Learning Objectives

The candidate that completes the Public Private Partnerships Preparation training should be able to demonstrate understanding of how to apply and tailor the established procedures, roles and institutional responsibilities that determine how the government selects, implements and manages PPP projects, as outlined in the PPP Guide:

• Offer relevant insights in discussions about the value and importance of having a PPP Framework, its objectives and scope, and what it should include;
• Recognize ways to establish a PPP Framework in different jurisdictions, taking account of existing legal and administrative traditions, and offer alternative approaches;
• Use an understanding of how the Framework guides each stage of a typical PPP Process to propose and evaluate its application to a given governmental context;
• Identify the government roles and responsibilities within a PPP Process, and provide insight on how they can be allocated effectively between various government agencies and their Advisors;
• Help others understand the principles and techniques that enable responsible public financial management of PPPs, and suggest ways to ensure appropriate oversight and transparency of PPP Programs;
• Help to evaluate whether a project offers sufficient economic benefit to proceed and is technically sound, considering its environmental and social impact;
• Support the screening of a PPP project with insight into how to avoid the risk of allocating resources into the analysis and structuring of a non-feasible PPP project;
• Help to define a project management plan and communication plan, ensuring all stakeholders are considered;
• Support the main activities required to detail the scope of a PPP Project, and help to define its technical requirements and assess technical risks;
• Use the basic techniques and good practices to help produce a series of feasibility assessments of the technical, commercial, economic, environmental, social, legal, and fiscal dimensions of a project, as well as identify and understand the main issues and risks associated with the decision to procure the PPP project including how to conduct a Value for Money assessment;
• Use an understanding of the tasks involved in designing a financial model, from the government’s perspective, to propose and evaluate the financial structure for a PPP project;
• Establish the basic elements required to design a preliminary contract structure, including risk allocation;
• Identify the main issues of estimating costs and suggest ways of adjusting them for risk;
• Help to define a strategy for market testing, observing the key aspects of the Process relevant to its success, whilst giving consideration to the strategic issues involved (including transparency and governance);
• Use an understanding of the basic structure of alternative procurement routes, and how they relate to the outcomes of the Tender Process, to propose an appropriate procurement route for a PPP project.