Course Details
Course Outline
8 days course
Understanding PPPs: Definition, Rationale & Requirements
- Definition of Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) & range of deferent PPP contracting modalities
- Understand all key phases of the PPP project cycle & their requirements
- Specific required government tasks and decisions throughout the PPP project cycle
- The specific role of PPP advisors and practical techniques for how to manage and oversee them
- Case Study: PPP structures & results from energy & transport sector PPP programs and transactions
Requirements for Effective PPP Frameworks: PPP Policies, Laws, Regulations & Units
- Key elements of PPP frameworks: policy, strategy, laws, regulations, institutions, model procedures & guideline manuals
- PPP policy statements & strategies
- Key requirement of PPP laws – key clauses for ensuring PPP affordability, transparency, and value for money (VFM)
- Designing & managing effective PPP Units
- Case Study: PPP frameworks, outcomes & lessons
Identifying & Selecting Appropriate Projects for PPPs: Methodologies & Techniques
- Understand the key criteria for selecting candidate projects for PPPs
- Models for designing multi-criteria analysis in selecting PPP project candidates & applying PPP Fiscal Risk Affordability Management (PFRAM) models to determine public financial sustainability
- Designing & drafting PPP project concept paper
- PPP pre-feasibility studies, implementation plans & terms of Reference (ToR) for PPP feasibility study consultants
- Exercise: Evaluating a portfolio of candidate PPP projects
Managing & Completing PPP Feasibility Studies: Models for Preparing Sustainable PPP Investments
- How to oversee & manage PPP consultants & advisors for completing feasibility studies & producing viable PPP business cases
- Identify, analyse, and allocate all relevant PPP project risks
- Harmonize the conclusions, findings, and recommendations of each feasibility study into a coherent PPP business case
- Develop measurable, enforceable & “cost-able” output-based performance standards for the specific infrastructure sectors: transportation / ICT / energy / water / wastewater / hospitals / schools, etc.
- Case Study: Infrastructure PPP feasibility studies
Understanding PPP Financing Requirements: PPP Financial Models & Techniques for Ensuring PPP Bankability & Affordability
- Key requirements & differences between infrastructure financing strategies: Sovereign Finance vs. Corporate Finance vs. Project Finance
- Understand all key financial analysis measures & statements of PPP viability
- Evaluate, understand and critique PPP financial models prepared by specialist PPP consultants transaction advisors
- Employ different credit enhancement options to strengthen PPP financial viability and bankability for financing
Managing & Overseeing PPP Procurements & Transaction Advisors: Tendering Documentation & Reaching Transaction Closure
- Select PPP procurement options
- Select appropriate PPP tendering technical and financial qualifications and award criteria for specific sectors
- The process of designing, drafting and reviewing PPP tender documents, including RFQs, RFPs, Draft PPP Contracts, Investment Memoranda, etc.
- Effective techniques to market, promote, and attract investors & lenders to infrastructure PPP investments
- Effective PPP transaction management techniques to ensure awarded PPP reach commercial and financial closure
PPP Stakeholder Management & Sustainability Techniques: Models for Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Impact Analysis & Mitigation
- Models for conducting PPP stakeholder identification, analysis & developing proactive stakeholder management plans
- Institutional techniques for PPP stakeholder management
- Managing PPP project communications, public relations, and media
- Models for identifying, analyzing, measuring, and mitigating PPP project social and environmental impacts: Equator Principals & ESG Mitigation Models
- Techniques and models for PPP stakeholder participation & “pro-poor” empowerment techniques for PPPs
Managing Long-Term PPP Contracts: Models for PPP Technical, Economic & Legal Performance Monitoring & Regulation
- Planning for PPP contract management
- Institutional models for PPP Project Management Units (PMU)
- Models for monitoring & regulation PPP technical performance and quality of service delivery
- Economic models for PPP contract price-setting and payment adjustment models
- Techniques for the legal management of PPP contracts, renegotiation techniques, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) models
- Exercise: Developing the organizational and management plan for a PPP contract’s Project Management Unit (CMU) to manage and monitor technical, cost, and legal contract performance for PPPs (energy, transport, environmental, healthcare or education)
