The following text is adapted from the GPOBA brochure “Output-Based Aid at Work in Public-Private-Partnerships”, found here: https://www.gpoba.org/sites/gpoba/files/OBA51_PPP.pdf
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) is a parastatal organization in charge of the water supply service in the city of Blantyre, Malawi. The organization has established several payment modes that vary from payments directly done to the BWB offices, banks, supermarkets, or pharmacies, to Mobile Payments, case in which BWB customers with specific mobile carriers “need to register for the service and load money in their phones which will enable them to pay for their bills.”
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“The Electric Social Compensation Fund (FOSE) promotes profitable RE private investment in off-grid power in rural towns, through subsidies, as part of a social inclusion policy.
The FOSE (legislated through Law No. 27510 of 2001) intends to promote electricity access to all residential customers whose consumption is lower than 100 kWh per month and to promote private investment in rural electrification systems under 20 MW.
This sample agreement of a water and lease includes the possibility of including in the contract alternative water provision means such as standpipes and water kiosks; and indicates that whenever possible, the Operator shall subcontract local standpipe and kiosk management to standpipe agents and to communities. (Provision 23).
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This document explains the lessons learned from contractual arrangements with third parties for service provision, and ways to deliver improved management service in the water sector mainly in low income countries. It provides examples and different ways that would enable a practitioner to understand local needs and carve existing and new solutions accordingly.
The document mentions some examples of protecting the interests of the poor, such as:
作为“领先实践”工作的一部分，GIH与Norton Rose Fulbright（一家全球律师事务所）合作编制政府和社会资本合作（PPP）合同风险分配报告（2016版），报告所述矩阵展示了典型PPP交易中政府和社会资本之间的风险分配以及缓解措施，以及典型的政府支持安排，并且专门为运输、能源及供水与卫生行业的12个特定项目类型编制了独立矩阵。
El GI Hub ha contratado a Norton Rose Fulbright, una firma global de abogados, para preparar un informe sobre la Asignación de Riesgo en Contratos de Asociación Público-Privados (APP), versión 2016 (el Informe), con matrices que muestran la asignación de riesgo entre los sectores público y privado en transacciones APP típicas, conjuntamente con información relacionada sobre medidas de mitigación y arreglos característicos de soporte gubernamental. Se desarrollaron matrices separadas para 12 tipos designados de proyectos en los sectores de transporte, energía y agua y saneamiento.
This article explains the importance of the infrastructure sector for the economy of a country, and how SMEs can benefit from it, either by improving their businesses, or by leveraging their inherent local advantage (ie they would not face certain non-commercial risks as the direct foreign investors would.)
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This is James Zhan's intervention at the Expert Meeting on Assessing the Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Trade and Development in Developing Countries in Geneva, 2013. It highlights issues related to the promotion of SME in global value chains by the collaboration between the public and private sector.
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As part of its ‘leading practices’ mandate, the GI Hub is developing a set of annotated risk allocation matrices for public-private partnership (PPP) transactions, in a variety of sectors. Risk allocation is at the centre of every PPP transaction, and a deep understanding of the risk allocation arrangements is a precondition to the drafting of every PPP agreement. The appropriate application of risk allocation principles is what determines whether a given PPP project will be ‘bankable’ (i.e. financeable), and whether it will be long-lasting (i.e.