Preparing Bankable Public Private Partnership Projects

Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)

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Program description

This course aims to build the capacity of its participants to prepare bankable public private partnerships projects.

What are the key aspects of and issues faced in public private partnerships? Diverse series of cases in this course, from countries in the developing and developed world, offer lessons that will bring value to local PPP interventions.

Governments, worldwide face the challenge to provide infrastructure and services in the appropriate quantity and quality. Governments are increasingly under pressure to perform with limited resources. Knowing how to leverage know how and finance for investment in infrastructure and services is essential. The trend, in recent years, has been for governments to work in partnership with the private sector to tap its potential and to increase funding from private sources.

However, the process of preparing and putting projects out to bid is a lengthy and complicated process; the process of working together over the longer term is not an easy task. In this course you will work with the tools that governments and PPP professionals developed to ensure that the preparation (and implementation) process of PPP projects run smoothly.

Course Outline
The Preparing Bankable Public Private Partnership Projects course has a practical focus, it will deal with the key aspects of and issues faced in public private partnerships, will include three days of field visits to best practices in the Netherlands, and a programmed exercise that will take them through the process of putting together bankable PPP projects. The course will be case based, meaning that participants will analyse and discuss a diverse series of cases, from countries in the developing and developed world, and will derive lessons from these that will bring value to PPP interventions in their own countries.

Target Audience
Government officials, policy makers and managers, who are involved in setting up and executing public private partnerships in different infrastructure sectors. Also, academic or development community involved in providing support to governments involved in PPPs.

Course objectives
The course aims to build the capacity of its participants to prepare bankable public private partnerships projects.
By the end of the course participants should be able to discuss and analyse:

• The various phases of PPP project design and development, starting with project kick off, up to and including the tender and contract negotiation stage.
• The international principles and standards that govern partnerships.
• The practices used by countries with substantial experiences in PPP transactions.
• The tools available to build a project that provides value for money and will attract investors.

About the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies

The Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) is an international centre of excellence of the School of Economics (ESE) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. IHS operates on a global scale by offering postgraduate education, training, advisory services and applied research.

IHS was selected as the winner for the 2007 UN-HABITAT Scroll of Honour Award for leading the way as a global center of excellence and knowledge through its high quality training programmes in housing, urban management and urban environmental management and planning.

In 2008 IHS celebrated its 50th anniversary of assisting countries, cities and institutions to find suitable approaches to housing and sustainable urban development, and strengthen their capacity to implement them.

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Admission requirements

Previous education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Professional experience

At least 3 years work or academic experience.

Language requirements

IELTS overall band: 6, IELTS listening: 5.5, IELTS reading: 5.5, IELTS writing: 5.5, IELTS speaking: 5.5, TOEFL paper based: 550, TOEFL computer based: 213, TOEFL internet based: 79