CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY INFORMATION PLATFORM: FINANCING TOOLS
World Bank Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Type of institution: Global partnership, administered by the World Bank
Missions: The Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multi-donor technical assistance facility, financed by 17 multilateral and bilateral donors. It provides technical assistance to governments to support the creation of a sound enabling environment for the provision of basic infrastructure services by the private sector. PPIAF’s mandate supports activities in the energy, water and sanitation, telecoms, and transport sectors, as well as broader multi-sector activities such as the preparation of a PPP law, for example. Governments seek funding from PPIAF to help them explore the full range of options for publicprivate partnerships. The advancing of infrastructure development strategies is PPIAF’s core activity type, intended to guide governments with options for expanding private sector involvement in infrastructure, both nationally and sub-nationally. PPIAF also provides assistance for policy, regulatory, legal, and institutional reforms, for capacity building, and transaction advisory support for pioneering projects. PPIAF has developed a work program to be implemented over the 2011–2013 period, structured around three strategic pillars and cross-cutting themes. These strategic pillars logically group several key development priorities identified by PPIAF’s donors. The third pillar, urbanization, help governments cope with the infrastructure needs associated with rapid urbanization. This pillar is linked to a separate funding window managed by PPIAF, the Sub-National Technical Assistance (SNTA program. The SNTA program focuses on helping municipal governments and utilities develop their capacity to access private expertise and financing in order to extend and improve urban services.
Mode of funding: PPIAF and SNTA funding is open to local and national governments as well as regional entities around the world. Eligible countries include recipients of official development assistance as defined by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD. PPIAF funds are untied and grants are provided on a demand-driven basis. Specific activities must originate from or be endorsed by the relevant senior official in the beneficiary country. All PPIAF and SNTA grants must follow World Bank procurement guidelines. These guidelines promote open and competitive bidding for contracts and preclude those who prepare terms of reference for a project from performing work on that project.