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Last week we presented our final deliverables to the G20 Infrastructure Working Group at its fourth and final meeting under the Indonesian Presidency.

On 22 November 2018, the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) and the China Public Private Partnerships Centre (CPPPC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish and strengthen the collaborative partnership between the organisations.

The World Bank and the GI Hub announced the GI Hub will join The World Bank’s Infrastructure Practice Group as an associated trust fund to the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) . In connection with this shift, the Global Infrastructure Hub will cease to operate as a standalone not-for-profit organisation.

The Global Infrastructure Hub and the China Public-Private Partnerships Centre (CPPPC) have today launched a Mandarin translation of the GI Hub’s report on Allocating Risks in PPP Contracts.

The Global Infrastructure Hub recently launched its Project Pipeline, a dynamic online platform containing details on government infrastructure projects across the globe. The Pipeline was created by the GI Hub in response to market demand for an early stage global pipeline of projects.

Global Infrastructure Hub is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The memorandum reflects our organisations’ shared intentions to explore opportunities for cooperation and collaboration, and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of work programs through knowledge sharing, consultation and advice.

The GI Hub today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) to facilitate an information sharing agreement between the two organisations.

The GI Hub’s Bill Brummitt met today with China Public Private Partnerships Centre Deputy Director General Mr Han Bin and his team in Beijing. Under discussion was the deployment strategy for the Mandarin version of the GI Hub’s risk allocation matrices, as well as the GI Hub’s Project Pipeline, and other areas for co-operation.

GI Hub Chief Executive Officer Chris Heathcote spoke on developing bankable infrastructure projects at the Global Infrastructure Initiative 2017 in Singapore this month.

Welcome to the first edition in a series of updates that the GI Hub will provide in advance of each G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) meeting. As committed to in the GI Hub’s Strategic Plan 2019-22, and in response to requests made by members of the IWG, these updates will provide both a description of activities undertaken since the last IWG meeting and a preview of upcoming initiatives. For each of the GI Hub products discussed in the update, we will identify the relationship between the product and the workstreams in the IWG Terms of Reference. We hope that you will find these updates informative and, of course, we welcome any questions or feedback.

Global infrastructure needs and Public-Private Partnerships were discussed when the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Australia met the GI Hub today.

In light of the potential for public-private partnerships (PPP) to contribute to a reduction of the 1.2 trillion USD infrastructure investment needs of Brazil, the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) and Inter-American Development Bank have collaborated to make specialist risk allocation knowledge accessible to the public sector.