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2 February 2026

Kochi’s MetroConnect: Making the Last Mile Work for Public Transport

How a small fleet of electric buses is transforming urban mobility in one of India’s most congested cities

How do you get more people onto metros if they can’t reach the stations easily? That is the challenge Kochi, one of India’s most congested cities, set out to address. Despite massive investments in...

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30 January 2026

When Open Data Works

How to leverage electric vehicle ambitions with the NDC Transport Tracker

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21 January 2026

UN Honours the Marshall Islands’ Low Carbon Sea Transport Partnership

The LCST partnership has been awarded with the UN SIDS Partnership Award in the Environment category

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9 April 1920

Capacity Development Strategies

Capacity Development Plan for an Electric Bus Corridor in Mexico City The Capacity Development Plan by...
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7 April 1920

Impact Assessment Results from Various Countries and Methods

A compilation of case studies and impact assessment results for Ecuador, North America, Europe, Australia, Vietnam...
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6 April 1920

Standard Indicators

Many GIZ projects focus on sustainable urban mobility, public transport and freight logistics in countries around...
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6 April 1920

How to Ensure Target Group Specific Communication

No one-size-fits-all: The same information may be communicated in different ways via different channels to reach...
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6 April 1920

Stakeholder Mapping

The Stakeholder Map helps identify and visualise the relevant stakeholders and their relationships, thereby facilitating a...
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6 April 1920

MobiliseDays Standard Terms of Reference

MobiliseDays refers to an initiation measure for the preparation of potential technical assistance. MobiliseDays focus usually...
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6 April 1920

MobiliseYourCity Partnership Support During the NUMP Process

How the MobiliseYourCity Partnership can support you     The MobiliseYourCity Partnership maintains a vibrant community of...
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6 April 1920

EUROCLIMA+ Webinars: Gender

This tool includes a series of webinars held by Euroclima+ on several cross cutting topics in...
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31 March 1920

“e-mobilogues” Online Seminars on E-Buses

In this online seminar series by GIZ’s SMART-SUT project in India, industry experts share their experiences...
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22 March 1920

The IRU Academy

The international Road Transport Union (IRU) Academy offers training programmes which focus on developing the skills...
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21 March 1920

Sourcebook on Ecodriving

This Sourcebook by GIZ’s predecessor organisation GTZ explains concisely what is ecodriving, what its advantages are...
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18 March 1920

Setting Targets and Estimating Impacts

This tool offers both general guidance and ready-to-use templates to monitor and estimate impacts based on...
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16 March 1920

Zero-Emission Bus Seminars from Latin America

Many Latin American countries have deployed zero-emission buses in various cities. The successful transition of urban...
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12 March 1920

Truck Driver Professional Qualification Schemes and Paths to Reform

Promoting eco-driving can be done in the context of wider national reforms for the capacity development...
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7 March 1920

MRV Guidance

A vital step for successful implementation of a strategy, policy, programme or project is the assessment...
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7 March 1920

Best Practice Financing

Two reports on financing mechanisms from the Philippines and from Brazil show best practice examples. In...
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6 March 1920

Project Presentations

The TRANSfer project has developed exemplary project proposals from the Philippines and from Costa Rica. The...
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5 March 1920

Stakeholder Mapping

Who should to be involved and how when establishing and running comprehensive ecodriving programs? Stakeholder maps...
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16 February 1920

Preventative Maintenance Checklist

Maintenance is a big factor for safety and for fuel efficiency. For example, it is important...
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10 February 1920

Skills and Labour Shortage in the Road Freight Transport Sector

Around the globe, logistics is an industry struggling to hire skilled workers. This World Bank study...
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7 February 1920

Overview Trainings

To further your skills and expand your horizon on the development and implementation of bus fleet...
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7 February 1920

Best Practice MRV

Analyzing air pollutant emissions on certain routes, evaluating the performance of new buses on demonstration corridors...
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7 February 1920

Financial and Economic Impact Analysis

Cost-benefit analyses are critical for deciding if a project should be implemented for societal benefit.  Here...
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7 February 1920

