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 grants to developing countries’ governments to create enabling environments for private investment in infrastructure. PPIAF has 15 contributing donors.
Fiscal Year 2015 (July 2014 – June 2015) brought significant changes to PPIAF. A new strategy focused on programmatic support to client countries anchored by strategic knowledge initiatives was approved by donors. As per this strategy PPIAF’s core interventions focus on building institutions’ capacity and increasing national governments’ and sub-national authorities’ creditworthiness, political buy-in and ownership by strengthening the institutional, legal, and regulatory frameworks, managing associated risks, and enhancing transparency and accountability.
In July 2014 PPIAF provided funding to support the PPP Certification Program, which is strongly aligned with PPIAF’s strategy. PPIAF’s clients in developing countries, partners, and donors will benefit from the PPP Certification Program as it would help them to acquire the skills required in implementing PPP programs.
In the past two years PPIAF launched a number of large programmatic initiatives, building on partnerships with other development financing institutions, in the technical assistance field. In West Africa, PPIAF is supporting the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), under which umbrella member countries create an institutional architecture to facilitate regional and national PPP projects.
In the Caribbean, we are supporting the creation of a regional PPP framework. In South Asia, PPIAF is helping Bangladesh scale up the national PPP program. The City Creditworthiness Academy created with PPIAF support in 2013 continues to provide training academies to municipalities to invest in green and resilient infrastructure.
Since 1999 PPIAF has provided funding of over $260 million spanning over 135 developing countries across the world, in the energy, water and sanitation, transport, ICT sectors and various knowledge products, toolkits, and publications.
PPIAF Useful Resources
PPP Knowledge Lab
PPIAF Annual Report 2015
PPIAF Strategy fiscal years 2015-2017
Impact Stories
Toolkits
PPP Resources/Library
Follow PPIAF at http://ppiaf.org and via Twitter: @PPIAF_PPP
