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APMG had the opportunity to chat with first ever successful candidates to have completed the Preparation exam of APMG’s PPP Certification course from our ATO in Korea - P3Korea, thus getting closer to achieving the coveted CP3P credential. Find out more about their experience and how they intend to...
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1. What first prompted you to a career in public private partnerships?
I've had my first contact with PPPs in Law school in my freshman year. Then, I ended up starting an internship program at Dal Pozzo Law Firm, where I still work, and had the opportunity to work in the structuring and drafting of...
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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...
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IsDB is one of the Multi-National Development Banks (MDB) supporting the APMG Public-Private Partnerships Certification Program, as well as a major contributor to the PPP Certification Program Guide. We speak with IsDB's Fida Rana, from its Public Private Partnership Division to discuss its...
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Video of Booking an Online Exam with APMG International
Foundation Exam
The Foundation certification is designed to measure whether a candidate has sufficient knowledge and understanding of the PPP Guide to act as an informed team member of a PPP finance project.
This exam is aimed at...
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The third and final exam within APMG’s PPP Certification Program will be available soon. The Foundation and Preparation exams are already available, giving individuals the opportunity to demonstrate, through passing the Foundation exam, that they have a good knowledge of the PPP process and...
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Introduction
The PPP Certification Program Guide, referred to as the PPP Guide draws upon the work of many people. We are particularly grateful to the following groups of contributors;
The team of authors, who drafted the PPP Guide and conducted an internal review;
The external review panel...
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PPP資格認定プログラムが日本語でスタート
APMG のPPP資格認定のための試験が日本語で受けられるようになった。これまでは、PPP資格の認定は、英語、中国語、スペイン語、フランス語、ブラジス系ポルトガル語、ロシア語、セルビア語の7 か国語で試験を受けられるようになっていたが、これに日本語が加わることになった。APMGは、PPP資格の基礎試験のテキストとなるPPPガイドの用語集と第1章を2018年12月に日本語で公開していたが、このテキストを活用した試験がようやく日本語で受けられるようになった。...
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Since 2004, Brazil have steadily introduced an impressive number of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects to combat the effect of the financial crisis in the early 2000s. This progression has enabled Brazil to better manage public interests and services by private investors. The steady incline...
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Region-wise summary of APMG Accredited Training Organisations (ATOs)
Name of ATO
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Levels available
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Public training courses available
ACA (South Africa) EnglishAfrica, North America, Australia, Europe, AsiaFoundation,...
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Body of Knowledge:
Structuring and Drafting the Tender and Contract
Any contract may be terminated early for a number of reasons instead of continuing for its expected life. A typical classification of reasons for early termination is listed below.
Termination for convenience (or "unilateral termination”).
The government will always reserve the right to terminate...
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Body of Knowledge:
Appraising PPP Projects
In the process of inputting data to the financial model, several assumptions would have been made, and the model must be sufficiently flexible to reveal the impact on the final cash flows of changes in those assumptions.
All the sensitivity drivers are typically concentrated in a summary sheet that...
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Body of Knowledge:
Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
Once the PPP contract is signed and financial close has been achieved (refer to chapter 6), the Construction Phase commences. This culminates in a form of commissioning, which triggers the beginning of the Operations Phase. While the structure of the PPP Certification Guide treats the Construction...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
Privatized Companies and Companies operating in a liberalized and regulated market — “Regulated Investor owned utilities”.
There is often confusion between privatization and PPPs (especially with user-pays PPPs). But there is a clear difference between these two forms of private sector engagement....
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Body of Knowledge:
Structuring and Drafting the Tender and Contract
This chapter covers the period from the preliminary decision to invest in a PPP, once the project has been appraised, to the official launch of the tender for the project contract.
It corresponds to two main tasks and areas of knowledge.
The structuring and design of the project contract; and
The...
