Countries are increasingly focused on closing infrastructure gaps in energy, transport, water, and telecommunications, essential for enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and improving access to services and resilience to natural hazards. However, projects often face challenges like time delays, cost overruns, and integrity issues. planning and delivery to ensure projects are efficient, transparent, resilient and aligned with value-for-money principles. Building on the OECD Recommendations on the Governance of Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), the session will highlight best practices for enhancing institutional frameworks, pursuing fit-for-purpose infrastructure buyers, and fostering investor confidence. Given current fiscal and capacity constraints, attracting and sustaining private investment is increasingly essential, but there are also limits to what private participation can achieve and it is important to determine when and how private engagement can take place vis-à-vis alternative public infrastructure delivery and operation governance models.
The session will examine the critical governance conditions to consider in determining delivery models and how to increase the capacities of infrastructure buyers to manage private participation in infrastructure solutions and alternative public infrastructure delivery and operation models, while also reflecting on lessons learned from past PPP and concession experiences in the region.
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