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Microfinance and non-financial services: an impossible marriage?
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) can - in addition to their classic products - develop non-financial services: vocational training, technical assistance, agricultural or health education. The comparat...
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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,...
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A New Generation of Public-Private Partnerships for Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
There is a gradually rising trend in developing countries towards more professionally managed urban drinking water services as a result of delegation to private companies. The integration of a new gen...
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Adana Hospital
The construction of the Adana hospital complex in Turkey involves a public-private partnership in which Proparco is a stakeholder. The six hospitals in the complex will significantly develop healthcar...
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How to Develop Access to Water for the Most Disadvantaged Populations?
Veolia designs and implements specific programs for access to water, sanitation and electricity services for all. Water tariff policies are core to the success of programs to develop access to essenti...
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The Interest of Multiplayer Dialogue for Public Service Operators
IGD has designed the concept of Quadrilogues – four-party dialogues – based on the observation that the success of public-private partnerships depends on the various stakeholders' capacity to dialogue...
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From PPPs to “4Ps”, Public-Private Partnerships Need Participative management
The various experiences of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in developing countries have underscored the importance of participative management and dialogue among stakeholders. They are indeed prere...
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Can Public-Private Partnerships Benefit Populations Excluded from Water Services?
Although public-private partnerships may have achieved relatively disappointing results in terms of extending access to water for poor populations, the arrival of private operators has nevertheless of...
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A network of central banks and regulators committed to climate action
The financial sector is increasingly mainstreaming climate-related risks into its analyses, in particular through the action of the NGFS, an international network of central banks and regulators. Deta...
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Collaborating to accelerate investment in climate adaptation and resilience
While there is an urgent need to step up action on climate adaptation, the action is not in step with the need. This is especially true of the required financing, particularly from the private sector....
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How cities can focus their climate adaptation and resilience actions
More than half of the world’s population lives in cities – and all are at risk from increasing climate change impacts ( floods, storms, extreme temperatures, among others) due to warming at alarming l...
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Helping financial institutions to scale up climate change adaptation for increased resilience
The financing of adaptation measures has not become widespread up to now due to a number of obstacles. These include – but are not limited to – insufficient harmonization of practices and terminology,...
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Investing in nature for water security: the power of collaboration
Around the world, the impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt and have become impossible to ignore. Stories of increased drought, more intense storms, and changing rainfall patterns are...
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Private sector action in analyzing climate risk data
Climate change is part of our daily lives. It must no longer be considered as a problem of the future but as a current challenge: it is essential to adapt our societies and systems. Private sector pla...
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Adenia IV
The Adenia IV fund mainly targets SMEs in the Indian Ocean and West Africa. It helps them go regional, diversify their products, and strengthen their organizational and managerial potential.
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How Seed Co Group is tackling climate change in Zimbabwe
Farmers in Southern Africa are grappling with the hazards of climate change and reduced rainfall. Seed Co Group – a company based in Zimbabwe – is attempting to provide them with solutions by developi...
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How important is adaptation finance for a just transition?
Climate adaptation entails responding to climate impacts that result in deteriorating living conditions. It requires private sector investment to scale alongside public investment, to supplement publi...
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What indicators for finance devoted to climate change adaptation?
Adaptation is by definition the response to a shock – in this case a climate shock. But if this issue is not identified and taken into account in the business practices and procedures of private playe...
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A model of resilience: Brazil’s leading private sanitation provider
Thanks to its business model – aligned with ESG principles – Aegea has become the leading private sanitation company in Brazil, servicing 154 cities in 2022 (up from 6 in 2010). Providing sanitary sew...
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Financing adaptation: the private sector’s role
The climate crisis has become increasingly evident in the last five years. Its alarming effects are also becoming more apparent. Thus, it has become clear that the actions taken to adapt to global cli...
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