Interregional Expert Group Meeting on Public-Private Partnerships
in Infrastructure Development
ESCAP secretariat in collaboration with the secretariats of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) organized an interregional expert group meeting at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok on 17-19 February 2009. The Meeting was organized as an activity of an interregional Development Account project on capacity building in public-private partnerships for infrastructure development financed from the United Nations Development Account.
Background materials
Presentations and Statements
- Opening Statements:
- Mr. Barry Cable, Director of Transport Division of the ESCAP (PDF)
- Ms. Marie Therese Guiebo, Economic Affairs Officer, NEPAD and Regional Integration Division, ECA (PDF)
- Mr. Geoffrey Hamiltion, Chief Cooperation and Partnerships Section, ECE
- How to meet the challenges in PPP development in the current financial and economic crisis - Mr. Noel A. Kintanar, Assistant Vice-President, Ayala Land Inc., Philippines (PDF)
- Country experience (PDF):
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji (not presented), India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Thailand and Viet Nam
- Capacity building for PPP development in ECE region - Mr. Anthony Pearce, Honorary Director General, International Road Federation (PDF)
- Streamlining the PPPs including standardization of processes and contracts:
- the experience of Bangladesh - Mr. Nazrul Islam, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Center (IIFC), Bangladesh (PDF)
- the experience of the Philippines - Ms. Janet Bautista, Business Development Officer, Bonifacio Technology Center, Manila, Philippines (PDF)
- the experience of Maharashtra, India - Mr. P.L. Bongirwar, Former Joint Managing Director, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd. (PDF)
- Domestic financing and special financing institutions for PPP projects - Mr. Cherian Thomas, Senior Director, Infrastructure Development Finance Co., Ltd., New Delhi, India (PDF), (TEXT)
- PPP development at the subnational and municipal levels - Mr. Jose Maria Palabrica, Director IV, BOT Centre, Philippines (PDF)
- Managing government liabilities arising from PPP development programmme - Mr. Kim Jungwook, Research Fellow, Public and Private Investment Management Center (PIMAC), Republic of Korea (PDF)
- PPP Implementation Process and Role of PPP Units:
- Mr. Bastary Pandji Indra, Director of Public Private Partnership Development, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Indonesia (PDF)
- Ms. Pauline Matthias, Executive Director (Finance) and Head of PPP Unit, Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka (PDF)
- Ms. Despina Tomadaki, Special Secretariat for PPPs, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Greece (PDF)
- Mr. Strover Maganedisa, Senior Project Advisor, PPP Unit: Business Development, National Treasury, South Africa (PDF)
- Mr. Adil Anwar, CEO, Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF), Pakistan (PDF)
- Mr. Arvind Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB), India (PDF)
- United Nations Development Account PPP Project Output - Ms. Marie Therese Guiebo, Ms. Meron Kinfemichael (African PPP Database), Mr. Geoffrey Hamilton (PDF) and Mr. John Moon (PDF)
- Interregional mechanism for networking - Mr. John Moon, Mr. Geoffrey Hamilton and Mr. Anthony Pearce (PDF)
- Regional cooperation for technical assistance, experience-sharing and capacity-building
- Mr. Batdelger Luuzan, PPP Policy Specialist, UNDP Public-Private Partnerships for Service Delivery (PDF)
- Ms. Bhavna Bhatia, Regional Program Leader for South and Central Asia, PPIAF (PDF)
- Mr. Vipul Bhagat, Manager, Infrastructure Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation, IFC (PDF)
- Mr. Raghubar Dayal, Senior Fellow, AITD- Mr. Fujio Ito, Senior Researcher, IDI (PDF)
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