Below are a few videos and slideshows of PPIAF success stories.  In particular, the PPIAF in Action slideshows use pictures taken in the countries where PPIAF’s technical assistance was provided, to tell these stories through photographs.

 Maji Ni Maisha: Innovative Finance for Community Water Schemes in Kenya

In 2004, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Africa began to work with a local microfinance bank, to explore structures under which a commercial financier would be interested in providing loan finance to small community-based water providers. Two PPIAF-funded case studies identified a number of constraints, including affordability of capital investment, limited collateral available, and small water providers’ limited capacity to develop projects. They led to a proposal for a pilot project targeting five districts around Nairobi. In 2006, the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid approved US$1.15 million in grant funding for the scheme to be implemented by K-Rep Bank and supported by WSP. The project aims to increase access to and efficiency in water supply services for the poor in rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya. Its Swahili name is ‘Maji Ni Maisha’ which means ‘Water is Life.’ 

View the video in English, or with French subtitles (16 minutes). Read a related article.

Afghanistan, Ringing in the Future

From 2003–05 PPIAF supported the government of Afghanistan with the development of a regulatory framework and capacity building program for the Telecommunications Regulatory Board, which subsequently merged with the Afghanistan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in 2005. Following PPIAF’s assistance, the government introduced competition in wireless mobile services, international competitive bidding in Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) services, and local fixed service licenses. These measures enabled the rapid rollout of competitive services in a poor, war-torn environment and facilitated the transformation of Afghanistan’s telecommunication sector from a fragmented system serving few to a modern, efficient network putting Afghans in touch with one another and with the global economy—all in just a few years.

More information on PPIAF support to Afghanistan's telecommunications sector can be found in the related Impact Story.

View the video below (12 minutes).

Switch: The Story of Energy Reforms in Armenia

When Armenia became independent in 1991, it found itself in the midst of an energy crisis. For several years the country endured breadlines, unheated apartments, paralyzed transportation, and scheduled electricity cutoffs. How did the country overcome this crisis? What path did it take? What price did it pay? What was the outcome of the privatization route eventually chosen? And finally, what lessons does Armenia’s difficult journey offer other countries?

View the video in low definition (Real Player 256 K) (16 minutes).

PPIAF in Action slideshow: PPIAF Supports a Pioneering Transaction in Africa: The Dakar-Diamniadio Toll Highway in Senegal