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    PPP Introduction and Overview - Appendix B - Sharia Finance
    9. Tangible and Intangible PPP Project Assets
    Islamic financing of a PPP project normally assumes an asset-based project financing that requires the transfer of tangible/real assets. However, there may be some situations where the transfer of tangible/real assets is not permitted. For example, if a PPP project asset is of cultural and/or...
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    PPP Introduction and Overview
    8.4. The Private Sector's (prospective bidders') Interest and Concerns about the Entire PPP Process
    PPPs require the existence of private agents willing to enter into a long-term contract assuming significant risks, as well as financial investors willing to invest equity (and sometimes debt) in the projects, and banks willing to lend to those projects. The projects have to be commercially...
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    Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Latin America offer numerous advantages, addressing infrastructure deficiencies and promoting economic development. By leveraging private sector capital and expertise, PPPs facilitate the efficient development of transportation, energy, and water projects....
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    Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
    5.3. Reasons for Unsuccessful PPP Projects during the Construction Phase
    Several studies show that some PPPs were cancelled during the Construction Phase due to the lack of or a poorly executed contract management function[17]. See table 7.4. TABLE 7.4: Examples of Projects Cancelled during the Construction Phase Project Reason Light Railway Transit (LRT...
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    Project Identification and PPP Screening
    9. Scoping the PPP Project and its Challenges
    Scoping the PPP project means defining the work that must be done by the future private partner to deliver the project objectives. Potentially some portions of the project scope (technically speaking) may be refined and removed from the PPP project (for example, if the project selected is a bus...
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    Establishing a PPP Framework
    1.8.2 Identifying and Quantifying Fiscal Commitments to a PPP Project
    A government’s fiscal commitments – both direct and contingent – will be established by the PPP contracts. The value of direct liabilities will be relatively simple to quantify. In many cases its value will be explicitly expressed in the contract. Valuing contingent liabilities is more complicated...
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    Appendix Bid Preparation and Submittal the private sector perspective
    6.8 Fundraising
    6.8.1 Negotiating with Banks The consortium’s financial advisory team prepares the Project Information Memorandum (PIM). The PIM sets out details of the PPP project, including the anticipated key contracts and projected revenues. Assuming a financing competition, a group of funders will be asked to...
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    APMG International and Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation (SIF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the APMG PPP Certification Program. SIF, a not-for-profit Swiss foundation headquartered in Geneva, coordinates the provision of SOURCE, the multilateral platform for quality...
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    Structuring and Drafting the Tender and Contract
    4.7 Categories of Revenue Regimes in PPP Projects
    Some PPP projects are funded wholly or primarily through user payments. This is most common in economic infrastructure sectors. Financial structuring matters that arise in user-pays PPPs are discussed in section 4.8. Other PPP projects are funded wholly or primarily through government payments....
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    Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
    8.5. Amendments and Renegotiation of PPP Contracts
    Managing the changing environment and emerging risks through amending and adapting contracts is key to de-stressing projects. As such, there are very few, if any, absolute prohibitions on amendment of PPP agreements in any jurisdiction with significant PPP projects. The European Union (EU) has one...
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    PPP Introduction and Overview - Appendix A - Project Finance
    2. Basic Considerations of PPP Project Finance
    An agreement to complete the project and a commitment to provide all the funding necessary to complete the project; Established demand for the project outputs such that the project will generate sufficient cash to meet all its operating expenses and debt servicing requirements, even if the project...
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    Appraising PPP Projects
    5 Designing a Preliminary Structure of the PPP
    One important aspect of the project, which needs to be preliminarily defined during appraisal, is the PPP contract structure, specifically in terms of the: Financial structure from the government perspective (revenue regime, contract term, and so on). See box. 4.3. Risk allocation structure....
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    Establishing a PPP Framework
    1.6.2 Appraise the Project
    Candidate projects that survive the “screening” are then developed and appraised. Again, this is an iterative, or multi-stage, process. The appraisal report, often called a “Business Case”, is typically the basis for approval to proceed with the PPP transaction. In describing the framework in this...
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    Seyed Hossein Hosseini Nourzad is an Assistant Professor of Construction and Project Management at University of Tehran and is also CP3P certified. He discusses the insights the program gave him and how the framework has helped with project delivery. 1. What first prompted you to a career in public...