The power sector is both highly vulnerable to natural hazards and a priority for any country'srecovery and reconstruction. After Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, most of the power gridwas down. One year and tens of billions of dollars later some customers were yet to be reconnected to the main grid. This type of long and widespread power outage has major consequences on people's health and well-being, for instance through lacking access to refrigeration for food and medicine, and on the ability of firms to produce and provide people with goods, services, jobs, and income. In most countries, the...
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In the last few years, IFC has prioritized an approach to creating bankable private sector infrastructure opportunities that is called Scaling focusing not on single asset development, but on a holistic approach that creates a pipeline of infrastructure projects. The essence of the Scaling approach is to develop a robust public-private partnership (PPP) model for a single deal and then replicate it. This spreads costs, enhances impact, and encourages programmatic, competitive tendering, with faster delivery and lower prices genuinely creating new markets. In some countries, this approach involved working with governments to design a process. In others, IFC has worked...
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This report was written in a collaboration between the Government of St. Lucia, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the University of Oxford-led Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC). The report examines the possible vision for the island’s future infrastructure aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. this report equips Saint Lucia with a robust approach to infrastructure planning that can ensure that social, economic, and environmental needs are met in a range of future scenarios. Through extensive data collection and cross-sectoral analysis, this report estimates Saint Lucia’s future infrastructure needs for...
A RUN Webinar presented by Dr Legena Henry, a lecturer for Renewable Energy at the University of the West Indies entitled 'A Source of Transportation Fuel for Barbados'.
A presentation by Patrick Ketwaru discussing Guyana's Energy Conundrum- Opportunities and Challenges. The session highlighted the need of energy for development, how SDG number 7 is involved and the affordability, reliability, sustainability and modernisation of energy services.
Online 1-month self-paced course on the vulnerability of users and obtain an understanding of some of the main challenges and effective interventions for safe urban mobility. The course can be accessed via IDBx: Road safety in the Caribbean region: safe urban mobility The course is offered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through the edX platform.
Presentation made by Dr. Devon Gardner, CARICOM Energy, at the REVS Webinar on 2020-06-16.
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