The Gender and Infrastructure Toolkit is a comprehensive, modular, and interactive resource to empower companies in addressing gender disparities in their workforces, supply chains, and community engagement activities within infrastructure and natural resource sectors. At a time when diversity and inclusion are more important than ever, this toolkit includes business cases for mining, water, energy, transport, & cities; 64 practical tools on gender-inclusivity in workforce, supply-chain, community engagement; Guidance on addressing gender-based violence and harassment across all themes and sectors, and Report builder to customize and build your own toolkit.

This methodology, developed by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), aims to support countries in assessing the current state of infrastructure resilience, so that areas of improvement are identified, and actions taken. It follows five steps: mapping institutional governance and identifying key stakeholders, review existing policies and regulations, identify infrastructure vulnerabilities through stress-testing, assess current practices through the Principles for Resilient Infrastructure, and development of a plan and final report.

PIERS is a platform that scores infrastructure projects against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for the SDGs criteria. It ensures projects create “value for people” and “value for the planet,” with a focus on the world’s most vulnerable. Integrating considerations of resilience, sustainability and circularity, PIERS brings together five PPP for the SDGs outcomes: access and equity; economic effectiveness; environmental sustainability and resilience; replicability; and stakeholder engagement.

The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), a G20 initiative, and its consultant, Atkins Acuity, have created this Reference Tool on Inclusive Infrastructure. It defines inclusivity in large scale infrastructure projects. It also provides guidance and shares leading practices to maximise the impact of projects on reducing inequality and promoting shared prosperity.

The PIEVC program comprises of a family of resources for climate risk and vulnerability assessments of infrastructure specifically designed for the needs of infrastructure practitioners that
– can be used for anything, from 1 single component of an infrastructure to an entire asset portfolio.
– can be used at any stage of the infrastructure lifecycle.
– use a threshold-based, component-by-component & participatory approach
– are ISO31000 and 14090 compliant
– Available resources (i.a.): PIEVC Protocol, PIEVC Large Portfolio Screening Manual, PIEVC Green as well as trainings on the tool

The Climate Toolkits for Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), developed by the World Bank Group, is a comprehensive guide designed to integrate climate considerations into the entire lifecycle of PPP infrastructure projects. The toolkits emphasize the dual goals of climate resilience and private sector engagement. The toolkits Umbrella, Water, Digital/ICT, Hydropower, Renewable and Road address critical questions such as optimizing risk allocation in the face of climate uncertainty, promoting gender inclusivity, and enhancing the long-term sustainability of investments. Comprising high-level toolkits and sector-specific modules, they facilitate informed decision-making at each phase of the PPP cycle.

The FAST-Infra Label is a globally applicable labelling system designed to identify and evaluate sustainable infrastructure projects, with the overarching objective of supporting infrastructure and creating a liquid asset class. It aims to enable all market players, including developers, operators, and investors to show the positive impact of an infrastructure asset, and attract investors seeking assets which positively contribute to sustainable outcomes. A key motivation behind the FAST-Infra Label is not to reinvent the wheel, but to build on existing standards, frameworks, and taxonomies to create a comprehensive framework and set of sustainability criteria that takes into account best practices and evolves with changes in the market. To account for this, the label is based on an extensive mapping against 25+ leading standards, frameworks, and principles in the market.

The Blue Dot Network aims to help mobilise private sector investment by identifying and encouraging market-driven, transparent, and sustainable infrastructure projects. It establishes a voluntary, private-sector focused, government-supported project-level certification that aligns with the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards, the Equator Principles, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the OECD Recommendation on the Governance of Infrastructure. The Blue Dot Certification Framework is currently being piloted on a number of infrastructure projects across different regions and sectors.

Build4Skills aims to improve the integration and therefore available opportunities for technical and vocational education and training in infrastructure project delivery. Build4Skills deploys TVET students to construction sites and trains in-company instructors on didactics, occupational safety and gender sensitivity. The Build4Skills Toolkit is based on the experiences of the cooperation of the project with the Asian Development Bank on infrastructure sites in Mongolia and Pakistan. It derives recommendations on how to implement similar projects elsewhere and  like this aims to support MDB’s and other actors to procure their infrastructure projects in a way that contributes to skill and economic development. To do so, it summarizes the Build4skills implementation practice, offers guidance on how Build4Skills can be applied in additional construction projects in the future, and provides an outlook on how this Toolkit and the project’s approach can be further developed. It highlights a delivery framework based on four components to plan and execute a Build4Skills project and two design principles that pervade all four stages.

The PIEVC (Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee) Protocol was first developed in 2005 by Engineers Canada (Canada’s Engineering Association). In 2012, the PIEVC got divested hat been taken over by a consortium (ICLR, CRI and GIZ). PIEVC is a 5 to 8 step climate risk assessment protocol for all types of physical infrastructure to be applyed either in early plannig stages or throughout operations and maintenance. Since 2005, it has been applyed more than 200 times, including applications outside Canada in Brazil, Costa Rica, Vietnam and the Nile Basin region.