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    Partners Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)         "Through Islamic modes of financing, IsDB has provided funding to many PPP projects. In line with IsDB's efforts to promote and support PPP projects; the APMG PPP Certification Program is an excellent initiative. The program’s body of knowledge, the...
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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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  • 9th Africa PPP Conference and Showcase
    The 9th Africa PPP event will include updates on the development of PPP project pipelines from a wide range of industry experts. The conference also provides a forum for hosting one-on-one meetings for delegates from PPP units across Africa.  The APMG PPP Certification program is already playing an...
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    APMG and Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation sign Memorandum of Understanding
    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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    Bridging the infrastructure gaps globally
    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...
  • 16th Annual PPP Summit, Melbourne, Australia
    The National PPP Summit returns for its 16th installment, examining the status of all major projects throughout Australia.  Understand the position of Australia in the global environment of PPPs including what's changed in the last year. Will Australia continue to move forwards in regard to...
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  • The 4th China PPP Financing Forum
    Co-organized by China PPP Center and Shanghai Financial Association, the 4th China Public Private Partnership Financing Forum will be held at Shanghai International Convention Centre, 22nd & 23rd November 2018. The Forum will cover hot financing topics and projects from the One Belt One Road...
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    Tendering and Awarding the Contract
    References
      Name of Document Authors/Editors and Year Description http link (when available) Key References for PPP Tender Processes Infrastructure Australia National PPP Guidelines Volume 2: Practitioners’ Guide Commonwealth of Australia (2011). Includes guidelines on PPP tender...
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    Establishing a PPP Framework
    1.9.1 Role of the Legislature
    The legislative branch of government, that is, the elected, law-making parliament or assembly may control the PPP process in several ways. Defining the PPP legal framework and policy: The PPP framework is often established in specific PPP legislation. As described earlier in this chapter, one...
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    Laurence Carter, senior director of the World Bank’s PPP group, talks about a new culture of collaboration between the development agencies
    PPPs and the World Bank have gone hand-in-hand since the model’s inception. Developing countries struggle to address infrastructure investment deficits without PPPs and struggle to get PPPs off the ground without the backing of multilateral development banks (MDBs). But although the World Bank...