Public-Private Partnership Days 2010
Agenda

Outlook for PPPs
Global and regional financing outlook for PPPs over the short- and medium-term, and implications for government policies on PPPs.

Performance of PPPs – Are they delivering? Public and private sector representatives debate whether PPPs are delivering value as hoped for, and discuss how the outcomes can be strengthened in the future.

Roundtable on government responses to the crisis Examining the interventions that allowed large projects to move forward in a difficult financing environment, and the lessons for PPP policies from the crisis.

Thematic sessions
Sector-based Thematic Sessions will present a broad range of PPP projects and structures, illustrating innovations and important lessons. Panels will provide a mix of case studies from different regions.

• Mobilizing pension and institutional investment for PPP financing
  Exploring opportunities to better align long-term PPP assets with long-term funds available from pension, insurance, and sovereign wealth fund investors.
• Guarantees and government support for PPPs
  Examining some of the support mechanisms in terms of risk-bearing and providing financing for PPPs, looking at examples of guarantee funds, subsidy funds and financing mechanisms, and evaluating them in terms of appropriate policy responses.
• Governance issues in PPPs
  Discussing how to ensure good governance and transparency in PPPs, re-launching and rebidding of failed bids, revamping the architecture for PPPs, including the role and institutional set-up of PPP units.

Greening the PPP Agenda
Examining major programs and investment initiatives at the city and national level to reduce the carbon footprint of development and improve the efficiency of resource usage, and what coordinated policy and financing initiatives are needed to bring in the private sector.

Thematic sessions

• Water resources and municipal services
  Covering PPPs for water resources, including water supply, irrigation and water treatment, and municipal services, and reviewing a range of contractual structures.
• Transport
  Presenting case studies on PPPs in urban rail and BRTs, examining rail freight, and looking at innovative efforts to incorporate service quality in the incentive structure of PPPs.
• Social sectors – health and education
  Presenting a range of models combining different levels of private sector responsibility for service provision, facility construction, and operation. Evaluating the lessons from PPPs in countries that have had active programs, highlighting the differences between these PPPs and those in infrastructure, which many governments are more accustomed to.

Role of MDBs and development agencies in a changing PPP landscape: Roundtable discussion on innovations in projects and products
Focusing on recent innovative PPP projects, as well as adaptations in products offered by multilateral development banks.

PPP practitioner networks and capacity building
ADB, WBI and FOMIN-IADB are collaborating on a program for capacity building and knowledge management in PPPs, which includes developing regional and global networks for PPP practitioners.

Site Visits

Site Visits (optional) will bring participants to PPP projects in the Metro Manila area