The Global Infrastructure Hub (GIH) has launched a consultation on its newly published guidance on national infrastructure banks and other similar financing facilities. 

The Guidance Note has been developed by the GIH in collaboration with Cambridge Economic Policy Associates Limited (CEPA).

The Guidance Note is designed to assist governments interested in establishing or reforming a National Infrastructure Bank or a similar financing facility (NIB). The objective of the guide is to identify lessons learned from the examination of a wide variety of existing NIBs in both emerging markets and high-income countries, including institutions with an extensive history and those that have been established more recently.

With an overall aim of maximising the impact that infrastructure banks can have in delivering quality infrastructure projects, including through mobilising private capital, supporting project preparation and providing value for money for end users, the analysis has sought to identify some of the unique niches and roles that such institutions can occupy and play in support of government objectives and policies in these areas.

The consultation dates are set on March 29 to April 25, 2019.