Preparing Bankable Public Private Partnership Projects
This course is unfortunately cancelled for 2012. An updated version of this programme will be offered in 2013.
PbPPP
Dates
Spring 2013
Duration
3 weeks
Tuition fee
€2,500
NFP application deadline
1 October 2012
IHS Application deadline
Spring 2013
Language
English
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Rationale of the Training Course
Governments, worldwide face the challenge to provide infrastructure and services in the appropriate quantity and quality. Governments are increasingly under pressure to perform with limited resources. Knowing how to leverage know how and finance for investment in infrastructure and services is essential. The trend, in recent years, has been for governments to work in partnership with the private sector to tap its potential and to increase funding from private sources. However, the process of preparing and putting projects out to bid is a lengthy and complicated process; the process of working together over the longer term is not an easy task. In fact, the knowledge and skills within government bodies to prepare bankable PPP projects that are sustainable over the longer term are often missing.
An important aspect of partnership projects is good project preparation; this ensures that value for money is created, risk is shared and problems in implementation are avoided. Well prepared projects help to avoid failures on the part of the private sectors to deliver. The process of structuring a healthy transaction can be challenging; governments and PPP professionals in countries world wide have been working for 2 decades to develop the tools needed to ensure that the preparation (and implementation) process run smoothly.
Course Curriculum
The course has a practical focus, it will deal with the key aspects of and issues faced in public private partnerships, will include three days of field visits to best practices in the Netherlands, and a programmed exercise that will take them through the process of putting together bankable PPP projects. The course will be case based, meaning that participants will analyse and discuss a diverse series of cases, from countries in the developing and developed world, and will derive lessons from these that will bring value to PPP interventions in their own countries.
Theme 1: The rationale
This aspect of the course deals with the why, what and how of public private partnerships, rational such as value for money, risk sharing and leveraging finance for infrastructure. It covers the benefits (and costs) of PPPs, different perspectives on PPPs, all supported by international cases that provide key learning experiences.
Theme 2: The Process
This theme unfolds the PPP process, focusing on the phases, PPP forms and the tools used to structure a transaction, an introduction.
Theme 3: The design I
Taking aspects of the design step by step, this part of the course provides an in-depth introduction to the tools used for decision making such as Value for Money Assessments, Cost Benefit Analysis, Public-Private Comparator and the Public-Sector Comparator.
Theme 4: The design II
Structuring institutions relations and the finance for PPPs: form follows function
Theme 5: The Business Case
The course includes programmed exercise that takes participants through the steps of building a sound business case
Theme 6: The Negotiation
Tender and negotiation strategies: this theme will look into tender strategies, procurement models, performance contracts, payment mechanisms and output financing.
Target group
Government officials, policy makers and managers, who are involved in setting up and executing public private partnerships in different infrastructure sectors. Also, academic or development community involved in providing support to governments involved in PPPs.
Course objectives
This course aims to build the capacity of its participants to prepare bankable public private partnerships projects.
By the end of the course participants should be able to discuss and analyse:
- The various phases of PPP project design and development, starting with project kick off, up to and including the tender and contract negotiation stage.
- The international principles and standards that govern partnerships.
- The practices used by countries with substantial experiences in PPP transactions.
- The tools available to build a project that provides value for money and will attract investors.
The final output of the course will be a PPP Business Case.
Methodology
Participants will be exposed to experienced practitioners involved in structuring PPP transactions and to the leading researchers in the field, as well as training that have substantial experience in partnerships and working in countries around the world. The training will employ a mixture of lectures, guided discussions and group work. For the most part, the training will be case-based, so as to maximise the applicability of the training to the participants. The cases will look at different kinds of partnerships and will highlight the range of issues and lessons in the partnerships. Work on the cases will be intensive as the workshop will replicate reality of the process of setting up partnerships and negotiating relations in complex arenas of stakeholders. The cases will take into account the type of political and power relations that can occur in partnerships, and the key challenges in managing interests and building trust. Participants will be required to work in groups on the set up of different partnerships, to analyse issues, decide if the information acquired is sufficient to make educated choices, use the tools provided, discuss and negotiate alternative approaches, and present and defend their own strategies.
Participants will be asked to make use of a range of skills in the training: they will make use of the analytic skills (classifying, organising and analysing data), application skills (applying concepts and techniques to a situation), creative skills (coming up with alternative solutions through a creative thinking process), and decision making skills (action orientation). The training will ask participants to make use of self-analysis skills (through discussion of perceptions from the perspectives of key partners, assess their own values and question attitudes to the stakeholder they work with).
