Enabling Better Infrastructure report
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The world is changing. Rapid urbanisation, demographic shifts and climate change are impacting societies.
About the Enabling Better Infrastructure programme
Many countries face the same challenges across the infrastructure lifecycle: the need to unlock better procurement processes, value, social and economic outcomes, and to address shared global challenges in a sustainable way.
Enabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) is a multi-stage programme that supports national policymakers.
It designs guidance and provides shared insight to support the long-term prioritisation and planning of infrastructure to meet sustainable development targets.
Twelve guiding principles for prioritising and planning infrastructure
The Enabling Better Infrastructure programme has identified twelve guiding principles for prioritising and planning infrastructure.
These are available to download in a range of languages:
Who is the programme aimed at?
All country-level policymakers involved in the planning and prioritisation of national infrastructure. These stakeholders play a significant role in decision-making processes.
What makes EBI different?
EBI supports policymakers in strengthening their national pipeline of infrastructure projects, acknowledging diversity in infrastructure and processes.
It also focuses on thought leadership and the development of collaborative networks to help address challenges in a changing world.
12 guiding principles for prioritising and planning infrastructure
The Enabling Better Infrastructure programme has identified 12 guiding principles for prioritising and planning infrastructure.
Principles were developed using policymaker insights to meet sustainable development targets recognising different national needs.
This enables assessing what level of infrastructure need is required to achieve that vision, which lays the foundation for developing a national infrastructure strategy.
Why is developing a national strategy so important?
Planning and prioritising infrastructure efficiently requires establishing a strategic vision of what outcomes a nation's infrastructure networks should deliver.
Why showcase diversity of experience?
Every policymaker and country has something to share. Showcasing diversity highlights the different ways we can prioritise and plan infrastructure and this helps to strengthen our global approach to building stable, sustainable, and investable infrastructures throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.
Click on the 12 principles below to learn more
P1
Identify strategic objectives
P2
Consider Sustainable Development Goals as a supporting framework
P3
Establish a national strategy
P4
Incorporate national characteristics
P5
Conduct a needs-assessment
P6
Identify risks to implementation
P7
Assess costs and benefits
P8
Provide guidance on what is affordable
P9
Ruthlessly prioritise infrastructure programmes
P10
Develop private sector guidance
P11
Consult with a broad stakeholder group
P12
Enhance data quality for decision-making
Supporting insight sharing
Toward helping countries to strengthen their planning and prioritisation, we have identified the need to support sharing.
We are currently setting up a collaborative network of government officials and political advisors directly responsible for strategic infrastructure decision-making to help us draw insights from across countries toward strengthening national infrastructure planning and prioritisation.
Why focus on insight sharing?
As many countries are facing similar challenges across the infrastructure lifecycle, insight sharing can streamline the troubleshooting process and assist with addressing similar concerns more rapidly.
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Our policy team works to help inform strategic decision-making on national infrastructure.
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