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Connecting PPP practitioners

Connecting PPP practitioners. Clive Harris Practice Manager, PPPs World Bank Institute. The World Bank Institute. WBI is World Bank’s group for external capacity development Focus on “how to” of reform Renewal in 2009 to focus on 7 themes:

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Connecting PPP practitioners

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  1. Connecting PPP practitioners Clive Harris Practice Manager, PPPs World Bank Institute

  2. The World Bank Institute • WBI is World Bank’s group for external capacity development • Focus on “how to” of reform • Renewal in 2009 to focus on 7 themes: • PPPs, Urban, Health, Growth and Crisis, Climate Change, Governance, Fragile states • Working through 4 platforms: • Structured learning, Knowledge exchange, Innovation, Leadership and coalition building

  3. Main platforms of WBI • South-South knowledge platform www.southsouth.info • Development Marketplace and Innovation Radar • Learning products including e-learning and “serious games” • Extractive industries and anti-corruption platforms • Global Development Learning Network

  4. Practitioner networks for peer-to-peer knowledge exchange • Share experiences and approaches to policy and transactions • Global and regional: • PPP Days – 2010 held in Manila, March 22-24 • Francophone Africa, February 2010 • Caribbean • South-East Europe and the Mediterranean June 2010 • Asia PPP network – late 2010 • PPP practitioner networks: • Are undertaken in collaboration with regional partners (MDBs, governments) • Involve regional structured learning as well • Use face-to-face and GDLN to allow practitioners to network and share experiences • On a selected basis exchanges between countries

  5. PPP Practice: Practitioners Networks to Country Level Impacts GDLNs and Global PPP Forum Site Pick Up High Priority Themes • PPP Practitioner Meetings • Global PPP Days as a regular and unique practitioner meeting • Regional forums being developed in Asia, SE Europe/Mediterranean, Africa • Practitioner-driven Identify south-south knowledge & practitioner links • Country or Multi-Country • Activities • Supporting country level reforms: • Generated through practitioner meetings • Use practitioner network as key resources Refine content of future practtitioner events • Knowledge and Learning Products • Learning products incorporate case studies gleaned from practitioner meetings/country level work • Knowledge products key part of delivery of events Connectivity and cross-fertilization

  6. Example of program of work for a Regional PPP Forum • Francophone PPP Forum held February 2010 in Abidjan • Active support from WBG: AFR (PSD, SD), MIGA, IFC, Anchor, PPP GET) • Financial support from ACBF, PPIAF • Over 200 participants from 21 countries • Good representation from Cote d’Ivoire government despite the dissolution of government 2 days before • Country specific impacts: • Workshop helped move forward discussions on the preparation of two PPP projects with WBG assistance • Engagement now with government on strengthening the institutional framework for PPPs to improve quality of projects and oversight of PPPs • Network activities: • “Chair” of network appointed and GDLN discussion will be held to set network directions • Government of Mauritania have asked for capacity building program commencing with in-country workshop on developing framework for PPPs • Set of follow-up multi-country GDLNs scheduled for countries which attended, covering legal and institutional issues • Regional impacts: • Energized interest in Anglophone PPP Forum, scheduled now for summer 2010 with SADC, DBSA • Ghana has also requested workshop on PPP program to interact with MDBs, private sector and to hear relevant regional experiences

  7. The Global PPP Network • Global PPP Network collaborative site launched at PPP Days 2010 www.pppnetwork.info • Forum for PPP practitioners to share experiences and resources • PPP Days E-conference will be launched on the Global PPP Network May 17, • Will cover main topics via discussion forum • Will run for 4 weeks covering 1 topic per week • Features PPP Days speakers as invited participants • Open to all who join Global PPP Network

  8. Learning products and training • WBI approaches: • Involve deliver with regional and national partners • Use of e-learning and blended learning • PPP learning products being developed in close partnership with ADB, MIF/IDB • Global learning material on PPP policy fundamentals being developed • Will be used as basis for new training programs with regional or national partners

  9. Regional/Global training activities planned • Development of training curriculum for India and roll-out via state level training institutes • Regional training programs on PPPs in SE Europe, Asia • Piloting Education PPP training in Africa • Focus also on developing learning products in health, education and urban space • Developing material on PPPs for civil society, parliamentariansa

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