Ecodriving Strategy at City Level

Sidney as issued a two-year strategy on eco-driving, recognizing that working with the City’s drivers on...
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7 February 1920

Options for Operational Models

Business models for public bus transport can be of various kinds. In order to be particularly...
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6 February 1920

Setting Up a Steering Structure

The implementation of ecodriving projects benefits from having a clear steering structure. This tool comprises a...
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24 January 1920

Video Case Studies

Can Ecodriving change lives? Not only does an environmentally friendly driving style emit less pollutions, due...
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20 January 1920

Annotated Table of Contents for Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)

The document provides information on how a SUMP (or other related strategic mobility planning document) is...
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16 January 1920

Managing Speed Infographic

Ecodriving techniques encourage consistent and lower speed driving. This infographic by the European Transport Safety Council...
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7 January 1920

Study Tour Guides

Study Tours are multi-day field trips that aim to provide learning experiences for political decision-makers from...
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7 January 1920

Environmental Impact Assessment Tool

The Costs and Emissions Appraisal Tool for Transit Buses by the World Resources Institute (WRI) is...
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7 January 1920

Terms of Reference for Financial Analysis Bus Technologies

This chapter includes several model Terms of Reference (ToR) specifically designed for Projects on Bus Fleet...
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7 January 1920

Future Perspectives for Truck Driver Training

What happens to the job description and the qualification requirements of truck drivers in times of...
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7 January 1920

Process Steps of Bus Fleet Renewal Projects

Project managers of bus fleet modernization programs need a structured plan that breaks down the program...
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6 January 1920

Case Studies on National Ecodriving Programmes

Governments in various countries have launched and implemented nation-wide programs to mainstream ecodriving among private and...
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6 January 1920

Energy and Environmental Aspects of Road Freight

Ecodriving is one of many ways to reduce the road freight CO2 Footprint. This report by...
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6 January 1920

Case Studies for Financial Support of Ecodriving

Three examples of subsidy structures for eco-driving initiatives in the UK, USA and Germany. Commercial Motor...
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1 January 1920

Regulations and Standards for Clean Buses

This report by the International Transport Forum reviews progress on technical standards for heavy vehicles that...
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30 November 1919

Global Landscape of Climate Finance

This report provides a comprehensive overview of global climate-related primary investment and tracks how much public...
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30 September 1919

Progress Report of the MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport

This progress report informs about the progress and achievements of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in...
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31 August 1919

The potential of Land value capture (LVC) to finance public transport

The rapid growth of cities in developing countries and associated positive trends in economy and real...
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30 December 1916

Transport Readiness for and Access to Climate Finance

This webinar provides a good introduction and overview on climate finance within the transport sector. It...
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30 April 1916

Handbook on Urban Infrastructure Finance

This comprehensive handbook explores financing instruments and innovative, sustainable revenue sources for cities to overcome infrastructure...
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30 December 1915

Financing Urban Transportation Policies and Programs

This webinar explores low-carbon urban mobility plans and focuses on planning and financing. Issues around the...
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29 September 1915

Green Climate Fund

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the largest climate fund and supports developing countries in their...
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30 June 1915

Alternative Financing Sources for Sustainable Transport

Public-Private-Partnerships and Institutional Investors This paper was prepared for the Hong Kong Roundtable on Enhancing Private...
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30 November 1914

Mobilising Private Sector Financing for Sustainable Transport

This background paper was prepared for the Eighth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) Forum in Asia,...
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31 January 1914

Transport Readiness for Climate Finance

A framework to access climate finance in the transport sector This paper informs about the necessary...
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9 April 1913

Financing Needs for Sustainable Transport Systems for the 21st Century

This background paper was presented at the 7th Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Form in Asia, taking...
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9 December 1911

World Bank Tranportation PPP Toolkits

The World Bank developed and collected a range of transportation toolkits on the establishment of public-private...
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29 September 1908

Clean Technology Fund

The Clean Technology Fund is one of the two multi-donor trust funds under the Climate Investment...
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If you believe that you suffer (potential) negative social and/or environmental consequences from IKI projects, or wish to report the improper use of funds, to voice complaints and seek redress, you can do so using the IKI Independent Complaint Mechanism.