• 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 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): • • 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 • You are leading the way … • International Specialist Centre on: • UNECE PPP Project • Empowering Women Teams • And become a world leader in SDG 5 • Renewable Energy • Water and Sanitation • Transport Infrastructure • Sustainable Cities • Procurement
• 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) • geoffrey.hamilton@unece.org
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