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Dear friends,<br />
1<br />
May 11, 2012<br />
I am pleased to present to you the FY2012 Program Manager’s Report. As you will notice from this report,<br />
this has been another active year for PPIAF, in which we continued delivering important technical<br />
assistance to governments. We are constantly innovating to deliver better, faster, and efficient technical<br />
assistance, adapted to the stage of development and needs of each country. Herein please find a<br />
summary of the various areas in which we have been working this year:<br />
Technical assistance to client governments<br />
During the first three quarters of FY2012, PPIAF has provided funding of close to $9.5 million for 71<br />
activities under the PPIAF and Sub-National Technical Assistance (SNTA) programs across all regions.<br />
This is a significant increase on the same period in FY2011 when approved activities totaled $4.2 million.<br />
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the second quarter was a highlight and saw strong demand with 17 PPIAF<br />
activities approved for a value of over $2.4 million, the largest quarterly commitment to Sub-Saharan<br />
Africa since the second quarter of fiscal 2010.<br />
In the Middle East and North Africa, PPIAF is supporting the first public-private partnership (PPP)<br />
transaction in the West Bank and Gaza by providing funding for legal advisory transaction support for the<br />
Southern West Bank Solid Waste Management Project, to be structured by the IFC. In the same region<br />
the first SNTA activity was approved, with the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities in Lebanon embarking<br />
on an ambitious decentralization policy. The activity will provide creditworthiness support to the Al Fayhaa<br />
Union of Municipalities and the Municipalities of Tripoli, Mina, and Beddawi.<br />
PPIAF has also been active in other regions such as Eastern Europe and Central Asia where it is<br />
helping the government of Albania prepare a privatization strategy for several hydropower plants.<br />
In South Asia, PPIAF is supporting PPP pipeline preparation and initial implementation with funds to the<br />
government of Nepal to support the screening and initial feasibility assessment of a pipeline of potential<br />
PPP projects, and also in the Maldives providing post-award contract management support for a<br />
pioneering PPP transaction in the solid waste management sector.<br />
In Latin America and the Caribbean, PPIAF is supporting the preparation of a performance-based<br />
efficiency improvement contract for the National Water and Sewerage Agency (IDAAN)’s Colon Business<br />
Unit.<br />
Lastly, in East Asia and the Pacific, PPIAF is supporting an activity in Lao PDR that will assess the<br />
suitability of transport projects to be structured as PPPs. In this period the SNTA program in East Asia<br />
and the Pacific also concluded its first activity in Indonesia for the assessment of the creditworthiness of<br />
four major regional cities.<br />
The technical assistance granted in FY2012 fits within the approved work program. We include herein the<br />
FY2012 portfolio reports (core and non-core trust funds) and a list of activities approved in FY2012<br />
organized as per PPIAF’s work program.<br />
In Q1-Q3 FY2012, we approved the following total grant amounts per DAC status: