Week 1: Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development (GRID) and Quality Infrastructure Investments
Students learn about GRID and the QII Principles and how they can help maintain a line of sight between the short-term goals of economic recovery and long-term goals of lower carbon emissions and more resilient, inclusive infrastructure.
Week 2: Green Infrastructure: Climate and Environmental Considerations
This week covers the environmental impacts of infrastructure projects (climate, ecosystem, biodiversity) and how they can be made more transparent to shareholders. It also reviews how climate and environmental considerations can be addressed in the infrastructure project lifecycle to achieve policy goals, such as climate adaptation and mitigation, including through nature-based solutions.
Week 3: More resilient and inclusive infrastructure
Students examine the concept of resilience and the types of “shocks” that can affect infrastructure assets and services. It focuses on introducing resilience to disasters, climate change, and other shocks in planning and implementing infrastructure projects. We also look at how to provide access to infrastructure services in a non-discriminatory manner, mainstreaming inclusiveness through the infrastructure project cycle and reducing disparities in opportunities and outcomes so that excluded groups realize a fair share of the benefits.
Week 4: Implementing a life-cycle cost approach
Topics covered include the life-cycle cost approach to infrastructure; why it is important for achieving GRID; how it can be operationalized; and how asset management in infrastructure planning, procurement, and delivery can be developed. It includes procurement strategies that promote the life-cycle cost approach, leveraging technologies, and implementation challenges.
Week 5: Strengthening Infrastructure Governance
This week examines important governance-related issues such as macro-fiscal considerations, debt sustainability, cybersecurity, transparency, and integrity. It also includes the role of capacity building in strengthening infrastructure governance, common governance challenges, and challenges in countries characterized by small economies, low incomes, fragility, conflict, and violence.
