PPIAF Annual Report 2018 provides the reader with a qualitative cross-section of the breadth and width of PPIAF’s portfolio of activities, with snapshots of specific achievements to illustrate the impact of our work as we help governments strengthen institutions and governance. 

Armenia’s sixteen years of experience with public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector is a rich illustration of how partnering with private operators can be done in a strategic manner to improve water services in a developing country. The Government took a phased and cautious approach to the PPP reform, gradually increasing the geographical scope of the PPPs as well as the level of transfer of risks to private operators while learning lessons as it moved forward.

The World Bank Group, together with its development partners, has started to identify what makes a project sustainable, and to codify these characteristics into “standards” or “best practices.” The tools presented here showcase our efforts to empower better decision-making through standardization, and address a wide range of issues along the project-development life cycle.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is actively encouraging private investment in infrastructure, and a major part of this is building up a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program at both the national and provincial levels. In line with this, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the municipality of Chongqing to develop its own PPP program. The ADB has since hired Castalia to help develop an operational framework to guide Chongqing in this process. This framework includes ...

The Inter-American Development Bank, following its efforts to produce applied knowledge and evidence based analysis, has launched a new book entitled "Bringing PPPs into the Sunlight, Synergies Now and Pitfalls later?" This publication covers the institutional frameworks of PPPs with a focus on the implications for public finances in developing economies, offering practical policy recommendations for developing countries seeking to extract Value for Money from PPPs.”

The aim of this document is to provide guidance to governments when using People-first Public-Private Partnerships (PfPPPs) to deliver investment in roads infrastructure to also meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It aims to build on the experience of the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for road projects and provide a balanced, neutral account of both the pros and cons of road PPPs, including an accurate portrayal of the spectrum of risk and return assoc...

The aim of this document is to provide guidance to governments when using People-first Public-Private Partnerships (PfPPPs) to deliver investment in renewable energy infrastructure as a way of meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It aims to build on the experience of the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for renewable energy projects and provide a balanced, neutral account of both the pros and cons of renewable energy PPPs, including an accurate portraya...

The ECE supports the use of global partnerships for sustainable development and has produced this standard to provide guidance to governments considering the use of People-first Public-Private Partnerships5 to deliver investment in railway infrastructure as a way of meeting the Goals.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals raise a new challenge to Public-Private Partnerships, which have traditionally been designed as a “value for money” tool with very little regard to eradicating poverty and serving the poor. Overall, it can be said that not all Public-Private Partnerships are “fit for purpose” for the Sustainable Development Goals, nor is there a guarantee that the traditional Public-Private Partnerships model will lead to the successf...

The present document contains the ECE Declaration on a Zero Tolerance Approach to Corruption in Public-Private Partnerships Procurement aimed at facilitating the voluntary1 implementation and dissemination of the ECE Standard on a Zero Tolerance Approach to Corruption in Public-Private Partnerships Procurement contained in document ECE/CECI/WP/PPP/2017/4 and adopted by the Committee on Innovation, Competitiveness and Public-Private Partnerships.

The following document contains 10 guiding principles on People-first Public-Private Partnerships in response to paragraph 48 of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Team of Specialists on Public-Private Partnerships launched the work on the guiding principles at its eighth and final session in October 2016. Since then, various drafts of the guiding principles were discussed on numerous occasions with ...

In 2005, Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), did not have enough water supply to meet demand. More than 40 percent of the water produced was lost as leakage. Supply was intermittent. To increase supply to customers, the state-owned water utility, Saigon Water Corporation (SAWACO), competitively procured a contractor to enter a performance-based contract (PBC) for non-revenue water (NRW) reduction, with a focus on leakage reduction in one of its six hydraulic zones. In a ...

This session will focus on the maximization of Green Finance, in particular the development of conventional green finance, i.e. green bonds and green loans, the important role of Islamic green finance, and the role of climate mitigation instruments, such as catastrophe insurance products.

This session will discuss the implications of this “New World Order” for infrastructure, impacting cost, access, and usage. It will examine how policy-makers and private companies should respond to in this dynamic new world and how financiers can take advantage of the new asset opportunities.

This session will focus on emerging global, national, and sub-regional institutional arrangements (standards, agreements, policies, laws, and regulations) that will enhance infrastructure sustainability. It will present lessons learned about the linkages between infrastructure sustainability and governance, identify measures and good practices to monitor and evaluate social and environmental impacts throughout the project lifecycle, build on and consolidate joint MDB work on ensuring good ...