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PUBLIC-PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORY FACILITY
REGIONAL UPDATE
PPIAF’S WORK IN SOUTH ASIA
April 2012
South Asia—home to 1.5 billion people with over one billion living on less than $2 per
day—has the largest global concentration of poor people. Since inception PPIAF and
its Sub-National Technical Assistance (SNTA) program have provided $21,340,924 in
funding to 124 activities in the South Asia Region, representing 10% of PPIAF’s total
portfolio, including SNTA. India dominates the South Asia portfolio with 54 activities
worth $8,918,541 approved since inception. The next most frequent recipient of PPIAF
funding has been Pakistan with 12 activities, followed by Sri Lanka with 9. Multi-sector
activities represent 44% or $9,596,218 of PPIAF’s portfolio in the region, followed by
22% in water and 13% in energy. This South Asia total also incorporates $1,627,850 in
funding to six SNTA activities since the start of that program in 2007—five in India and
one in Nepal.
In fi scal 2012, PPIAF has successfully rebalanced its South Asia portfolio to support the development
of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in countries other than India in the region, particularly
in the most lagging countries. PPIAF approved two activities in Bhutan, two in Sri Lanka, one in
the Maldives, one in Nepal, and one in India.
PPIAF has continued to support the development of strong PPP policies, programs, and pipelines
across South Asia. In Bhutan, PPIAF approved an activity with the Ministry of Information and
Communications to develop a strategic policy roadmap to guide the development of Bhutan’s
telecommunications sector on the introduction of competition, divestment by the existing operators,
and government transformation agenda to use the sector for cost-effective service delivery.
In the Maldives, PPIAF provided management contract support to Malé City Council to structure
and implement a viable tariff structure for waste management services, develop a mechanism for
tariff collection, develop an information system to maintain user data, and monitor the performance
of the concessionaire. In India, PPIAF is providing assistance to the Department of Economic
Affairs in the Ministry of Finance with the preparation of a national PPP policy statement, to serve
as guidance to the states as well as to central ministries as they pursue PPPs in the provision of
infrastructure. In Sri Lanka, PPIAF approved an activity to develop the capacity of the Ministry of
Economic Development and selected Provincial and Local Governments through a series of local
workshops. This activity will contribute to identify a list of potential local infrastructure projects
that could be implemented under a PPP model in the future.