocking Africa's independent power producer markets

The size of power needs in most African countries and the investment required limits the number of projects that can realistically be funded in-country. The private sector could help, particularly whe...

How does TA have an impact on companies? Testimonies from three beneficiary organizations

Interview with Ravi Shankar, Director, Africure Pharmaceuticals; Michelle Espinach, Sustainable bank manager, Banco Promerica; Patrick Joseph, Regional control and audit manager, Mission Laïque França...

Making the private health sector deliver for the poorest: common sense or blind optimism?

Many international donors propagate the belief that Universal Health Coverage (UHC) can be achieved by enlarging the private health-care sector in low-income countries. Oxfam suggests that there are s...

Integrating the informal sector for improved waste management

In many cities of the developing countries, the informal sector plays an important role in managing municipal solid waste.  The informal recovery of recyclables from the solid waste system reduces ove...

Meeting the challenge of sustainable forest management

Forests serve ecological functions (they regulate the water cycle, sequester carbon and help preserve biodiversity), social functions (providing places to live, a means of subsistence) and economic fu...

Earthen construction, an additional way to house the planet

Building locally using earth could be one solution to the construction needs of the world's population. Raw earth is available in many places on the planet and answers the major contemporary ecologica...

Beyond PPPs: the World Economic Forum Water Initiative, a Multi-stakeholder Approach

The World Economic Forum’s public-private water initiative in South Africa and India showed that “Brokerage Networks”, involving stakeholders across all sectors, proved successful in conceptualising,...

Meeting the challenge of funding the transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient societies

Current funding levels are insufficient to limit global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, despite resources such as some of the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms. For a successful transition to a lo...

Profitability and development hand in hand

A question frequently asked is whether profitability is the only criterion to be taken into consideration when private equity is evaluated. By itself, profitability is not an adequate basis on which t...

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