This briefing note provides a rapid scan of partnership initiatives by the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) to improve the state of water and sanitation services in Africa. The note aims to highlight the gains and challenges of the major...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can sometimes be perceived as a means for delivering infrastructure for free. A more nuanced but still inexact view is that they are a mechanism to overcome fiscal constraints. Some argue, perhaps rightly, that often governments enter PPP contracts without...

section 1. Sustainable development through greening -- section 2. Sustainable development through industrial ecology -- section 3. Tools to aid environmental decisions -- section 4. Public policy & reforms for better environmental decisions -- section 5. Corporate social responsibility --...