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The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway modernisation project is the first cross-border electrified railway in Africa

The N4 Toll Route is a brownfield toll road concession of 630 kilometres running from Pretoria, South Africa?s administrative capital, to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique and a deep-sea port on the Indian Ocean.

The Øresund Fixed Link (the Link) is a combined bridge and tunnel link across the Øresund Sound (the Sound) between Denmark and Sweden.

The Channel Tunnel is a roughly 50 kilometre-long rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in England, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

The Coral Sea Cable System (CS2) is a 4700 kilometre-long fibre optic submarine telecommunications cable that links both Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands to the major East Coast Internet Hub in Sydney, Australia.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is a land border crossing between Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan in the United States (US).

The Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam (the Dam) is located on the Paraná River on the border between Brazil and Paraguay

The Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) was created in 2012 to provide focus and leadership to build a pipeline of executable public-private partnership projects to meet Chicago’s infrastructure needs, drive economic development, and create jobs.

Last week, the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) hosted a webinar on “Building Strong PPP Institution in Developing Countries”. This webinar followed a global review undertaken by PPIAF to better understand the drivers of success in public-private partnership (PPP) programs. This webinar focuses on the role of contract management in PPPs.

Last month, Jane Jamieson, the Program Manager for the Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership and the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), along with Khafi Weekes, Climate Infrastructure Specialist at PPIAF, and Helen Gall, Monitoring and Evaluation ETC at QII, participated in the Understanding Risk Global Forum in Himeji, Japan. Initiated in 2010, this year’s Forum was the largest yet, attracting over 1,700 Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) experts and practitioners from across the globe. PPIAF and QII had a strong showing at the Forum, participating in five events, including three plenaries and two workshops.

The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) held its Partnership Council Meeting in Vienna, Austria this June. This meeting brought together PPIAF’s esteemed donors and welcomed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the newest donor to PPIAF with their contribution that has supported the integration of the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) into the PPIAF family. Over the two days, PPIAF engaged in a packed agenda where donors expressed appreciation for the impactful and relevant programs PPIAF delivers.

The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) in collaboration with the Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF), Egyptian Ministry of Finance, African Development Bank (AfDB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank and the World Association of PPP Units and Professionals (WAPPP) will be hosting a series of webinars to provide valuable insights into PPPs.

This event will focus on fostering an enabling environment for optimizing pooled investment vehicles in attracting private financing for climate and infrastructure projects, highlighting successful models and best practices.

Banks are leaders in structuring and financing private investment in new projects, however recent banking regulations discourage them from prioritising infrastructure