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PPIAF Annual Report 2021

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2017 Key Highlights

• In 2017, private investment commitments in energy, transport, ICT backbone and wa- ter infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries totaled US$93.3 billion across 304 projects.

• Although the 37 percent increase in investments over the 2016 level could be a sign of re- covery, it is still the second-lowest level of investment in the past 10 years, and 15 percent below the average for the past five years.

The PPI Database is comprised of information on more than 8,700 infrastructure projects with private participation, dating from 1984 to 2016. This report presents the latest data from 2016, and analyzes trends in investment primarily over the past six years, breaking down the data by region, country, infrastructure sector, and sources of financing.

For over 20 years, PPIAF and its partners, particularly governments, donors, and international development institutions, have worked to build the capacity, regulatory, and institutional framework necessary to stimulate private sector participation (PSP) in infrastructure. PPIAF’s work helps its clients work with the private sector to continue providing financing and operating infrastructure services when systems and economies are under unprecedented strain. The pandemic is not the only challenge facing emerging markets.

This year’s annual report highlights the ways PPIAF's work has contributed to the SDGs, both directly and indirectly. All PPIAF's work supports Goal 8, to promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. It also feeds directly into Goal 9, which calls for building resilient infrastructure. These two goals go hand in hand. But we also address other SDGs.

In 2015, PPIAF’s work focused on developing strategic engagements that seek to leverage PPIAF resources with partnerships for greater effects . Programmatic technical assistance (TA) is a sequence of activities designed to tackle multiple aspects of the enabling environment in a country, region or sector over the course of one or more years, to achieve more wide-ranging objectives; strategic knowledge initiatives, on the other hand, use the same partnership principles to leverage knowledge resources to tackle a global learning question .