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• CONNECTIVITY
• TRANSPORT
• Railway: China opens Xi’an-Shiyan high speed line
• Railway: Kyrgyzstan inaugurates construction of new USD500 million line
• Railway: Paraguay pursues rail link to Port of Montevideo in Argentina
• Railway: AfDB approves EUR205 million to extend high-speed rail line in Morocco
• Railway: AFC achieves financial close on USD753 million Lobito Corridor Railway Project
• Road: Chinese Shandong signs Kenyan USD680 million road project PPP agreement
• Road and railway: EIB announced EUR365 million new investment for resilient transport networks in Morocco
• Port: DP World plans new UAE port to bypass Strait of Hormuz
• World Bank report: Handbook for the Development of Air Transport
• ENERGY
• Storage: World Bank approves USD265 million financing for Ifahsa Pumped Hydropower Storage Project cofinanced with AfDB
• Thermal: AFC disbursed the first tranche of USD300 million financing in Burkina Faso power plant project
• ACE paper: One Grid, Common Rules: Technical Standards Alignment Harmonisation for Catalysing the Multilateral Power Trade Expansion under the ASEAN Power Grid (APG)
• ODI Global paper: Has the World Bank really ‘accelerated’ 50 million electricity connections in Africa?
• IRENA report: Renewable power generation costs in 2025
• DIGITAL
• Global leaders launch AI for Good Global Commission to expand access, strengthen trust, and accelerate impact
• ITU's Partner2Connect surpasses USD100 billion in commitments to connect the world
• Broadband and Digital Public Infrastructure: World Bank approved USD70 million IDA financing for Pakistan’s Connected Punjab Program
• Network: IFC supports expansion of digital connectivity in Africa with USD150 million loan to Airtel Africa
• Network and Broadband: EBRD finances African telecoms firm Yas with EUR270 million package to boost connectivity in Africa
• World Bank report: The Behavioral Dividend: Solving the ‘Last Mile’ Problem in Digital Government
• CAREC Institute report: Visiting Fellows Program Report: The Impact of Digital Technology on Digital Trade and Welfare: Evidence from the CAREC Region
• Green Street Infrastructure article: AI shifts APAC data center focus to infrastructure
• The Economist article: Africans are turning to Starlink - They are fed up with the continent’s terrible internet
• TRADE AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION
• Corridor: Kazakhstan Railways signs freight agreements worth USD460 million along the Middle Corridor
• Corridor and SEZ: IsDB and Kazakhstan advance cooperation across key development sectors, strengthen industrial growth and transport connectivity
• World Bank report: Special Economic Zones in South Africa 2026: Policy Review
• IMF paper: Strengthening GCC-CCA Economic Cooperation
• CROSS SECTORAL
• EU concludes Global Gateway investment mission to Brazil

• QUALITY
• ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE
• Sustainable Banking and Finance Network: SBFN Toolkit: Monitoring Sustainable Finance for the Banking Sector
• CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
• EBRD and EU extend green investment risk-sharing facility to Sub-Saharan Africa
• IIF paper: The Insurability Crunch: When Physical Risk Meets Financial Risk
• ECONOMIC RECOVERY
• IMF report: World Economic Outlook Update July 2026 - Global Economy in Crosscurrents of War and Technology
• ADB report: Asian Development Outlook (ADO) July 2026: A Fragile Outlook as Energy Market Disruptions Persist
• UNCTAD report: World Investment Report 2026
• DEBT SUSTAINABILITY
• IIF report: 2026 IIF Investor Relations and Debt Transparency Report: The Transparency Dividend
• PROJECT CYCLE AND INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
• GCF paper: Project Preparation Facility (PPF) landscape and partnership analysis

• PARTNERSHIP
• MCDF NEWS AND ACTIVITIES
• MCDF discusses connectivity partnership with IsDB member countries at its Baku Annual Meetings
• INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES, FUNDS, AND INITIATIVES
• American investment company KKR secures USD5.8 billion for APAC infrastructure fund
• Schneider Electric and Seraya Partners launch Asia energy platform
• IFIS TOGETHER
• IDB and World Bank approve Full Mutual Reliance Framework
• The Rogun Hydropower Plant Project entered into its second financing phase with World Bank and international development partners
• IFIS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRY FINANCIERS
• ADB and HDBank sign USD100 million loan to expand access to finance for MSMEs and women-owned businesses in Viet Nam
• EBRD provides USD50 million loan to KMF Bank in Kazakhstan
• EIB Global and BRAC Bank unlock EUR60 million to accelerate Bangladesh's green transition
• DEVELOPING COUNTRY FINANCIERS
• IDFC-E3G report: Empowering Public Development Banks to Deliver
• OTHER NEWS AND ANALYSES ON PARTNER IFIS
• IDB and Canada sign guarantee agreement to mobilize USD1 billion in investments across Latin America and the Caribbean
• EDB's 20th anniversary and its Annual Meeting outcomes
• EDB invites partners to contribute to the development of its E-Handbook – an electronic knowledge platform on IFIs

• UPCOMING EVENTS
• MCDF
• 2026 Workshop Series on Public-Private Partnership Hot Topics
• OTHERS
• Public Debt Management Conference 2026
• 8th World Bank / ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference
• Global AI and Digital Summit 2026
• Africa PPP Infrastructure Finance, Investment, and Partnerships Summit (Africa PPP) 2026: Building Africa’s Prosperity: Transformative Infrastructure, Investment, and Partnerships to Accelerate Economic Development
• World Bank Group Land Conference 2027