In our third year of operation, I2S’ award-winning efforts continued to grow our domestic partner network while expanding our international influence through research collaborations and advice to multilateral development banks, including the AIIB, World Bank and ADB. Our research and knowledge translation efforts informed infrastructure policy and practice throughout the year in several important areas:
- Contracting and tendering: Evidence-based advice to better integrate community concerns and social risk management into major project design
- Setting standards: Application of I2S’ Infrastructure Engagement Excellence (IEE) Standards Post-Project Self-Assessment Tool to over $10 billion in domestic projects
- Social risk management: Establishment of I2S’ Social Risk Maturity Model and Social Risk Scanner, along with identification of the most common social risk factors for major projects
- Social licence to operate: Capacity building for the renewables sector and continued work with our transport and water partners to model how they earn and maintain a social licence
- Socio-economic inclusion: Research-derived advice to major investors, including MDBs and UBS Investment Bank, on how major infrastructure can improve the ability of all members of a society to participate more safely and equally.
Get your copy of I2S’ 2023 Annual Report here, for more details.