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This series of podcast presents some lessons from PPP experience around the world, discussing relevant cases and identifying best practices.

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Public-Private Partnerships (video) episodes:

01.12.2017
Improving Infrastructure Regulation for Low-Income, Fragile and Low-Capacity Countries
Two critical challenges for countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) are creating sustainable peace and constructing a path for growth. Often functioning with limited capacity, these countries possess unique characteristics to produce and enforce infrastructure regulation. In order...
12.13.2016
Virginia P3: How Proposals Are Identified and Screened for PPP Development
Virginia began its experience with Public-Private Partnerships by passing the Virginia Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA) of 1995, which provided the legal framework for PPPs in the transportation sector. In 2002, the Virginia legislature passed the Public-Private Educational Facilities & Infrastructure...
12.09.2016
Infrastructure Project Finance in 2016
Some countries and regions were successful in reviving their infrastructure project finance markets in 2015 compared with the previous year, others less so. Overall, there was a slight rise in volumes, with the transport and renewables sectors leading. In 2016,...
11.30.2016
Unified Framework for Feasibility Assessment: Republic of Korea
The Republic of Korea has a long history of PPP. Its early experience consisted of individual legislation for specific projects. In 1994, the government began to formalize its process with the passing of the Act for the Promotion of Private...
11.22.2016
An Attractive Environment: The Netherlands Approach to Identifying/Screening PPP Projects
The Netherlands has a rich history of private participation in the development of its public infrastructure, dating back to the country’s beginnings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, the idea of formalized PPP immigrated to the Dutch political establishment...
11.16.2016
Value for Money: Identifying/Screening PPP Proposals in South Africa
In 1997, the South African Cabinet approved an inter-departmental task team to create a package of policy, legislative, and institutional reforms to create an enabling environment for PPPs. To facilitate this work, several pioneering PPPs were carried out by the...
11.01.2016
Identifying/Screening Projects for PPP Implementation: Afghanistan
Afghanistan, like many developing countries, has been seeking ways to develop and improve infrastructure within the framework of limited fiscal capabilities. In recent years, the World Bank Group has been working with the Government of Afghanistan on increasing private participation...
10.26.2016
Financing and Funding Kenyan PPPs – Emerging Trends and Issues
This is a joint initiative of the World Bank Group and the PPP Unit Kenya. PPP projects of all sizes have faced challenges securing commercial financing. Governments have therefore attempted to improve the bankability of projects using key support instruments...
10.05.2016
Institutional Quality and Impact on PPP Implementation in Kenya
While legal and regulatory frameworks enable the creation and implementation of PPPs, it is important that there is a second tier of institutions and processes to facilitate the implementation of the law, regulations, rules, and policies. In the absence of...
09.20.2016
Framework for MFC & Contingent Liabilities for PPPs in Kenya
Kenya’s PPP Act of 2013 requires every PPP project to be assessed for its impact on the government’s balance sheets. The assessment is mandated to take place at the feasibility stage, following the completion of negotiations with the preferred bidder,...
09.13.2016
Public Private Partnerships in Brazil after Rio Olympic Games
Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, has had broad experience with PPPs, and since the global economic slowdown in 2009, the Brazilian government has further prioritized infrastructure investment. As host of the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016,...
06.28.2016
Communications and Social License Issues in Kenyan PPPs
Both public support and stakeholder engagement are essential for a PPP program’s success. Interests and preferences of these stakeholders can impact the outcome of PPP programs and project ideas. Some emerging issues surrounding stakeholder engagement in Kenya include the willingness...
06.14.2016
The Role, Impact, and Consequences of Litigation in Kenyan PPPs
While Kenya is still in the early stages of implementing a structured PPP program, litigation seems to be an emerging reality; this has both positive and negative ramifications. Section 67 of the PPP Act 2013 provides for a Petition Committee to...
05.31.2016
The Use of Islamic Debt in Social Sector Projects
In many Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries, an increasing number of PPP infrastructure projects are being jointly financed by conventional and Islamic banks. While these projects bring together conventional and Islamic tranches, one frequently asked question is: how...
05.18.2016
PPPs at the Sub-National Level: Trends, Practices, Challenges, and Implications
Kenya’s new constitution (passed in 2010), lay the groundwork for devolution. As with any country in transition, there is a lack of clarity between the roles and jurisdiction of the implementing authorities at the national and county levels in several...
04.27.2016
The Use of Islamic Debt in Energy Sector Projects
In many Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries, an increasing number of PPP infrastructure projects are being jointly financed by conventional and Islamic banks. While these projects bring together conventional and Islamic tranches, one frequently asked question is: how...
03.22.2016
Mobilizing Islamic Finance: Basics & Relevance to PPPs
Islamic financing is starting to emerge as a significant source of funding for PPP infrastructure projects, such as airports, toll roads, sea ports, independent power plants, and hospitals. With the increased effort by emerging economies to mobilize private financing for...
12.09.2015
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs: Southern African Development Community Countries
In the Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states, PPPs are being increasingly seen as a solution for challenges related to efficiency, capacity and fiscal constraints. This webinar will discuss the main issues and challenges related to the frameworks for...
11.11.2015
PPP Frameworks and Guidelines in Canada
Canada is now considered among the world’s more mature PPP markets. Clarity and predictability built into the PPP process through robust frameworks and guidelines are among the distinguishing features of such markets. This webinar will discuss Canadian PPP frameworks and...
11.03.2015
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs: Kenya
This webinar aims to review Kenya’s infrastructure financing and PPP program from the lenses of its legal and regulatory frameworks. Kenya issued a National PPP policy in 2012 and adopted a PPP Act in 2013 facilitating the establishment of a...
11.03.2015
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs: Europe and Central Asia
