Building on the success of PPPI Days 2006, the Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure (PPPI) Program of WBI is organizing PPPI Days 2007 to be held on June 7-8, 2007 at the Word Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC. This year’s event will focus on further enhancing and expanding the global network of PPP units as new countries have joined and there is more active participation from the private sector. The main objective is to foster an extensive dialogue on common challenges, innovations and best practices on PPPs in infrastructure. The diversity of structural organization, functions, governance and policy making among PPP units will further enrich the discussion.

The event offers a unique knowledge-sharing opportunity among experienced as well as relatively new PPP agencies from developing and developed countries. The following issues will be addressed among others:

• How government’s vision for the PPP program influences design and implementation
• The challenge of high project development-costs and how governments address it
• Innovative infrastructure solutions and the role of a well structured financial market
• Views and experiences of ex-post management of PPP contracts
• Private sector’s exit decision and how the public sector deals with the issue
• PPPs in social infrastructure and its challenges
• Case studies on
• Health and Education PPPs
• Transformation challenges of privatization agencies to PPP units
• Lessons learnt from success and failure