MDB Platform on Gender and

Infrastructure

Dominique LallementGender & Infrastructure Consultant Adviser,

PRM Gender Group

Talking Points

Lessons from Tokyo International Conference of Africa Development (TICAD) and Multi-lateral Development Bank (MDB) Manila Gender and Infrastructure Workshops

THE Crises: Opportunities for Infrastructure

Opportunities for Gender and Infrastructure: Where do we go from here?

Lessons from TICAD and Manila Workshops Workshops: Tokyo (TICAD) – June 2008 Manila – November 2008 Gender & Infrastructure: subject not well

understood except in water Once, understood: lots of interest & commitment-- sharing of benefits-- mobilizing women’s talents-- project sustainability-- empowerment, equity-- development effectiveness

The crises: opportunities for Infrastructure

Energy + Food + Financial + Economic Crises

Risks for infrastructure: maintenance, no new investments

Rescue packages: all point to generate employment and incomes through infrastructure spending.

Decline in infrastructure spending on maintenance has costly consequences

Main

tenance Vs Repl

acement

Costs o

f Roads in

Developing

Countri

es

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

in $

bill

ion

Lo

ss

of

roa

d

as

se

t v

alu

e

(19

70

-8

9)

Co

st o

f m

ain

ten

an

ce

to

a

vo

id

los

s in

a

ss

et

va

lue

(1

97

0-

89

)

Source: World Bank

51.4

12.0Germany

100.4

1.0Italy

4.8

2.0India

1.3

11.2

1.4Spain

210

8.0

35.5

EU

464

2.2 9.5

Japan

11.8

26.3

SouthKorea

685.1

0.914.0USA

143.7

239.9

197.6

China

1.1

26.5

2.1

UK

11.6

18.7

2.6France

100%

75%

50%

25%

0%

Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure

Other Measures

RESCUE PACKAGES… Infrastructure

WBG INFRA PlatformPlatform across WBG institutions

FINANCINGINFRA RESPONSE

IFC World

Bank MI

GAPRE-CRISISCURRENT

$2.7 to

3.7 billion/year

up

to $1

5 b

illion

/year

curren

tly b

eing

reasse

ssed

base

d

on

reg

ion

al sca

ns

and

co

un

try p

riorities

$2.1 billio

n

Up

to $0

.3 b

illion

in

Glo

bal

Eq

uity

Fu

nd

u

nd

er the

Infrastru

ctu

re Crisis

Facility (1

)

to b

e ad

justed

d

ow

nw

ard

s reflectin

g

low

er th

an

anticip

ated

FD

I flo

w in

to

INF

$0.7 to $1 billion/year

$11

to $13

billion/year

INSTRUMENTS

(1) Scale up constrained by balance sheet

IFC

Infrastructure C

risis Facility

(over 3 to 5 years)

Sup

port (IDA

/IFC

) pipe

lines

Sub

-national instrum

ents

Sca

led u

p R

espo

nse (o

ver 3 yea

rs):D

irect Fin

ance su

pp

ort

(IDA

/IFC

) pip

eline

s

Parallel fin

anc

e expan

sion

w

ith b

ilaterals/o

the

r IFIs

Co

ncessio

nal w

ind

ow

for

pro

ject prep

aration

pro

ject finan

cing

Sup

port (IDA

/IFC

) pipelines

Early 200

9 Board discussio

n. P

roposed reform

s include:

• N

ew P

roduct – covering

non-honorin

g of sovereign

financial obligations

•E

xpanded co

verage – m

ore

acquisition/restructuring

projects will be elig

ible•

Enh

ance Breach of C

ontract coverage for S

OE

s on selective

basis

Opportunities for Gender and Infrastructure: where do we go from here?

Take advantage of huge spending on infrastructure Don’t lose any opportunity to raise the gender issues Think both women and men Choose technological options which will create themost

jobs for both women and men, and those which will generate maximum benefits

Don’t stop at needs assessment or design stage: IMPLEMENT.

PARTNER with units/organizations which have gender competencies