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Building capacities for PPPs
Clive Harris
Manager, Public-Private Partnerships
World Bank Institute
The World Bank is stepping up efforts to
build capacities for PPPs
World Bank Institute has PPPs as one of six focus themes
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WBI is responsible for client learning in WBG
Undergoing renewal process which is seeing focus on
selected areas, one of which is PPPs
Network of partner institutions, Global Distance Learning
Network (GDLN) centers
Three business lines —structured learning, knowledge
exchange, innovation-sharing platforms
World Bank Group Global Expert Team on PPPs
 Provides WBG global knowledge & experience on PPPs
 Undertaken over 20 assignments, advising and
transferring experiences, most related to dealing with
impacts of crisis
A new vision for WBI
WBI as connector of global knowledge networks
 Focus on knowledge being generated in “BRICs” and knowledge
hubs in developing countries
 “South-South” platform and learning critical to WBI strategy
 Move from retail to wholesale in the development and delivery
of structured learning
 Flagship modular courses with world class partners, customized & delivered
through country/regional institutions & use of technology
 Knowledge exchange via peer-to-peer practitioner learning
 Peer-to- peer practitioner networks; multistakeholder consensus building &
peer networks
 Focus on innovation-sharing
 Development marketplace on frontier challenges, wholesale & franchise
through country institutions; Innovation zones & secondments
Structured learning models and
approaches from other sectors
Flagship learning progams
• Distill and package international best practice
• Modules customized to different country setting, developed with NVPs,
donors, worldclass partners (Harvard, MIT, Lee Kuan Yew School)
Are then customized and wholesaled
• Networks of institutions – China network of 27 health institutions
• Technology – 30,000 municipal officials with TEC Monterrey, Brazil
LED 18,000 with mass-media & web
• Certification – India Urban Management Certification
Developing capacity-building architecture
• Engaging on broad review of capacity building architecture for urban
sector in India as part of major government investment program
South-South learning platform and trust fund
• Resources and platform to provide peer-to-peer contacts and
knowledge exchange for specific requests
WBI is developing a broad program of
capacity building for PPPs
Practitioner networks
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PPPI Days is center piece: the only global meeting place
public sector PPP practitioners: March 22-23, focusing on
future of PPPs following financial crisis, and “growth”
sectors such as urban
GDLN/VC events used for specific knowledge requests
Additional regional activities: Caribbean PPP Forum/Training,
Dec 2009, Anglophone and Francophone Africa PPP Forums
Structured learning
 Core course on PPP fundamentals, to be developed with
set of partner universities who will be “wholesale” hubs
 Urban PPP training as part of broader India urban capacity
building program
Partnerships are crucial to effective
capacity building
Public good aspects to some capacity building activities
• Means resources are more efficiently utilized if done in partnership
Cross-regional learning and knowledge transfer is maximized
• Development of PPP approaches and experiences in Asia, Europe,
Africa, Latin America etc. means that we need to develop strong links
both between PPP practitioners and learning institutes => collaborative
effort from regional development banks and others
MP3IC initiative
• ADB, IADB and World Bank have begun collaboration through MP3IC,
which covers range of activities including networking events (PPPI
Days), development of diagnostics and development of learning
materials
Global PPP network
• Can be built up from the global and regional meetings to form a
“virtual” network for knowledge and learning and share innovations
Thank You
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