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Further Development of SOURCE for City Projects
Revision of core questions in SOURCE Climate change and the unprecedented growth of cities, especially in emerging economies and developing countries, require increased investments in sustainable infrastructure projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet,...

Delivery Challenges embedded in SOURCE
SOURCE, the multilateral platform for quality infrastructure, now showcases the Delivery Challenges from the Global Delivery Initiative (GDI). Delivery challenges are the non-technical problems that hinder development interventions and that prevent practitioners from...

SOURCE Integration Process Conducted Online
The COVID-19 pandemic directly impacted SIF’s operations during the last 6 months, making it impossible to provide onsite workshops. The SIF management team’s swift response brought online its support to governments in integrating SOURCE. SOURCE presentations,...

SOURCE Highlighted For ‘Systemic’ Potential by the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
On July 18, 2020, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) have highlighted the key role the multilateral platform SOURCE can play for infrastructure project preparation and data collection. In the ensuing G20 Communiqué, the FMCBG noted the...

SOURCE taken further
To better answer the needs of project developers and enhance users' experience, SIF is delighted to announce the launch of the following new functionalities and the upgrade of the project preparation templates on SOURCE: 2 new project preparation templates are...

Reduce the impacts of COVID-19 and evaluate responses to this crisis
As an online project management system and global knowledge dissemination vehicle, SOURCE provides the following specific value propositions to reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and assess the responses to this crisis : Leveraging global lessons learned: One...

MoU with APMG on the PPP Certification Program
SIF is pleased to announce its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with APMG on the PPP Certification Program. The PPP Certification Guide as part of APMG’s PPP Certification Program, helps public officials and their advisors implement efficient and sustainable PPPs....

The SOURCE Architecture Board
The SOURCE Architecture Board has been established on September 2019 to provide strategic direction to the development of SOURCE platform on technology-related topics. Acting under the SOURCE Council*, the Architecture Board will support and advise SIF to further...

SIF and CDP announce collaboration to close infrastructure investment gap
SIF is pleased to announce the signature of a cooperation agreement with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) on October 15th in Washington to bridge climate resilient infrastructure projects from worldwide cities with the financial sector and improve their access to...

SIF a key player to support ICT for Development with IFIs
The African Development Bank’s Information Technology (IT) Department (CHIS), organised and hosted a meeting for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and high-level representatives from International Financial Institutions (IFIs) from September 23rd to 25th 2019 in Cape...

C40 Cities Finance Facility is now integrated in SOURCE PPF Finder
The C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF) is now integrated in SOURCE Project Preparation Facility Finder, simplifying the access to early preparation technical assistance to municipal project developers. The CFF facilitates access to finance for climate change mitigation...

SIF signed a MoU with GRESB to facilitate better investor decision making around ESG performance
The Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation (SIF) and GRESB signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster their collaboration in order to facilitate better investor decision making around ESG performance of projects and assets. GRESB assesses and benchmarks the...