Australia, through the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), joined PPIAF's Donor Council in May 2007. PPIAF has recognized that the private sector not only brings capital and mobilizes resources for investments in infrastructure, but it also brings cutting edge technologies, management best practices in both the implementation and long-term operation and management of infrastructure, professionalism and leadership, and tools to achieve efficiencies. PPIAF supports governments in developing countries as they seek to modernize, rehabilitate and build new infrastructure to deliver basic services such as clean water and sanitation, irrigation, electricity, roads, seaports and airports, and better telecommunications to underserved populations with the participation of the private sector. PPIAF has worked and continues to work in Australia’s priority regions and countries, and seeks to expand our collaboration by continuing to develop a partnership as the Australian aid program grows to 0.5% of Gross National Income in 2015.

Read more about PPIAF's collaboration with AusAID in the Australian Government and PPIAF: Working with the Private Sector [PDF].

Australian private investment in developing countries has concentrated on energy projects and in East Asia and the Pacific. This note [PDF] from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Database examines investments by Australian sponsors from 1995-2010.