This book describes how the timely use of two-way communication in large water infrastructure projects leads to improved project design and is key to identify and address problems that could result in project delays and incremental costs.

The Role of Communication in Large Infrastructure: The Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (84) (World Bank Working Papers)

Business & Money

Mazzei, Leonardo

Scuppa, Gianmarco

Economics

World Bank Publications

This title outlines a number of practical initiatives to strengthen the role of development communication in infrastructure projects. The authors aim to facilitate better quality projects and to build consensus on the type of governance reforms needed to fight corruption, drawing on the experience of development agencies like the World Bank and Transparency International.It starts by characterizing corruption vulnerabilities in infrastructure and proceeds to illustrate where communication has added value on a number of recent projects, both in regard to making the projects more sustainable and by incorporating anti-corruption measures into the project preparation and implementation. It draws on examples of mainly World Bank-supported projects from the road, transport, power, and water sectors in different governance contexts. Five standard-setting initiatives are then outlined, which focus on promoting best practice to better integrate development communication into the project cycles of World Bank-supported infrastructure projects.

Setting Standards for Communication and Governance: The Example of Infrastructure Projects (121) (World Bank Working Papers)

Haas, Larry

O'Leary, Donal

This Handbook offers 'how to' ideas to help infrastructure practitioners identify good practice improvements in communication, starting with the World Bank’s own expanding portfolio of dam projects. In-depth case studies prepared for this Handbook show the considerable scope, value added, and many practical reasons to link governance, sustainability, and communication aspects at all stages of the project cycle. The Handbook reflects a philosophy of continuous improvement in development practices.  Improving communication in dam planning and management not only achieves consensus on imbedding anti-corruption measures in projects but also builds multi-stakeholder partnerships that are fundamental to advance the wider development effectiveness of large dams and creates synergy to combat poverty with sustainable infrastructure provision.

Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management: A Communication Practitioner's Handbook for Large Water Infrastructure

Haas, Lawrence J.M.

O'Leary, Donal T.

This paper considers the multi-faceted lessons of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project and how the project can serve as a model of mutually beneficial development, though demonstrating the benefits of a bilateral governmental cooperative approach in the development of an international river. These benefits include exceeding the impact of individual national approaches and strengthening political cooperation among all participants. This model is particularly relevant since approximately 40 percent of the world’s population lives in transboundary river basins and more than 90 percent of the world’s population lives within countries that share these basins.

Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Communications Practices for Governance and Sustainability Improvement (200) (World Bank Working Papers)

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The Role of Communication in Large Infrastructure: The Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (84) (World Bank Working Papers)

Setting Standards for Communication and Governance: The Example of Infrastructure Projects (121) (World Bank Working Papers)

Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management: A Communication Practitioner's Handbook for Large Water Infrastructure

Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Communications Practices for Governance and Sustainability Improvement (200) (World Bank Working Papers)