PPIAF

The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multidonor technical assistance facility created to help governments in developing countries improve the quality of infrastructure through partnerships with the private sector.

Through policy, legal, and regulatory support, PPIAF helps governments explore arrangements for improving the delivery of services. It also supports capacity building for governments to strengthen their ability to design, manage, and regulate reform programs – and capacity building and training for policy makers, regulators, and civil society groups.

Support comes in the form of grants to help governments explore public-private partnerships in the financing, ownership, operation, rehabilitation, maintenance, or management of eligible infrastructure services. These include roads, ports, airports, railways, electricity, telecommunications, solid waste, water and sewerage, and gas transmission and distribution.

In July 2007, PPIAF launched a program to provide technical assistance grants to municipalities and publicly owned utilities to improve their credit rating so they can access market-based financing without sovereign guarantees. The goal of the Sub-National Technical Assistance Program (SNTA) is to help mobilize local capital for improvements in infrastructure services and promote the development of local financial markets.

For a breakdown of PPIAF’s portfolio for fiscal 2007, click here.