Cross Border PPP and Infrastructure Finance Training Course

Participants can screen projects and compare conventional procurement with PPP delivery options.

• Problem definition using service gaps, demand evidence and asset constraints
• Strategic case tests within the five-case business case model
• Multi-criteria analysis for regional benefits, distributional effects and implementation feasibility
• Public Sector Comparator assumptions and limitations for PPP option appraisal
• Value-for-money drivers: lifecycle costing, risk transfer and service innovation
• Filtering unsuitable projects through affordability, complexity and market-interest tests

Participants can map the legal authorities and approvals required for a multi-jurisdiction PPP.

• PPP legislation, procurement law and sector regulation interactions
• Intergovernmental agreements allocating responsibilities for shared infrastructure assets
• Concession rights, land access and permitting across participating jurisdictions
• Harmonising technical standards, environmental requirements and operating rules
• Foreign investment approvals, ownership restrictions and repatriation provisions
• Dispute-resolution clauses using governing law, arbitration and enforcement mechanisms

Participants can interpret the principal financial components of a PPP project finance structure.

• Special purpose vehicle structure, contractual links and ring-fenced cash flows
• Revenue models: user charges, availability payments and hybrid mechanisms
• Debt service coverage ratio, loan life coverage ratio and reserve accounts
• Sources-and-uses statement covering construction costs, fees and contingencies
• Financial close conditions, lender due diligence and direct agreements
• Sensitivity testing for demand, cost overruns, interest rates and delays

Participants can develop a defensible risk allocation matrix for cross-border PPP projects.

• Risk register built from cause, event, consequence and control analysis
• Allocation principles: control, mitigation capacity, pricing and insurability
• Political risk covering expropriation, convertibility, breach and civil disturbance
• Foreign-exchange risk treatment through indexation, hedging and government support
• Interface risks between national networks, border facilities and shared operators
• Force majeure, change-in-law and relief-event contractual mechanisms

Participants can assess PPP affordability and identify material fiscal exposures.

• PFRAM framework for identifying direct liabilities and contingent liabilities
• Affordability analysis using medium-term expenditure ceilings and payment projections
• Government support instruments: guarantees, viability-gap funding and minimum-revenue commitments
• Budgeting availability payments through multi-year appropriations and commitment controls
• Quantifying contingent liabilities with scenario analysis and probability-weighted estimates
• Fiscal reporting, disclosure registers and parliamentary oversight requirements

Participants can prepare a procurement approach that supports competition, transparency and bankability.

• Market sounding protocols protecting confidentiality, fairness and competitive neutrality
• Prequalification criteria assessing technical capacity, finance and relevant experience
• Request for proposals with output specifications and measurable performance standards
• Bid evaluation methods: quality-and-cost, compliant bid and negotiated procedure
• Managing foreign bidder participation, consortium formation and local-content rules
• Procurement governance through approvals, audit trails and conflict-of-interest controls

Participants can match suitable financing and risk-mitigation instruments to project constraints.

• Multilateral development bank roles in preparation, lending and credit enhancement
• Blended-finance structures combining concessional funds, commercial debt and private equity
• Political risk insurance products for currency transfer, breach and expropriation
• Partial risk guarantees and partial credit guarantees compared
• Viability-gap funding design without distorting competition or risk transfer
• Aligning climate-finance eligibility with project design and reporting requirements

Participants can identify key PPP contract provisions and prepare for commercial negotiations.

• Project agreement schedules defining outputs, payment mechanisms and handback conditions
• Payment deductions linked to availability, performance failures and user-service standards
• Termination provisions covering default, force majeure and voluntary government action
• Step-in rights, lender remedies and substitution of the private partner
• Negotiation preparation using issue lists, mandates and concession boundaries
• Financial-close checklist covering conditions precedent, permits and financing documents

Participants can establish post-award controls and create an action plan for a priority project.

• Contract-management plan assigning authority, reporting cycles and escalation routes
• Performance monitoring through key performance indicators and independent verification
• Change-control procedures for scope variations, claims and refinancing proposals
• Managing stakeholder communication across governments, communities and service users
• Early-warning indicators for construction delay, revenue stress and operator underperformance
• Project action plan using milestones, owners, dependencies and decision gates