The document outlines guiding principles and ten themes for financing sustainable infrastructure projects in cities, emphasizing environmental, social, and economic viability. It identifies key factors affecting project performance such as accountability, transparency, and resource protection while highlighting the risks associated with non-compliance. The text also notes the importance of sustainable infrastructure in addressing climate change and resource scarcity, and mentions conference topics for further discussion on sustainable practices.

1. Financing Infrastructure Projects in Cities
Avoiding Traps and Achieving Sustainability
Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (©)
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GIB, May 2014 | André Schneider

2. Guiding Principles for Sustainable
Infrastructure
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• Promote sustainable development to assure that
– ensure that all activities are environmentally sound, socially desirable, economically viable,
and in compliance with applicable law;
– ensure that multi-stakeholder processes for the resolution of conflicts are in place.
• Assure equitable participatory processes to implement that
– there is adequate stakeholder participation in the critical stages of the project;
– there are stable, reliable and equitable partnership based on mutual trust and respect;
– all consumers (men and women) will be actively informed about the sustainable infrastructure
and the ensuing services;
– all consumers (domestic, governmental, industrial) are treated equitably and have easy, non-
discriminatory access to independent consumer rights offices assuring equitable treatment of
complaints and prejudices due to non-compliance;
– workers’ rights are respected.
• Assure that the sustainable infrastructure and services that are safe and affordable
for all parts of the population.

3. The 10 Principles
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• Based on the guiding principles, we have derived the following ten
themes, which we can easily demonstrate that they clearly affect
the performance of sustainable infrastructure projects and their
governance:
– Accountability
– Transparency
– Customer Focus
– Results Orientation
– Poverty Responsiveness
– Power-Balanced Partnerships
– Shared Incentives
– Sound Financing Mechanisms
– Proactive Risk Management
– Resource Protection

4. What are we looking at
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5. What are we looking at
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6. Analysis of Project Characteristics by
Region
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7. Comparing with GIB Assessment
Ottawa Light Rail Transit
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42% of questions of the GIB assessment answered based on the business case on
the Ottawa Light Rail Transit HBS case

8. Comparing with GIB Assessment
TransMilenio, Bogota
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27% of questions of the GIB assessment answered based on the business case on
the TransMilenio HKS case

9. Comparing with GIB Assessment
Level of Answers
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10. Comparing with GIB Assessment
Result Spiders
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11. Comparing with GIB Assessment
Result: Ottawa Light Rail Project
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12. Comparing with GIB Assessment
Result: Ottawa Light Rail Project
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Themes Best Practise Low Performance
Accountability Clear organisational setup, Enforcement of regulations, Traceable
contract awards
Transparency Public access to information, Level of financial transparency, Level of
transparency of service delivery, Level of transparency in contract
preparation and negotiation, Communication of consultation with
stakeholders
Customer Focus
Results Orientation Effectiveness to achieve targets
Poverty Responsiveness Poverty impact assessment
Power-Balanced Partnerships Stakeholder interaction, Balance between contracting parties when
contracting out services
Shared Incentives Explicit future development
Sound Financial Mechanisms Knowledge of real cost structure, Cost recovery, Economic viability of
tariff structure, Controlled financial liability impact
Proactive Risk Management Risk culture, Investigation of risk landscape, Risk mitigation and
allocation
Resource Protection Quantitative monitoring of resources, Environmental considerations for
investment priorities, Demand-side resource conservation,
Environmental aspects in development of sustainable infrastructure

13. Comparing with GIB Assessment
Result: TransMilenio, Bogota
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14. Comparing with GIB Assessment
Result: TransMilenio, Bogota
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Themes Best Practise Low Performance
Accountability Clear organisational setup Existing rules for sustainable infrastructure,
Enforcement of regulations
Transparency Level of transparency in contract
preparation and negotiation
Public access to information, Effective
communication, Level of financial transparency
Customer Focus Procedures for continuous improvement
Results Orientation
Poverty Responsiveness
Power-Balanced Partnerships Stakeholder conflict management
Shared Incentives Incentives for result orientation
Sound Financial Mechanisms Revenue collection efficiency Cost Recovery
Proactive Risk Management Provisions for unanticipated risks
Resource Protection Demand-side resource conservation

15. Insights and Best Practises
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• Sustainable lifestyles can only be developed if the infrastructure makes choices available that
support these objectives.
• But confronting these challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation, resource scarcity
and energy security will require massive investment in the fundamental reconfiguration of the
infrastructure that supports modern society.
• This implies that every infrastructure that will be developed has to comply with sustainability
characteristics and this for all aspects of sustainability: social, environment, and economic.
• Our experience shows clearly that not achieving such compliance will result in important risks for
infrastructure projects, like costs for non-compliance, delays in project implementation or use of
infrastructure, difficulty to assure project financing, and finally discontinuation of the project.
• During the conference, we will deepen many of the mentioned topics, like:
– sustainable transportation, today at 14:00;
– increasing credit worthiness, today at 16:00;
– sustainable infrastructure as an asset class, tomorrow at 9:00;
– sustainability grading, tomorrow at 11:00;
– sustainable credit rating, tomorrow at 13:00.