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Wenesday, December 17, 2008 |
Venue: Eugene Black Auditorium, H Building, World Bank |
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Breakfast and Registration |
| 0900-1030 |
Topic 1: Management of financial close and long-term bankability of PPP projects |
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What are recent experiences in reaching financial close? How can a PPP Unit support successful financial close? Why do some projects fail to reach financial close? What are key bankability issues? Emphasis will be placed on key issues in financial close; recent global markets developments: did they effect bankability?; and how project risks can affect the bankability of a PPP project.
Moderator
Peter Mosley, Sr. Counsel, Legal Private Sector Development, World Bank
Presenters
Chee Mee Hu, Senior Vice-President, Project and Infrastructure Finance Ratings Group, Moody’s—
Short– and long–term bankability issues of PPPI Projects: how do rating agencies approach PPPIs
on the project level
Robert Sheppard, Co-Chair, Infrastructure Experts Group, United Nations—
Management of Financial Close and Long-Term Bankability of PPP Projects
David Ssebabi, Head of PPP Unit, Ministry of Finance, Uganda—Bankability issues in developing
countries and problematic of financial close; the recent experiences of Uganda
Discussion
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| 1045-1100 |
Break |
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Topic 2: Risk mitigation and how to make the best use of guarantee instruments in PPP transactions |
| 1100-1230 |
What role do guarantee instruments play alongside equity and debt finance for PPPI? How can PPP specific risks be mitigated using various guarantee instruments? What are the role of government and other actors in providing guarantees? Should public sector get involved in guaranteeing PPPs? What are the examples of innovative approaches in both the developing and developed world? Presentations will focus on specific case studies and the discussion is expected to take up the general issues.
Moderator
Marilou Jane D. Uy, Sector Director, Financial And Private Sector Department,
Africa Region, World Bank
Presenter
François Bergère, Head of PPP Unit, Ministry of Finance, France—Mitigating PPPI project risk: The French experience with government underwriting of PPPI guarantees
Jay-Hyung Kim, Director, PIMAC, Korea Development Institute, South Korea—Role of Guarantee
instruments in Korean PPPI market development
Robert Schlotterer, Financial Analyst, AFTEG, World Bank FEU, World Bank, and Elena Palei, Senior Underwriter, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency—The role of multilateral agency guarantees in power distribution PPP in Uganda
Discussion
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| 1230-1400 |
Lunch |
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Topic 3: Project development: Focusing on cost and delivery |
| 1400-1530 |
What are the costs of project development for PPP? How does the procurement method influence project costs and the time frame? How to benchmark project delivery cost? What are the tools to make PPP project delivery affordable? How to manage advisors to achieve efficiency and balance costs? Are the costs of project development justified? What are the internal versus external capacities for project development?
Moderator
Jordan Schwartz, Lead Economist, Latin America and Caribbean Region, Sustainable Development
Department, World Bank
Presenters
Rui Sousa Monteiro, Senior Economist, PPP Unit, Parpublica, Portugal—Managing a PPP project: design, procurement and contract management
Richard Foster, Head of PPP Unit, Partnerships Victoria, Australia—Efficient management of Advisory costs and costs overruns in PPP project development
Rania Zayed, Head of PPP Unit and Advisor to Minister of Finance, Egypt—Costs of project development and procurement in Egypt
Patricio Mansilla, Vice President, Chemonics, Peru—PPP cost management and efficiency: theory and
practice in the experience of Chile and Peru
Discussion
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| 1530-1600 |
Break |
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Topic 4: PPPI Days and PPPI Global Network: Roundtable discussion about future developments |
| 1600-1730 |
How can the potential of the PPP Network be expanded to benefit the knowledge sharing and capacity building needs of PPP units worldwide? What specific performance requirements of PPP units can be met through such knowledge sharing and capacity building? What is the value of face to face workshops, global video dialogues, e-learning and other instruments? What could be the role of multilateral agencies, private PPP associations, and other players?
Moderator
Govind Nair, Lead Economist and Program Leader, PPPI Program, World Bank Institute
Discussants
Zere Seidimbek, Deputy Chairman, Kazakhstan PPP Center,
Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning, Kazakhstan
Eva Karina Callejas Sierra, Direccion General Comision Presidencial de Modernizacion del Estado, Honduras
Ahmad Wali Shairzay, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy and Water, Afghanistan
Miguel A. Almeyda Casillas, Specialist, Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter American Development Bank
Godwin Brocke, Director Member PPP Unit, Research Statistics and Information Management,
Ministry of Transportation, Ghana
Haroon Khawaja, Chairman, Chief Minister's Secretariat, Pakistan
Bambang Susantono, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure and
Regional Development, Indonesia
Jim Vianne Mugunga, Senior Public Relations Officer, Privatisation and Utility Sector Reform, Uganda
Otgonbat Sedbazar, Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Mineral Resources & Energy, Mongolia
Rogerio Princhak, Executive Secretary, Public and Private Partnership Program, Secretariat of Finance of State of Bahia, Brazil
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| 1730 |
End of Day 3 |
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