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Nigeria: Getting public-private partnership right
On September 22, the Nigeria Government’s Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) blazed an important trail by publishing details of 51 Federal Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts—the culmination of a year’s work with the World Bank to ensure that all non-confidential information from PPP contracts is easily accessible to the public. Read the op-ed by Laurence Carter, Senior Director of World Bank’s Infrastructure, PPP and Guarantees Group and a blog by the ICRC’s CEO.
Op-ed | Blog
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2016 Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Annual Update
The PPI Database is comprised of information on more than 8,700 infrastructure projects with private participation, dating from 1984 to 2016. This report presents the latest data from 2016, and analyzes trends in investment primarily over the past six years, breaking down the data by region, country, infrastructure sector, and sources of financing. This year’s report points out that investment commitments in infrastructure with private participation in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies fell sharply in 2016. The $71.5 billion committed across 242 projects in 2016 represents a 37% decline compared to 2015 and a 41% decline to the annual average of $121.4 billion over 2011 to 2015.
Download the report here.
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New Report - Toll road PPPs: Identifying, Mitigating and Managing Traffic Risk
The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) have developed a major new guidance document on the issue of traffic risks, which will help to provide technical officials in developing country governments, their advisors, and other interested stakeholders, with an understanding of the potential traffic risk in highway PPP projects. It sets out the sources of traffic risk, how it affects the viability of projects, and actions that governments can take to maximize project success.
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Egypt's First PPP Offers Relief to a Fast-growing Population
With only a third of Egypt’s population connected to a sewer system—and rapid urbanization straining already overburdened infrastructure—Egypt’s fast-growing cities have been searching for solutions. This is true even for the country’s newest areas, built specifically to alleviate overcrowding. That was the case in New Cairo, a satellite town constructed near the capital in 2000. The Government of Egypt hired IFC in 2007 to structure a PPP to finance, design, construct, operate, and maintain its wastewater treatment plant. Now, the New Cairo Wastewater Treatment Plant—the first PPP in the country—serves more than 1 million residents.
Learn more.
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World Bank Guarantees Help Pakistan Get Cheaper, Longer-term Loans from International Market
A key challenge for developing countries is to channel large savings and capital into productive investments, partly by ‘de-risking’ investments and borrowings. Pakistan is at the forefront of these efforts, recently making use of two World Bank guarantees to access over $1 billion in two international commercial loan financings.
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Online Resources
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PPP Contract Clauses Unveiled: The World Bank’s 2017 Guidance on PPP Contractual Provisions
What are the key considerations for a public authority when drafting a Force Majeure provision in a PPP contract? What are the differences between emerging and developed PPP markets in treating Change in Law clauses? These are only some of the questions the recently published Guidance on PPP Contractual Provisions, 2017 edition aims to address for the benefit of public authorities (contracting authorities) involved in PPPs.
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Policy Guidelines for Managing Unsolicited Proposals in Infrastructure Projects
These Policy Guidelines provide recommendations on how to address the challenges related to Unsolicited Proposals (USPs) and considerations for developing a USP policy.
This initiative includes three documents: Main Findings and Recommendations, that is considered as a summary; Policy Guidelines for Managing Unsolicited Proposals in Infrastructure Projects, which provides key policy decisions and considerations for the USP policy; and Review of Experiences with USPs, an in-depth review of global best practices with USP policies and projects, the findings of which informed the development of considerations and recommendations in the Guidelines.
Download the guidelines.
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PPP Knowledge Lab Update:
Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs
A new report from our partner, the Asia Development Bank, examines developing Asia’s infrastructure: how much the region has been investing in infrastructure and what will likely be needed through 2030. It also analyzes the challenges shaping future infrastructure investment and development.
Read the report here.
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Blogs
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Boosting access to market-based debt financing for sub-national entities
By Kirti Devi, Luciana Guimaraes Drummond E Silva (9.19.17)
Many countries are experiencing urbanization within the context of increased decentralization and fiscal adjustment. This puts sub-national entities (local governments, utilities and state-owned enterprises) in the position of being increasingly responsible for developing and financing infrastructure and providing services to meet the needs of growing populations.
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Pref.Olinda
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Filling the local PPP capacity gap in Brazil: how the CP3P program can help
By Marcos Siqueira (9.14.17)
Having delivered all these trainings myself, I have personally seen the excitement of local government agents learning the international best practices. I have also seen how useful the CP3P content is to the participants that struggle to prepare projects. The tools, concepts and methodologies introduced are actively debated in the classroom and it is astonishing how quickly the participants turn the content into practical lessons as the course evolves.
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Lufa farms
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How to foster a more inclusive environment for SMEs in PPPs?
