Building capacities for PPPs Clive Harris Manager, Public-Private Partnerships

1. Building capacities for PPPs Clive Harris Manager, Public-Private Partnerships World Bank Institute

2. The World Bank is stepping up efforts to build capacities for PPPs World Bank Institute has PPPs as one of six focus themes • 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

3. A new vision for WBI • 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 WBI as connector of global knowledge networks

4. 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

5. WBI is developing a broad program of capacity building for PPPs Practitioner networks • 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

6. 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

7. Thank You For contact: charris@worldbank.org