Impact infrastructure:
Local views on building community-resilient infrastructure
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The world’s massive infrastructure investment deficit is a fundamental issue for global development — and one that has become even more pressing during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Global Infrastructure Outlook, the world requires $94 trillion in infrastructure investments by 2040 to keep pace with dramatic economic and demographic changes.
These eye-popping numbers can make us think that for infrastructure projects to impact society, they must be large-scale, grandiose, and expensive. But far less attention is paid to community-level infrastructure — smaller-scale and more localized projects that provide marginalized communities with water, shelter, transport, power, and social services.
In this special report, Devex and bechtel.org set out to learn more about challenges and solutions related to “impact infrastructure.” We examine community-level infrastructure development across the project lifecycle through in-depth interviews with local development experts in five different regions, from conception and design to execution and maintenance.
What's inside
- What is impact infrastructure?
- What are the biggest challenges to building impact infrastructure in low and middle income countries?
- Why do we need to focus on local communities and how can we involve them from the start of infrastructure projects?
- What is impact infrastructure?
- What are the biggest challenges to building impact infrastructure in low and middle income countries?
- Why do we need to focus on local communities and how can we involve them from the start of infrastructure projects?
79% of interviewees believe that feasibility studies often lack a clear understanding of local context, community engagement, and evaluation of project sites.
Two-thirds of interviewees insist that using local contractors and building community capacity is critical for sustainable infrastructure projects.
69% of Devex interviewees believe that local communities and governments lack a basic understanding of disaster risk reduction and resilience principles.
Report: Impact infrastructure: Lessons and best practices from implementers
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How to build resilient communities
Article by Devex Editor
To learn more about the role of “impact infrastructure” for communities in low- and middle-income countries, Devex, in partnership with bechtel.org, asked development professionals. Here are four things we learned.
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Infrastructure for Development
Impact infrastructure: Building resilient and sustainable communities
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Devex and bechtel.org explore how to successfully develop infrastructure projects in regions that experience extreme weather events or natural disasters.
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This Devex special report is produced in partnership with bechtel.org
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