Expanding Educational Opportunities in Remote Parts of the World: Evidence from a RCT of a Public-Private Partnership in Pakistan

By Felipe Barrera-Osorio, David S. Blakeslee, Matthew Hoover, Leigh L. Linden, Dhushyanth Raju, May 2013.  

 

The publication evaluates the effects of the Promoting Low-Cost Private Schooling in Rural Sindh (PPRS) program on child enrollment in a sample of 199 villages in 10 underserved districts of rural Sindh province, Pakistan. The PPRS program seeks to expand access to primary education in underserved rural communities through public-private partnerships (PPPs) with local entrepreneurs.

 

Public-Private Partnerships and the poor - Case report 3: Awami tanks in Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan

This is a case report on water service projects in Karachi, Pakistan, where the performance of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has declined severely causing shortages and other problems in the area. Specifically, the report focuses on analyzing how, because of a public-private initiative, the water supply situation was smoothed in a quite large informal settlement at Karachi. The report also draws important conclusions about this particular public-private partnership and gives some recommendations about it.

Lessons from the Independent Private Power Experience in Pakistan

Pakistan’s first private power project, the Hub Power Project, and its subsequent 1994 private power policy – both supported by the World Bank – were lauded by the international investment community. Pakistan succeeded in attracting over $5 billion in investment and contracting about 4,500 megawatts of private generation in record time. However, macroeconomic instability in the country and financial problems in the power utility revealed some of the shortcomings in the policy and its implementation.

Project Preparation and Feasibility Guidelines for PPP Projects in Pakistan

Project feasibility guidelines set out a simple methodology by which implementing agencies/institutions will be able to: Carry out an initial exclusionary screening of projects to select projects suitable for development as PPPs; carry out a preliminary feasibility study to further develop the project concept and verify its potential viability before a full feasibility study is undertaken; complete a feasibility study that ensures that a decision to proceed with the project as a PPP is based on awareness of costs, risks, and value for money; conduct a risk appraisal methodology; devise a ba