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    PPP candidates in 57 countries now certified at Foundation level
    The Certified PPP Professional (CP3P) program continues to go from strength to strength since its launch in March 2016. Please find some of the key highlights to date detailed below: The increasing popularity of the scheme has resulted in PPP professionals from 57 countries around the world being...
  • Discover more about the PPP Guide & CP3P at PPP Americas 18-20th July 2023
    Live from Panama  At pppamericas.com  PPP Americas is the most important forum for discussion on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Latin America and the Caribbean, held every two years by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and hosted by a member government, with the participation of key...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
    10.1. Mechanisms for Dealing with Under-Performance and Non-Compliance
    When dealing with under-performance and non-compliance in the Construction Phase, the issue is not the standard of services provided but rather the time taken to complete the asset and the quality of the asset on completion. In general terms, the private partner is incentivized to bring the asset...
  • WAPPP Abu Dhabi PPP Forum 2023
    Information Our partners at the Word Association of PPP Units & Professionals are hosting a gathering of top industry professionals at their Annual Forum, the pinnacle event in the world of public-private partnerships. This year, they are bringing the forum to Abu Dhabi, during the World...
  • CP3P Foundation Exam and Chapter 1 of the PPP Guide now available in Romanian
    Since 2002, Romania has initiated a number of PPP projects that have supported economic growth and strengthened tourism, travel opportunities, healthcare, and infrastructural investments. Furthermore, new regulations introduced in May 2018 are helping to attract more interest from private partners...
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    First CP3P Foundation Course in the Netherlands
    The Netherlands Taskforce Financing International Water Centre (TF IWC) finished its first CP3P Foundation course, delivered by Marcel van de Broeke on behalf of  K-Infra at the beginning of December 2018. The 12 participants successfully took the exam, with an average score of 88%, the best scores...
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    CP3P Foundation Exam and Chapter 1 of the PPP Guide now available in Romanian
    Since 2002, Romania has initiated a number of PPP projects that have supported economic growth and strengthened tourism, travel opportunities, healthcare, and infrastructural investments. Furthermore, new regulations introduced in May 2018 are helping to attract more interest from private partners...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    Establishing a PPP Framework
    1.8.4 Budgeting for Fiscal Commitments
    Budgeting for PPPs involves making sure that money is appropriated and available to pay for whatever cost the government has agreed to bear under its PPP projects. Because such costs may be contingent or occur in the future, PPP budgeting can be hard to manage in traditional annual budget cycles....
  • High-Level Inaugural PPP Conference 2019
    Public Private Partnerships- Africa’s Next Big Thing, in Focus: People First Principles in Support of UN-SDGs The hallmark conference provides a platform to pitch investment opportunities and projects available in Uganda. Private sector players will also get the opportunity to know infrastructure...
  • Strengthening PPP good practice across Africa
    The continued population growth across Africa has resulted in increased demand for infrastructure development. This has in turn driven a significant rise in the number of investors seeking opportunities in this region. To support this increase in demand, more and more countries across Africa are...
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    Indonesian Government uses CP3P as best practice for delivering PPPs
    Imad Fakhoury, the Director of Infrastructure Finance, PPPs & Guarantees Global Practice at the World Bank gave a video statement congratulating to the IIGF Institute for becoming the first government entity to be an accredited training organisation.   Here's the full transcript:   We are part...
  • Pan-African Project Management Conference
    Accelerating Africa’s Economic Transformation through Project Management The main objective of the First Edition of the Pan-African PMC is to give a strong impetus to the awareness of the African community on the key role of project management technologies in the process of the Africa’s economic...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    Establishing a PPP Framework
    1.2 What is in a PPP Framework?
    A PPP framework should guide governments and private partners through each step in developing a PPP, ensuring that projects are well structured and delivered in line with expectations. The PPP framework will achieve this by outlining procedures and decision rules for various institutions, and by...
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    PPIAF: Supporting the APMG PPP Certification Program
    PPIAF (The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multi-donor technical assistance facility managed, staffed and housed by the World Bank Group in the Public-Private Partnership Cross Cutting Solution Area (PPP CCSA). Established in 1999, PPIAF provides technical assistance...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    Structuring and Drafting the Tender and Contract
    6. Testing, Marketing and Communicating the Project before Project Launch
    The project should have been sounded out during the Appraisal Phase (see chapter 4.9.1). It is good practice to conduct further market testing during the Structuring Phase to collect reactions, suggestions, and concerns from the industry (investors, contractors, and lenders following the options...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    Operations and Handback
    3. Contract Management and Administrative Process
    3.1. Introduction to Contract Management during the Operations Phase During the Operations Phase, key activities that must be included in managing the PPP contract are: monitoring and managing project delivery and performance against service outputs; monitoring and managing changes; managing...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    Structuring and Drafting the Tender and Contract
    5.2 Defining Risk: The Risk Management Cycle [36]
    An exact definition for risk is hard to find and its measurement is controversial as well. In literature, the word "risk" is used with many different meanings. The Oxford English Dictionary defines risk as "chance or possibility of danger, loss, injury, etc.”. In the context of an infrastructure...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    Operations and Handback
    7. Variation Management
    Variation management is closely connected with PPP agreement management and relates to the creation of mechanisms to enable changes to the PPP agreement. Such changes may be necessary as a result of a change in circumstances that could not be anticipated or quantified when the PPP agreement was...
  • Body of Knowledge:
    PPP Introduction and Overview
    Appendix A – Introduction to Project Finance
    Please see separate document Appendix B ­– Introduction to Islamic Finance Please see separate document. [40] The main reports cited are “PFI: Construction Performance. Report by the Comptroller and Auditor...
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    Three takeaway points from Infrastructure Dialogue 2016
    Infrastructure Dialogue “Off the beaten track” took place on 22-23 June 2016 at the Villa Kennedy in Frankfurt. Having attended both days, these are my perspectives on three highlights that were of particular interest to me. A glance at the market: putting recent Brexit developments into...