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Key References - PPP Cycle
Practical Guidance on Implementing PPP Projects - PPP Program MaterialAU. 2015. National Public Private Partnership Guidelines - Volume 2: Practitioners' Guide. Canberra: Commonwealth of…
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Dealing with Unsolicited Proposals
An unsolicited proposal (USP) is a proposal made by a private party to undertake a PPP project, submitted at the initiative of the private firm, rather than in response to a request from the…
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Managing PPP Contracts
Managing PPP contracts involves monitoring and enforcing the PPP contract requirements; and managing the relationship between the public and private partners. The contract management stage spans the…
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Managing PPP Transactions
In the transaction stage, the government selects the private party that will implement the PPP. This process will also determine the effective terms of the contract. This stage follows the…
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Designing PPP Contracts
The PPP contract is at the center of the partnership, defining the relationship between the parties, their respective rights and responsibilities, allocating risk, and providing mechanisms for…
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Structuring PPP Projects
"Structuring a PPP project" means allocating responsibilities, rights, and risks to each party to the PPP contract. This allocation is defined in detail in the contract. Project structuring is…
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Appraising Potential PPP Projects
Potential PPP projects must undergo an appraisal process to ensure that developing and implementing them makes sense. For any proposed PPP project, there are five key criteria that governments should…
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Identifying PPP Projects
The first step towards a successful PPP is identifying a potential PPP project. Since a PPP is a public investment, most successful PPP projects originate from the broader public investment planning…
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Municipal and other subnational PPPs
Subnational governments including states, provinces, and municipalities provide many essential and basic infrastructure services, especially in water and sanitation and urban transport. Some…
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Broader PPP Program Governance
The executive branch of government is largely responsible for implementing PPP projects. The processes and institutional responsibilities described in PPP Processes and Institutional Responsibilities…
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Public Financial Management Frameworks for PPPs
Typically, PPP contracts have financial implications for governments. Payment commitments under PPP contracts are often long-term, and can be contingent on risk. Types of Fiscal Commitments to PPPs…
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PPP Processes and Institutional Responsibilities
Governments need commitment, skill, capacity, and coordination to implement PPPs successfully. Under a PPP contract, the private party will design, finance, build and maintain the infrastructure, and…
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PPP Legal Framework
The PPP legal framework refers to all laws and regulations that govern the PPP project cycle. Governments embarking on PPPs may need to adapt the existing legal framework to ensure—at minimum—that…
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PPP Policy
The first step for government in establishing a PPP framework is to articulate its PPP policy. PPP policy is used in different ways in different countries. This Reference Guide uses PPP policy to…
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Governments Don't Have to Go it Alone: Leveraging Public Funds to Attract Commercial Finance for Improved Water Services
This brief highlights the roles that governments can play and the mechanisms they can use to attract commercial finance into the water sector. This note also illustrates successful …
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Public-Private Partnerships for Irrigation: Expanding Access or Increasing Inequality
This policy note offers guidance on how to work toward these objectives, presenting emerging findings from a research project implemented by IFPRI together with partners from Ghana and Tanzania,…
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PPPs in Infrastructure Toolkit Booklet
The tool prioritizes projects through two composite indicators: (i) a social-environmental index synthesizing social and environmental criteria; and (ii) a financial-economic index condensing…
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2016 Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Annual Update
The document provide the annual update for the 2016 Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI).
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A Call for Infrastructure Development through Unsolicited Proposals : Tapping into private-sector innovation to improve infrastructure delivery
In 2020 the World Economic Forum (WEF) issued a Community Paper, calling for Infrastructure Development through Unsolicited Proposals : Tapping into private-sector innovation to improve…
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UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Public-Private Partnerships
The Model Legislative Provisions and the Legislative Guide on Public-Private Partnerships were prepared by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and…
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Unsolicited Proposals: Cure or Curse?
Presentations for the Third Global Roundtables on Infrastructure Governance and Tools. Published 2019.
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Unsolicited proposals: Why, why not, under what conditions?
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) were once believed by many to be the solution to all infrastructure-related issues—including financing, capacity constraints, and efficiency. We’ve since…
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World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers
The World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (Regulations), Annex XIV, Public Private Partnerships, section 5.3 discusses unsolicited proposals for public-private partnership (PPP)…
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PPP Motivations and Challenges for the Public Sector: Why (not) and How
This publication has been prepared to contribute to and stimulate discussions on public-private partnerships (PPPs) as well as to foster the diffusion of best practices in this area. Policy-…
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Rethinking Power Sector Reform
Rethinking Power Sector Reform is a multiyear initiative that provides an updated assessment of power sector reform issues at the global and country levels. It aims to reignite the policy debate…