International PPP standards to help implement the post 2015 UN - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• 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:

• 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
• f $)
• 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):

• 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
• 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
• Our Goal:
• to elaborate 20 to 30 standards in 2-3 years
• 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
• Other standards to be started in 2015:
• Roads
• Renewable energy
• Rail
• Airports
• Health projects

• Will the UN standards be taken seriously

by Governments?

• SGDs are universal: they apply to ALL Governments

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:
• Improving Transparency
• Removing barriers

stopping the Infrastructure Programme

• 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
• riented programme
• to improve delivery,

public acceptance

• and transparency in PPP.

• Thank you!
• Geoffrey Hamilton ( UNECE)
• geoffrey.hamilton@unece.org