This guidebook provides a sound methodology to help regulators and telecommunications operators adopt a tariff regime and deal with interconnection disputes on the basis of a rigorous cost model.
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PPIAF. 2014. Unsolicited Proposals—An Exception to Public Initiation of Infrastructure PPPs: An Analysis of Global Trends and Lessons Learned. Washington, DC: Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility. [#1097]
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PPIAF supported the preparation of an infrastructure framework report for the government of Gabon in 2003, with the objective of assessing the legal, regulatory, and institutional framework for private sector participation in infrastructure, and evaluating the potential for private sector investment across the infrastructure sectors. In 2008 PPIAF provided additional support to try to remove bottlenecks to competition in the telecommunications sector through an examination of interconnection issues.
The Republic of Cameroon (Cameroon) is a country with a vast natural and economic potential, as its geographic diversity favors varied economic and agricultural activities. Cameroon has one of the highest proportions of land area devoted to conservation in Africa (around 14% of its territory). It exports oil and has significant natural resources, including high-value timber; agricultural products including coffee, cotton, and cocoa; and as yet untapped natural gas, iron, bauxite, and cobalt.
The water company owned by the Brazilian state government of Sergipe (“DESO”) had gone through several years of mismanagement when, in early 2007, the state government decided to hire professional managers to run the company. Although the results of the management change were starting to show, the company still did not have access to commercial sources or to local development finance institutions. DESO could not adequately demonstrate the impact of the financial and operational turnaround being implemented to the potential financiers.
The fiscal constraints of governments across the globe open the door to new opportunities and challenges to crowd in private sector solutions, innovation, and finance to create new solutions and pathways to meet Paris Agreement goals on climate change. Participation of the private sector in climate-smart investments and infrastructure is critical and public-private partnerships (PPPs) are among the key solutions.
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.
Fiscal Year 2015 (July 2014 – June 2015) brought significant changes to PPIAF. A new strategy was approved in 2014 by donors, and implementation began; specifically, PPIAF launched a number of large programmatic initiatives in the technical assistance field. In West Africa, PPIAF is supporting the West African Economic and Monetary Union, under which umbrella member countries create an institutional architecture to facilitate regional and national PPP projects. In the Caribbean, PPIAF is supporting the creation of a regional PPP framework.
The program is being delivered in two phases—a development phase and an execution phase—and adopts a “twin track” approach to respond to regional- and country-level needs.
The development phase is focusing on institution building at the regional and national level: