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We have also sponsored several other capacity building events, as follows:
Country Date Partners Topic
Nigeria
November 14–16,
2011
South Africa March 26, 2012 AFD
Singapore January 15–21, 2012
IFC, WBI, WB
ESMAP, ADB,
WBI, AFD,
SSATP
8
PPP Workshop on Best
Practices and Lessons
Learned from Recent
African Case Studies
Municipal Revenue
Management Master Class
Capacity Building Training
Leaders in Urban Transport
Planning
Number of
participants
300
40 from 13
countries in
Africa
66
participants
from 33
countries
In these events, we disseminated close to 4,000 copies of PPIAF materials, including PPIAF publications
and Impact Stories, to around 1,400 people.
Preparing lessons learned and other knowledge materials. We continue preparing materials to share
lessons learned on PPPs, disseminating case studies funded by PPIAF and publishing them on the
website, and preparing short notes on various topics, including a series of notes on PPPs in fragile states,
sub-national financing, and pricing and affordability in essential infrastructure services.
Partnerships. We are constantly looking for new partners to deliver much-needed training on PPPs to
government officials, mainly from Africa. We have spoken with the Development Bank of South Africa and
the PPP Unit of South Africa, within the National Treasury, to partner for the delivery of training to
governments who so desire this, as they have an established training program. We also partnered with
the Agence Française de Développement to deliver training on sub-national financing in Durban in March
2012.
Strengthening collaboration
We continue developing new partnerships and strengthening existing ones with key players such as the
Global Partnership for Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), the Energy
Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), IFC InfraVentures, IFC’s Conflict-Affected States in
Africa (CASA) initiative, and other teams from the World Bank and IFC, to innovate on new and more
effective ways of providing technical assistance. These relationships will help us to be more strategic and
focused, as well as ensure that our interventions are sequenced and achieve results. Some of the
partnerships we continue developing include:
Cities Alliance: Joint donor meeting in Kampala in June 2012; co-sponsoring the Policy Advisory Forum
under the topic ―Financing of African Cities,‖ held in Maputo on November 7, 2011; and participating in
Cities Alliance Program Council Meeting held on November 8–9, 2011.
A partnership with Cities Alliance has as objective to maximize the synergies between the two programs
and will enable us to leverage more resources to support the urban development of African Cities. Cities
Alliance is supporting Urban Planning to meet future needs of populations; PPIAF can support the
development and implementation of specific infrastructure projects, which are identified in this planning
process, as follows: structuring PPPs and supporting improvements in the financial capacity of public
utilities, whether providing water, electricity, urban transport, waste collection, etc. With our various