The Bank's non-financial value-added can have a substantial impact on the development of PPPs at both the national and individual project levels. The development and negotiation of PPP projects in a new market requires skills which are often not available to the Promoter. PPP Task Forces within key ministries can provide valuable support to Promoters. However, this support can only be offered once the task force has been able to build up its own experience and early-stage assistance will be limited. Similarly, unless private-sector staff are seconded-in, a PPP Task Force may lack private-sector skills and experience. To a certain extent, this gap can be filled by employing outside advisers, e.g. on financial and legal matters, but most of the Promoters said that they would welcome a more significant role for the EIB as a mentor providing institutional support in the development of their PPP policies and individual projects. This does not mean displacing private sector financial advisers, but there are areas in which the Bank might offer valuable advice, including: creating a PPP Taskforce, PPP framework legislation and standard terms/documentation, procurement procedures and bid evaluation, PSC and VfM, etc. The Bank could also provide support to Promoters in their relationships with financial and legal advisers. The EIB is already providing this kind of institutional support on an ad hoc basis but a more formal arrangement could have a greater impact, and be self-financing.