This webinar will discuss important features of the legal and regulatory framework for PPPs in Kosovo, including defining PPPs, preparation for and procurement of such contracts, and institutional roles and responsibilities involved in Kosovo’s PPPs. It will also focus on...
10.20.2015
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs Kuwait
Kuwait is seeking to mobilize enhanced private investment in infrastructure and services using the public-private partnerships model. As a part of this strategy, the Government of Kuwait has enacted a new PPP law (Law No. 116 of 2014) to replace...
10.15.2015
Creating a Framework for PPP Disclosure
A framework for proactive PPP disclosure is similar to any general proactive disclosure policy in terms of the broad guidance – i.e. what should be disclosed, when and in what form, what should not be disclosed and the responsibilities for...
10.14.2015
Disclosure Practices in Public-Private Partnerships in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Even before the approval of Brazil’s Law on Access to Information, in 2011, the practice regarding PPP projects in Brazil was one of significant openness and disclosure, with full proactive disclosure of PPP contracts and their variations, as well as...
10.08.2015
Freedom of Information Acts and Disclosure in Public-Private Partnerships
Governments have been (and continue to be) the primary focus of most transparency demands and regimes, including disclosure specific to PPPs. A key factor underlying and supporting better transparency and accountability practices in jurisdictions appears to be the wider government...
10.06.2015
Infrastructure Financing through PPPs in the Middle East and North Africa Region
This webinar discusses how PPPs can be a mode for infrastructure financing, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
09.29.2015
Recent Global Trends in Infrastructure Project Finance
In the first quarter of 2014, many emerging countries were still struggling to mobilize financing flows to infrastructure, although there were key signs of a revival. A year later, some countries and regions appear to have been successful in reviving...
09.23.2015
What’s New in India: Examining PPP Financing Trends
The Economic Survey of India 2014-15 had stated that the expectation that the private sector will drive investment may need to be modified, looking at a combination of the situation of Indian public sector banks and corporate balance sheets. It...
09.15.2015
Mobilizing Private Sector Finance for Infrastructure in Africa
Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA) completed a yearlong wide-ranging research programme that was funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). The aim of the programme was to understand the main constraints on the flow of private capital...
06.03.2015
PPP Procurement in India - Public and Private Perspectives
This webinar seeks to look at the public and private perspectives on PPP procurement in India. Public-Private Partnerships have been seen as an important form of procurement for the delivery of services across sectors in several emerging markets globally. However, developing...
06.02.2015
Role of Fairness Auditor in PPP Procurement
A unique feature of the PPP procurement process in the Canadian provinces such as British Columbia and Alberta, among others, is that of the Fairness Auditor. A Fairness Auditor is retained by the procuring authority early during the process as...
04.28.2015
PPPs in Pakistan: the Road Ahead
The Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, established the Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) in May 2006 to facilitate the preparation and closure of PPP transactions. The IPDF was expected to provide expertise and hands on support to Implementing Agencies...
04.14.2015
Building on the Foundation: The Future of PPPs in India
India saw a surge in the number of PPP projects and the amount invested during the period leading up to 2010-11. This was on the back of a rapidly growing economy and a government sensitive to creating the appropriate framework...
03.17.2015
Small Projects in South Asia – Thimphu Urban Parking PPP in Bhutan
Sub-national governments at provincial and local levels in South Asia have turned to PPP projects, which are relatively smaller in size, for the provision of essential services like solid waste management, energy-efficient street-lighting, municipal parking etc. These services, if delivered...
02.18.2015
PPPs in Bangladesh: Institutions and Financing
Bangladesh brought out the Private Sector Infrastructure Guidelines in 2004 followed by the Policy and Strategy for PPP in 2010 which took a more holistic approach to PPP. Recently, the Bangladesh Cabinet approved the PPP Law. The current PPP Framework...
11.11.2014
PPPs and the Project Finance Market
This webinar will discuss the current state of project finance markets globally in the context of public-private partnership projects, specifically in Asia, Europe and Africa, focusing on market characteristics and project structure. It will also discuss whether governments can change...
09.05.2014
Debt Financing Support to PPPs in India – Policy and Instruments
India has provided support to public-private partnerships in infrastructure through a variety of instruments, frameworks and institutions, prominent among these being the Viability Gap Financing (VGF) scheme, the India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), the India Infrastructure Project Development Fund...
09.05.2014
Public-Private Partnerships in Grain Storage
This webinar on PPP in Grain Storage will discuss the general trends in PPP in Grain Storage globally with focus on cases from a few countries where PPP projects are being developed or implemented. In addition, the Punjab Silo Project...
07.15.2014
Disclosure of Project and Contract Information in PPPs
This webinar presents a review of current practices on the disclosure of information on PPP projects and contracts, and discusses the desired features of a framework for proactive disclosure in PPPs. Many countries have been trying to implement freedom-of information...
05.06.2014
Government Support to PPPs
Governments have supported PPPs through a variety of instruments such as equity, debt, grants, guarantees, and contractual clauses pertaining to risk allocation. Many of these instruments have been used frequently or even consistently in PPPs in developing countries since the...
04.16.2014
PPP Contract Management: Experiences in Latin America
Since PPP programs in Latin America began twenty years ago, the selection and structuring of PPP projects have improved substantially. However, contract management (monitoring of contractual obligations, renegotiation, dispute resolution, and contract termination) has been a constant challenge for governments....
04.04.2014
La gestión de contratos APP: Algunas lecciones aprendidas de los APP de Latinoamérica
El programa APP en Latinoamérica se inició hace 20 años. La selección y estructuración de los proyectos APP han mejorado sustancialmente, sin embargo, la gestión de los contratos (supervisión de obligaciones contractuales, renegociaciones, solución de controversias y terminación de contratos)...
04.04.2014
Fiscal Management of PPP Commitments and PPP Risks
Any proper institutional framework for designing and implementing PPP projects requires some kind of arrangements for managing their fiscal consequences. It is not simply a matter of fiscal responsibility, but also a matter of credible commitment by the government, demonstrating...

