A number of partnerships have been formed between the World Bank and external development agencies to support specific infrastructure initiatives. The objectives of these partnerships—known as Global Programs and Partnerships (GPPs)—are to invest in the creation and sharing of infrastructure knowledge, to align infrastructure policies and practices across the World Bank and donors, and to mobilize funding in direct support of clients. With combined commitments of over $72 million in FY05, the GPPs play an important role in the World Bank’s work on global knowledge and bestpractice sharing. |  | | Infrastructure Multi-Donor Global Programs |  | | Cities Alliance
Inception date: 1999
Sector/ theme: Urban
Purpose: A global coalition of cities and their development partners committed to scaling up successful approaches to poverty reduction.
Founders:World Bank and UN-Habitat
Members who have joined since inception: ADB, Brazil, Canada, European Commission, France, Germany, IACD/OAS, ILO, Italy, Japan, Metropolis, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UCLG, UK, UNDP, UNEP, USA Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP)
Inception date: 1983
Sector/ theme: Energy
Purpose: Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme Promotes the role of energy in poverty reduction and economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.
Founders: World Bank, UNDP, European bilateral donors (9), Canada
Members who have joined since inception: France, Italy, Japan, Poland, UK, USA (+ 22 partners) Information for Development (InfoDev)
Inception date: 1995
Sector/ theme: ICT
Purpose: Information for Development: InfoDev is a program supporting, innovative activities demonstrating the opportunities offered by new technologies in information and communications.
Founders: World Bank, European bilateral donors (12), EU, IBM, Motorola, Telecom. Italia
Members who have joined since inception: Australia, Canada, CISCO, Colombia, El Salvador, Ireland, USA Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
Inception date: 1999
Sector/ theme: Private Infrastructure
Purpose: Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility: Helping to eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable development through private involvement in infrastructure.
Founders: World Bank, European bilateral donors (1), Japan
Members who have joined since inception: France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Netherlands, UNDP, ADB Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Inception date: 1978
Sector/ theme: Water
Purpose: Water and Sanitation Program: To help poor people gain sustained access to safe water and sanitation
Founders: World Bank, UNDP
Members who have joined since inception: ADB, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, UNDP, ODA | | | | | Infrastructure Trust-Funded Partnerships | | | Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Water Supply & Sanitation Windows (BNWP-WSS)
Inception date: 2002
Sector/ theme: Water and Sanitation
Purpose: The bank-Netherlands Water Partnership (BNWP) is a new program to improve delivery of water supply and sanitation services to the poor. BNWP enhances performance of World Bank operations in the water supply and sanitation sector and supports a broad sector reform agenda with a strong poverty focus. Â
Founders: World Bank, Netherlands Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program Water Resources Management (BNWPP-WRM)
Inception date: 2002
Sector/ theme: Water and Sanitation
Purpose: The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program (BNWPP) mission is to improve water security by promoting innovative approaches to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), and thereby contribute to poverty reduction.Â
Founders: World Bank, Netherlands Communities and Small-Scale Mining (CASM)
Inception date: 2003
Sector/ theme: Mining Communities
Purpose: Communities and Small Scale Mining mission is to reduce poverty by supporting integrated sustainable development of communities affected by or involved in artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries.
Founders: World Bank, UK (DFID)
Members who have joined since inception: Multidonor facility Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR)
Inception date: 2003
Sector/ theme: Oil and Gas
Purpose: Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership's objective is to support national governments and the petroleum industry in their efforts to reduce the flaring and venting of gas by improving the framework for private sector investments
Founders: World Bank, Norway, Ecuador, Nigeria, Shell, BP, Sonatrach
Members who have joined since inception: USA, Angola, Cameroon, Private sector: ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, Norsk Hydro, Statoil, and Total Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA)
Inception date: 2003
Sector/ theme: Infrastructure
Purpose: Global Partnership for Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) will assist in the funding, design, documentation, and demonstration of pilot OBA schemes both inside and outside the World Bank Group.
Founders: World Bank, UK (DFID)
Members who have joined since inception: Multidonor TF Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) (ESMAP)
Inception date: 2003
Sector/ theme: Rural Energy
Purpose: Global Village Energy Partnership is a partnership that brings together developing and industrialized countries, and others in an effort to ensure access to modern energy services by the poor
Founders: World Bank ESMAP, USAID, NREL, Winrock, private firms, UNDP, bilaterals
Members who have joined since inception: Over 200 organizations are partners Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GFP)
Inception date: 2003
Sector/ theme: Transport & Trade
Purpose: Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade aims at pulling together all interested parties, public and private, national and international, who want to help achieve significant improvements in transport and trade facilitation in WB member countries
Founders: World Bank
Members who have joined since inception: Over 150 public and private firms, national and international organizations Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector and Infrastructure (NTF-PSI)
Inception date: 2002
Sector/ theme: Private Sector and Infrastructure
Purpose: Private Sector and Infrastructure
Purpose: Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector Development and Infrastructure provides grant resources for activities in the private sector and in infrastructure for the World Bank Group, including IFC. The NTF-PSI fund concentrates on the poorest countries, and half the funds are earmarked for Africa
Founders: World Bank, Norway, IFC, World Bank The ProVention Consortium
Inception date: 2000
Sector/ theme: Hazard Management
Purpose: Preventions Consortium is a global coalition of governments, international organizations, academic institutions, private sector, and civil society aimed at reducing disaster impacts in developing countries.
Founders: World Bank, UK,UNDP, IFRC
Members who have joined since inception: Norway, Japan, Switzerland, US, Mexico, Turkey, UNDP, IADB, AfDB, AsDB, WHO, UNEP, DFID, OAS, FEMA, ISDR, PAHO, NRC, WMO, WFP, WCU, ADPC, DRM, IIASA, EdM, NIED, SRI, ADPC, OCHA, ISDR | | | | | Other World Bank Group partners and programs in infrastructure | | | | | | |
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