| This primer was developed by a team led by Edona Pacarada (Investment Officer) and Susmita Sahoo (Associate Investment Officer), with guidance from Edgar Saravia (Principal Investment Officer), all of whom are part of the International Finance Corporation's (IFC's) Public Private Partnership Advisory practice. Susanne Claudia Foerster and Christine Shepherd Vermeulen, consultants for the Infrastructure Finance, PPPs and Guarantees Group (IPG) at the World Bank, developed and wrote the core content of the primer. The primer benefitted from peer-review feedback and suggestions from several individuals within the World Bank Group, including: Jeffrey Delmon (Senior Infrastructure Finance Specialist), Adriana Eftimie (Senior Operations Officer), Chiaki Yamamoto (Senior Public Private Partnerships Specialist), Sara Ahmed (Operations Analyst) of the World Bank's IPG Group; Henriette Kolb (Head) and Heather Mae Kipnis (Operations Officer) of IFC's Gender Secretariat; Nato Kurshitashvili (Gender Specialist) in the World Bank's Transport Global Practice; Giovanna Monti (Environmental Specialist) at the IFC; Inka Ivette Schomer (Operations Officer) in the World Bank's Gender CCSA, Rosemary Rop (Gender Consultant) in the World Bank's Water Global Practice, Alkadevi Morarji Patel (Senior Social Development Specialist) in the World Bank's Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice; Morag Baird (Director, Leading Practices), Global Infrastructure Hub; and Shawn Hayes (Senior Gender Specialist), Government of Canada. Several ideas and inputs to the primer also surfaced during an internal process, whereby both the World Bank's IPG Group and the IFC's PPP Advisory (C3P) identified new approaches to deliver on the 2015-2023 World Bank Gender Strategy. During this internal process, the team received valuable inputs from Marianna Buchalla Pacca (Consultant), Chiaki Yamamoto, and Jane Jamieson (Senior Infrastructure Specialist). Further input from a breakout session during the IPG Group's annual department retreat in 2017, which crowdsourced new ideas and opened minds to the potential links between infrastructure PPPs and gender equality, was also incorporated. The primer also benefited from the resources developed and available on PPPLRC on legal issues relating to PPPs and gender found at https://ppp.worldbank.org/public-private-partnership/ppp-sector/gender-impacts-ppps/impacts-ppps-gender-inclusion This primer could not have been developed without funding support of the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and the encouragement of its Program Manager, François Bergère. Funding was also gratefully received from the Government of Canada. Cara Santos Pianesi helped support communications and outreach. Luba Vangelova and David Lawrence provided helpful editorial assistance, and Victoria Adams-Kotsch prepared the graphics and formatted the primer. Cover image © Cineberg/istockphoto. |