By Jenny Chao, Angelica M. Toro (9.7.17)
SMEs participating in PPPs can build local capacity and expertise, decrease costs, facilitate logistics, encourage increased competition, and create broader opportunities for economic development. This is the focus of a new section on the PPP in Infrastructure Resource Center (PPPIRC) that links the policies, laws, and contractual clauses that can foster a more inclusive approach to SMEs in PPPs.
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A portrait of PPPs in Latin America
By Gastón Astesiano (9.5.17)
As in many regions, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are underinvesting in infrastructure with spending just half what is needed annually to encourage growth and reduce poverty. Addressing this issue involves stimulating public-private dialogue—a priority for the Inter-American Development Bank Group, a technical partner of the Global Infrastructure Facility.
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Texas Military Department
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Future-Proofing Resilient PPPs
By David Baxter (8.31.17)
Future-proofing is the process of anticipating the future and developing methods to mitigate its impacts. When considered in infrastructure PPPs, it leans towards resilience planning strategies that accommodate future events and changes that ensure infrastructure facilities do not become prematurely obsolete. It can also be tied to building infrastructure that will be resilient to future adverse weather events.
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Adam Jones
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Investing in a brighter future: PPP street lighting projects
By Susanne Foerster, Luciana Guimaraes Drummond E Silva (8.29.17)
Switching to modern street lighting schemes based on LED technology presents an opportunity for city governments to lower energy consumption, and operation and maintenance costs while reducing the overall carbon footprint. Attracting private capital via PPPs can help municipalities raise the funds needed to implement clever street lighting systems that secure efficiency and high technical standards in the long run.
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By Shyamala Shukla (8.24.17)
The “10 Candid Career Questions” series introduces you to the infrastructure and PPP professionals who do the deals, analyze the data, and strategize on the next big thing. In this installment, we learn more about Senior PPP Specialist Shyamala Shukla.
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Bankability: More than de-risking projects
By Cosette Canilao (8.22.17)
PPP investors typically look for projects that are bankable, where risks are fairly allocated between the government and the sponsor. Bankability for a developing country involves more than de-risking projects. More importantly, it entails de-risking the country and its PPP program.
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Getting infrastructure right: the OECD framework for better governance
By Ian Hawkesworth, Camila Vammalle and Juliane Jansen (8.17.17)
For both the members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as well as other countries, infrastructure exposes shortcomings in country systems that may undermine our ability to identify, develop and procure good projects that are sustainable, affordable and legitimate. Our new publication identifies the principal success factors for insuring good infrastructure governance.
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Forecasting infrastructure investment needs for 50 countries, 7 sectors through 2040
By Chris Heathcote (8.10.17)
The Global Infrastructure Outlook is a landmark country-based online tool and report developed by the Global Infrastructure Hub with Oxford Economics, which forecasts infrastructure investment needs across 50 countries and seven sectors to 2040 based on fresh, country-level data. For the first time, the Outlook has data about what each country needs to spend in each sector, and importantly – the gap between what needs to be spent and current spending trends.
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Xing Yihang
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Kenya’s new railway and the emergence of the “government-to-government procurement” method
By Cynthia Olotch (7.27.17)
Kenya recently launched its high-capacity, high-speed standard gauge railway (SGR) for passenger and freight transportation, which currently runs from the coastal city of Mombasa to the capital city, Nairobi. It is Kenya’s largest infrastructure project since the country gained independence from the British colonialists in 1963, and marked the introduction of what is now commonly referred to as “government-to-government procurement.”
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The 24 Schools PPP in Greece: a lesson in perseverance and innovative funding
By Nikos Mantzoufas (7.11.17)
In 2014, the 24 Schools PPP project in the wider Athens area marked the reopening of the Greek PPP market and was only the second PPP project to reach financial close in Greece. It aimed to address the existing quantity and quality need for schools, covering 6,500 students in 10 municipalities in the historical region of Attica.
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Roberto Maldeno
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Ukraine: How international partnerships are contributing to the development of transportation infrastructure
By Yuriy Husyev (6.28.17)
Infrastructure in Ukraine, Europe’s largest country, is extremely underdeveloped. Without significant investment, it cannot support the existing or future needs of our economy or population. The reasons are many: decades of mismanagement under Soviet rule, economic crisis, and more recently, the conflict in the Donbass. Given that these constraints go beyond a simple lack of funding, the Ukraine Government is partnering with the Global Infrastructure Facility, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank.
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How the Mi Baño is helping Peruvians attain the dream of an in-home bathroom
By Luciana Guimaraes Drummond E Silva (6.22.17)
A team from the World Bank Group Water Global Practice, with support from PPIAF’s Sub-National Technical Assistance Program (SNTA), designed an innovative and effective solution to help households in Peru construct an in-house bathroom by involving the local private sector. The result was the “Mi Baño”: a bathroom in a box delivered to a client’s door ready to install, which can be financed through a micro-financing mechanism designed exclusively for its commercialization.
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