Making sense of Public–Private Partnerships Feel free to Twitter suggestions, ideas, remarks: #ppplab @africaworks2014 Ever worked in a PPPLab? Sustainable Water Fund (FDW) 1st call: 12 PPPs Allocated: € 38 million (€ 3,2 mio) Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Food Security Facility (FDOV) 1st call: 28 PPPs Allocated: 81 € million (€ 2,9 mio) PPPLab Food & Water: – Four year program to learn about and improve the PPP instrument – Directed at policy and practice – 4 roles: • • • • Sense making Action research: in depth studies Exchange and learning Policy advice Knowledge Agenda – 6 themes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Theories of change: how is social, business and public value created and combined? Business models, financial constructions and transition strategies Sustainability, scaling, ‘moving on’, replication and institutionalization Specific research themes: PM&E, financial inclusion, BoP service-delivery models, and the chain approach Partnership models, configurations, processes and success factors The ‘Dutch Approach’: profile, lessons and policy directions Portfolio analysis of FDW and FDOV: – Systematic scan of all PPPs (half way) – Four themes: 1. Partnerships building 2. Innovation 3. Business cases / financial structures 4. Moving on: ‘life after PPP’ Partnerships building: – Emerging partnerships vs partners who know each other well: starting up issues – Huge diversity in financial constructions – Private / NGO / knowledge institutes are leading; public role: financial – Operational collaboration between Northern business and partners in the field is challenging Innovation: – Business models and chain organisation – Technologies and products – Delivery models (to BoP) – Financing inclusive development – PPP instrument as an innovation – additionality? Business models: – Broad range of private entities – Very diverse combinations of public and private funding – High participation of in-country businesses – Dutch interests served: promoting technologies and services, supply, opening markets Moving on strategies: is there life after PPP? – Not very clear on independency after PPP funding – Little attention to graduation of financing strategies, institutionalization and replication approaches Ever worked in a PPPLab? Workshop: • 4 tables: – Table 1: Partnerships building – Table 2: Innovation – Table 3: Business models / financing – Table 4: Moving on: Life after PPP? • 3 rounds of each 20’ • Reflection 3 levels of discussion: – Round 1: Understanding What is it about? – Round 2: Deepening What does this mean? – Round 3: Recommendations What do you want PPPLab to do? 3 rounds: – Each round you move into a new level of analysis – Each round you will also move to a new table with a new theme – You will therefore have to build upon the ideas of the previous group at the table. Ever worked in a PPPLab? Reflection: – Four facilitators: wrap up – Dutch Ambassador in Rwanda: Leoni Cuelenaere – PPP Coordinator of MFA: Anno Galema Insight series: www.ppplab.org