Donor Agency Engagement
Multilateral agencies and development partners always play a catalytic role in promoting PPP in emerging economies. In countries like India, Malaysia etc. development partners provided significant support during the initial development of the PPP concept through both lending and technical assistance. In Bangladesh, the World Bank was actively involved in promoting PPP in the country, initially with the PSIDP program where IIFC and IDCOL was created under Ministry of Finance, and later PSDSP and IPFF project which were adopted for providing technical assistance and on-lending support to PPP project. The ADB provided significant support at the relaunch of the new PPP program through a technical assistance grants, While the World Bank IPFF program has continued to support the PPP Authority activities since 2011.
| The PPP Authority took the initiative for large scale donor agency engagement, especially with the agencies which have PPP experience and interest, in order to create greater awareness of the developments in PPP and to show broader perspectives, strategy and needs of the PPP Programme. It has engaged with the WB, ADB, IFC, JICA, IDB, DFID, UNCDF and some other agencies for their increased support and assistance, and conducts regular update meetings and discussions with these and other donor and multilateral agencies. As a result, it has received significant commitment in terms of technical assistance for PPP advisory support and lending support. |
Fig 4: Donor Agencies |
