• Understand the concept of green, resilient, and inclusive development (GRID)
• Explore the G20 Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Principles and discover how they can strengthen infrastructure investment programs to achieve GRID
• Discover the relationship between infrastructure investment, the environment, and climate change—and how to develop green infrastructure projects
• Uncover the benefits of resilience and inclusion in infrastructure investment programs, and learn how they can be introduced in planning and implementing infrastructure projects
• Develop your knowledge of the life-cycle cost approach to infrastructure investment, its challenges, and good practice in its implementation
• Deepen your understanding of infrastructure governance
• Be able to explain how applying the QII Principles to infrastructure investment can contribute to GRID in your own country’s circumstances.

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.