In the operative paragraphs of the Seoul Declaration and the ESCAP Resolution on its implementation, countries were invited or encouraged to undertake a number of activities, these included an invitation to countries to review and assess their:
(a) Public-Private Partnership, sectoral and other relevant policy frameworks and action plans for infrastructure development;
(b) PPP-Readiness to identify the key issues that governments need to address in order to promote PPPs in infrastructure development;
(c) Processes and procedures for implementing PPPs, including effective management over their whole life cycle;
(d) Legislative, regulatory and institutional environment for PPPs at the general and sectorial levels that may impede effective PPPs; and
(e) Capacity to implement PPPs and evaluate their impact on development.
The Declaration also encouraged countries to actively engage in regional cooperation initiatives including:
(a) Participation in regional networking arrangements;
(b) Development and delivery of educational and training programmes;
(c) Development and sharing of databases on PPP projects, statistics, laws, guidelines, model agreements, etc;
(d) Standardization of terminology, contracts, processes and procedures; and
(e) Provision of technical assistance.
In this respect, PPP Units and Programmes in countries were requested to develop a one to two page summary addressing the following six elements of the Seoul Declaration, relating to the two year period 2008-2009, namely:
A. Sectorial and other relevant policy frameworks and action plans adopted and/or implemented;
B. Key issues in PPPs that were identified (PPP-Readiness);
C. Assessments undertaken to improve the PPP process, and actions taken to address them;
D. Legislative, regulatory and institutional impediments identified, and acted upon,
E. Capacity building activities undertaken; and
F. Regional Cooperation activities initiated.
The elements A-E corresponded to the items (a)-(e) in the "invitation" above, and F corresponded to the items (a)-(e) in the "regional cooperation" above.
The following pages contain these summaries.