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An innovative model for basic education in Peru

Delivering quality in basic education remains a challenge for Peru. Innova Schools is tackling this through a fast growing programme that will, by 2020, cater for up to 70,000 students. This requires...

Rural electrification in Africa: An economic development opportunity?

Electricity is expensive and difficult to access in Sub-Saharan Africa. Improving infrastructures would accelerate the electrification of rural areas but requires a high level of funding. Decentralise...

Decentralised Services Companies: innovative partnerships for rural electrification in Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest electrification rates of all developing regions, and its rural areas are the most poorly provisioned of all. To meet this specific challenge, EDF and its partners hav...

The Philippines: a public-private partnership for educational development

In 2016, the Philippines will bring its educational system in line with other Southeast Asian countries, adding two years of senior high school. Building on the experience of a public-private partners...

Adding value at source in West Africa – a win-win-win scenario

Anthony Pile sets out to show that business opportunities abound in developing Africa, and not just because the cost of labour is relatively low. Indeed, he argues that, despite some local difficultie...

Growing a Business in a Growing Industry

Sub-Saharan Africa contains 11 % of the world's population but bears 24 % of the global disease burden¹ (World Bank). A recent the International Finance Corporation (IFC) study, with McKinsey, estimat...

Housing public-private partnerships in Latin America: lessons from Mexico and elsewhere

The complex challenge of building a home loans market in Ghana

Inadequate real-estate supply and the absence of a deep capital market have hampered the development of the home loans market in Ghana. The rapid success of Ghana Home Loans, which now provides nearly...

Regulated rental sector can meet the urban housing challenge

Governments in developing countries have rightly promoted homeownership as a way of alleviating poverty. But, faced with rapid population growth and the prospect of millions ending up in slums, they m...

A new generation of real-estate developers focusing on low-income housing

Developers who want to enter India's affordable housing market face many obstacles. But with an estimated market value of USD 245 billion, the sector is attracting growing interest. Tata Housing, one...

Housing the world: leveraging private-sector resources for the public good

By 2030, around 3 billion people in the developing world will need housing. That means 565 million new units, adding to the current gap of more than 400 million homes. Building these will provide much...

Developing renewable energies in Africa: a public-private partnership

Likewise mobile phone for telecommunication, is sub-Saharan Africa on the verge to leapfrog conventional energy and move straight to renewable energy (RE)1 to address requirements for capacity additio...

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...

Assessing the impacts of new IPPs at country level? Case study on Kenya

Independent power producer (IPP) investments are making a real contribution to increasing the provision of electricity in Kenya, and in reducing outages. This analysis demonstrates the development pot...

Driving growth by providing economically sustainable power

Globeleq focuses on independent power projects (IPPs) in the emerging markets of Africa and Central America. The company is dedicated to enabling growth; the good performance of its operations; delive...

Stimulating private investment in the forestry sector

Deforestation has devastating effects in developing countries. Managed sustainably, forestry projects provide solutions to economic, environmental and social problems by creating jobs, developing infr...

Preliminary feedback on FSC certification from an operator's point of view

In 2008, Rougier embarked on the process of securing FSC certification for its Gabon concessions and for its traceability chain (FSC-C017653). The decision was essentially a leap of faith: at that tim...

Forest management plans in the Congo basin

More than half the forests in the Congo Basin have been allocated as concessions, and most are covered by Forest Management Plans (FMPs). The introduction of these plans – supported by French cooperat...

Forest management by community forest enterprises

For conservation to be synonymous with development, local populations need to be involved in forest management. Traditional community-based forest management is, however, not without its drawbacks. Th...

Developping the forestry sector with carbon markets

Forests are vital carbon sinks. Although forestry projects dominate the voluntary carbon markets, they still occupy a marginal position on the larger, compliance markets. This is mainly due to their i...