As of April 2012 when the PPP contract was signed, the Philippines central government was ambitious in promoting privately financed projects to improve the country's infrastructure. The PPP unit, known as the "PPP Center", was formed by the central government to promote and drive the development of PPP projects in the Philippines. It champions the country's PPP program and aims to create an enabling environment for private investment in local infrastructure projects. In addition to enabling and promoting infrastructure investment, the PPP Center advocates policy reforms to improve the legal and regulatory frameworks governing PPPs in order to de-risk projects such as the Daang Hari-SLEX Link Road project.