What's Public-Private Partnerships (video) about?

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Public-Private Partnerships (video) episodes:

Improving Infrastructure Regulation for Low-Income, Fragile and Low-Capacity Countries

Virginia P3: How Proposals Are Identified and Screened for PPP Development

Infrastructure Project Finance in 2016

Unified Framework for Feasibility Assessment: Republic of Korea

An Attractive Environment: The Netherlands Approach to Identifying/Screening PPP Projects

Value for Money: Identifying/Screening PPP Proposals in South Africa

Identifying/Screening Projects for PPP Implementation: Afghanistan

Financing and Funding Kenyan PPPs – Emerging Trends and Issues

Institutional Quality and Impact on PPP Implementation in Kenya

Framework for MFC & Contingent Liabilities for PPPs in Kenya

Public Private Partnerships in Brazil after Rio Olympic Games

Communications and Social License Issues in Kenyan PPPs

The Role, Impact, and Consequences of Litigation in Kenyan PPPs

The Use of Islamic Debt in Social Sector Projects

PPPs at the Sub-National Level: Trends, Practices, Challenges, and Implications

The Use of Islamic Debt in Energy Sector Projects

Mobilizing Islamic Finance: Basics & Relevance to PPPs

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs: Southern African Development Community Countries

PPP Frameworks and Guidelines in Canada

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs: Kenya

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs: Europe and Central Asia

Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in PPPs Kuwait

Creating a Framework for PPP Disclosure

Disclosure Practices in Public-Private Partnerships in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Freedom of Information Acts and Disclosure in Public-Private Partnerships

Infrastructure Financing through PPPs in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Recent Global Trends in Infrastructure Project Finance

What’s New in India: Examining PPP Financing Trends

Mobilizing Private Sector Finance for Infrastructure in Africa

PPP Procurement in India - Public and Private Perspectives

Role of Fairness Auditor in PPP Procurement

PPPs in Pakistan: the Road Ahead

Building on the Foundation: The Future of PPPs in India

Small Projects in South Asia – Thimphu Urban Parking PPP in Bhutan

PPPs in Bangladesh: Institutions and Financing

PPPs and the Project Finance Market

Debt Financing Support to PPPs in India – Policy and Instruments

Public-Private Partnerships in Grain Storage

Disclosure of Project and Contract Information in PPPs

Government Support to PPPs

PPP Contract Management: Experiences in Latin America

La gestión de contratos APP: Algunas lecciones aprendidas de los APP de Latinoamérica

Fiscal Management of PPP Commitments and PPP Risks