BIOGRAPHY: Giovanni Di Folco is the Senior Partner of Techno Engineering & Associates, an international consulting firm specializing in claims and dispute resolution internationally. He is a civil engineer with more than 25 years’ experience of managing multi-disciplinary civil engineering projects around the world. Mr. Di Falco also has extensive experience in project and contract management, contract administration, and claims preparation and defence in international arbitrations and adjudications.

With the assistance of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Government of Liberia awarded a five-year management contract for the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) to Manitoba Hydro International (MHI) of Canada in 2010. With the support of donors, including USAID, Norway, the World Bank and the European Union, the contract aims to rebuild the electricity system in Monrovia and significantly expand access to electricity while improving the operational and financial performance of LEC.

In 2009, Haiti’s national telecom company – Teleco – was rapidly losing market share and nearly $1.5 million a month in public funds. IFC helped the Government of Haiti and Viettel form a partnership that has turned around the fortunes of the company. Today, the new company – Natcom Haiti – has gone from 75,000 customers to 1.8 million and is turning a profit for both Viettel and the government.

This video is based on an external evaluation of IFC's public-private partnership in dialysis health services in Romania

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Engaging the Private Sector in Liberia's Electricity Future, You Tube Video 

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Creating a Sustainable Sanitation Cycle in Kenya

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• Recent sessions have included:
  • Southern African Development Community Countries (08 December 2015)
  • Canada (10 November, 2015)
  • Kenya (03 November 2015)
  • Europe and Central Asia (27 Oct 2015)
  • Kuwait (20 Oct 2015)

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Afghanistan, like many developing countries, has been seeking ways to develop and improve infrastructure within the framework of limited fiscal capabilities. In recent years, the World Bank Group has been working with the Government of Afghanistan on increasing private participation in infrastructure. Public-private partnerships are increasingly seen as a means to harness private innovation and finance while the government maintains ultimate ownership and insurance of the public interest.

In many Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries, an increasing number of PPP infrastructure projects are being jointly financed by conventional and Islamic banks. While these projects bring together conventional and Islamic tranches, one frequently asked question is: how are these two financing classes integrated in a single project?

While Kenya is still in the early stages of implementing a structured PPP program, litigation seems to be an emerging reality; this has both positive and negative ramifications.

Section 67 of the PPP Act 2013 provides for a Petition Committee to receive and resolve all complaints relating to the procurement of a PPP project in Kenya. The Petition Committee is in line with Article 50 of the Constitution of Kenya and acts as a tribunal to promote procedural fairness and transparency in the procurement of PPPs.