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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 to pay for surveys leading up to transactions; disagreements with project host communities; and reluctance on matters relating to land acquisition. Therefore, a clear dialogue and transparent communication between the government and key stakeholders are imperative for achieving stakeholder support and establishing ownership of PPPs in a country.

This webinar will look at some key issues surrounding communication with key stakeholders in PPPs in Kenya.

It is important to understand and plan for the barriers that marginalized communities face before, during, and after disaster situations. DRM practitioners need effective strategies to assess gaps and challenges to inclusion throughout the DRM cycle. This webinar will serve as a basic overview of who are at risk of being excluded and what inclusive DRM entails, and how to identify entry points to ensure that the needs of all citizens are taken into account.

In particular, the webinar will focus on persons with disabilities. One billion people - 15% of the world’s population - live with some form of disability. Persons with disabilities face unique constraints and challenges at each stage of DRM and face a disproportionately higher risk of being left behind during disasters and emergencies. Lack of accessible evacuation and sheltering facilities, challenges in accessing information, loss of necessary aids and medical equipment, and disruptions in critical service delivery chains are just some of the obstacles that can significant ramifications for the survival and welfare of persons with disabilities. Similar barriers also affect children and the elderly.

In this webinar, presenter Margaret Arnold, Senior Social Development Specialist, and host of this webinar Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, Global Disability Advisor, will jointly discuss:

What are the social dimensions of DRM? How disasters affect excluded populations differently?

How to identify and work on entry points for inclusive DRM?

What are the most significant challenges that excluded populations, such as persons with disabilities, face in disaster situations?

Effective practices and case studies on disability-inclusive DRM.

The WB has recently developed a knowledge product to guide cloud computing adoption and conducted pilot studies for three developing countries. This webinar will share the findings and lesson learned from the project, which can be easily tailored to needs from any local government.

The session features cases of cultural misunderstanding, BLINK Model, group discussions and self-reflection for participants to better understand personal communication styles and behaviors and those of stakeholders , and to better navigate cultural challenges in working and communicating with international stakeholders.

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 receive and resolve all complaints relating to the procurement of a PPP project in Kenya. The Petition Committee is in line with Article 50 of the Constitution of Kenya and acts as a tribunal to promote procedural fairness and transparency in the procurement of PPPs.

Specific Petition Committee Guidelines were published in 2014 to support its functioning and to guide petitioners, and the Government of Kenya finalized Petition Committee Regulations recently. Given the frequency of litigation, the Petition Committee has been fully occupied with this work since its establishment.

New technologies have reduced the development cost of products, services and business models. Cloud computing, open software and hardware, social networks and global payment platforms have made it easier to start business with fewer physical resources and personnel. This trend is allowing aspiring entrepreneurs to take advantage of cities’ agglomeration effects: entrepreneurs “want to live where the action is,” where other young people, social activities and peers and entrepreneurs are. They look for conventional startup support, such as mentor networks or role models, but also for meet-ups, social activities and other potential for innovative “collisions” – a combination of opportunities best provided by cities. Fostering tech innovation ecosystems will provide skills for today’s new job landscape and innovators to create new companies and industries, while also addressing local problems from developed and developing countries. Cities, as technology ecosystems and engines of innovation, will be at the center of these new potential transformations. Gianluca Galletto and David Sierra explain how their organizations, the New York City Economic Development Corporation and Ruta N in Medellin, respectively, support entrepreneurship and data-driven innovation within urban innovation ecosystems.

The second webinar presents who proactive engagement with identified beneficiaries, leveraging the ubiquitous presence of ordinary cell phones, can help fight petty corruption, improve service delivery and help improve trust in the state. In particular, the webinar will focus on how this mode of engagement, already widely practiced in the private sector, can help deliver quick wins and political dividends to create space for more reforms. It will also show that it can be implemented in a wide variety of public sector service delivery settings at a relatively low cost.

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 are these two financing classes integrated in a single project?

In this webinar, we will discuss the case of a hospital PPP project where both conventional and Islamic banks are present as lenders. The case will present the transaction structure and the documentation involved in the structure that put together these two types of lenders in one transaction, focusing on the Istisna’a modes of financing.

Istisna’a financing requires the Islamic banks to provide fixed rate of pricing, while the conventional lenders mainly provide long-term variable rate financing. This webinar will discuss the methodology applied to bring in the pricing parity between conventional and Islamic lenders in PPP projects.

While presenting the transaction structure, this webinar will also discuss the case of security sharing, treatment of some conventional fees by the Islamic banks, lenders’ decision-making processes, and specifics of Islamic finance.

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 areas. This creates challenges while implementing PPP projects, since the very right of the authority to develop the project or enter into an agreement with the private sector may be questioned.

The Government of Kenya has recently drafted its County PPP Regulations, which aim for greater clarity in the roles and jurisdiction of implementing and contracting authorities at the national and county level. The regulations were developed in the context of the changes brought about by the devolution process. This webinar will discuss the trends, practices, challenges, and implications of the County PPP Regulations with a focus on clarifying roles at the national and subnational levels.