• International PPP standards to help implement the post 2015 UN

• International PPP standards to help
implement the post 2015 UN
•Development Agenda
•Geoffrey Hamilton
•UNECE
•Brasilia, Brazil
•27 April 2015
•Outline
•PPP : the way forward for Infrastructure
•CHALLENGES to achieve the SDGs
•MANDATE
•PERSPECTIVE
•ACTIONS
•MOVING FORWARD
•PPP: The way forward for Infrastructure
•Finance
•Efficiency
•Scalability
•Sustainable Development
•CHALLENGES to achieve the SDGs
•Post UN Development Agenda will set
extremely ambitious targets, radically
increasing access to essential services:
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Energy for all
Clean and safe drinking water
Resilient and strong infrastructure
Human well being (health, education)
Internet for all
......others
•CHALLENGES to achieve the SDGs cont’d
•Enormous investment required (trillions
of $)
•Lack of public sector skills
•Uncertain legal and regulatory
frameworks
•Need for the private sector be a partner
to make the SDGs achievable
•Lack of understanding by the business
community
•Sustainable Development Goals
•Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
•Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
at all ages.
•Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education
and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
•Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women
and girls.
•Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all.
•Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable
and modern energy for all.
•Sustainable Development Goals cont’d
•Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, full and productive employment and
decent work for all.
•Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive
and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
•Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
•Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive,
safe, resilient and sustainable.
•Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and
revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development.
•MANDATE
•UNECE International PPP Centre of
Excellence (2012):
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•Collecting international PPP best practices
•Developing international standards
•Helping countries with voluntary
compliance
•Working as one UN (UNECE on behalf of UN
Regional Commissions & with UNDP)
•The process of developing standards
•The Specialist Centre addressing
the core challenge in PPP : on Law,
Policy and Institutions (France)
•Developing international PPP best
practices
•Supporting the development of PPP
international standards: Charter on
zero tolerance to corruption in PPP
procurement
•Assisting countries in implementation
•Specialist Centres
•PERSPECTIVE
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Are standards the way forward?
Too much guidance available? (Overkill?)
Evidence is available – but Governments
choose to ignore it
PPP choices present governments with
enormous dilemmas…
…even for the United Nations (e.g. using
PPP to renovate the Palais des Nations)
•ACTIONS
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•Our Goal:
to elaborate 20 to 30 standards in 2-3 years
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•First standards are focusing on governance issues in PPPs:
Charter on Zero Tolerance to Corruption
Certification of Government agencies
Policy frameworks for PPPs – Using PPPs for health
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•Other standards to be started in 2015:
Roads
Renewable energy
Rail
Airports
Health projects
•Will the UN standards be taken seriously
by Governments?
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SGDs are universal: they apply to ALL Governments
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Focal points within Governments have been set up in over 50 countries
Standards making process is led by the Governments
Each standard will be developed in 7 months rather than 7 years!
Open and transparent system including Public Review
Peer reviewed by Business Advisory Board and key stakeholders e.g. World Bank
•Will they achieve their goals?
•Can we develop high impact, high quality PPP investments ?
‘’Luz para todos’’ project
Bringing the Governments back to PPP
•UN and Brazil –
•Building on Success
•Challenges:
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•Improving Transparency
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•Removing barriers
stopping the Infrastructure
Programme
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•A Charter to Zero
Tolerance to Corruption in
PPP
•UN and Brazil –
•Building on Success cont’d
•Join the
•UNECE PPP Project
Teams
•Renewable Energy
•Water and Sanitation
•Transport Infrastructure
•Sustainable Cities
•Procurement
•You are leading the way …
•International Specialist Centre on:
•Empowering Women
•And become a world leader in SDG 5
•UN and Brazil –
•Building on Success cont’d
•Visit of the UNECE PPP
Business Advisory Board
(BAB) to Brazil,
•to discuss an action
oriented programme
•to improve delivery,
public acceptance
•and transparency in PPP.
•Thank you!
•Geoffrey Hamilton ( UNECE)
•[email protected]