PPPUE: Tools for pro-poor municipal PPP

Dear Colleague,

Thank you for your interest in the UNDP Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment programme. I am pleased to present the toolkit which has been produced by the PPPUE programme to develop capacity for pro poor PPP at the municipal level.
PPPUE is the global facility that developing countries use to obtain support in their efforts to define, promote and implement Public Private Partnerships to reduce poverty by increasing the access of the urban poor to basic services. The programme offers a flexible portfolio of demand driven services built on the basis of a strong partner network and results at the country level.
The rationale underlining PPPUE’s services is to help develop a conducive environment for partnerships and to build adequate capacity for local partners to bring all stakeholders into the development process and improve the access by disadvantaged communities to basic services. The goal is to facilitate the creation of a constructive environment with respect to reform; one which will allow community organisations and other civil society groups to advocate for their needs and preferences and contribute their skills and capacity through sustainable partnerships with governments and the private sector.

The Tools for Pro Poor PPP at the local level are aimed at members of local level government, business and community organisations interested in an innovative approach to the problems of service delivery, especially to the poor. The tools have been developed through a participatory process involving PPPUE’s programmes and projects in 14 countries and more than 50 municipalities around the world ensuring that they are applicable and useful globally but able to be localised rapidly. We hope that they are beneficial to you in your efforts to support tripartite partnerships and will welcome any comments you may have.

Should you have any queries regarding the programme or the toolkit the PPPUE Management Unit will be delighted to provide you with any additional information you require. Please feel free to e-mail <pppue@undp.org>.

Regards
Maleye Diop
PPPUE Programme Manager

Acknowledgements

UNDP gratefully acknowledges the many different people who have willingly contributed their knowledge, opinions and time to the development of this work.
We want this toolkit to be used as a working book rather than an encyclopaedic reference for occasional use. The structure, design and content of this toolkit are an outcome of a long consultative process with potential users. It took many workshops, reviews, interviews, discussions and meetings to come up with the structure of this toolkit. The toolkit content and structure is designed to ensure that the tools were useable globally so there are lots of people to thank. It is very difficult to provide an exhaustive list, but the following is an indicative list of organizations and/ or people who have provided support:

Dr. M.Sohail (WEDC, Loughborough University for overall management, authoring and editorship and Ms Olena Maslyukivska (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine) for assistance and authoring certain tools.

Professor Bradford Gentry (Yale University) for sharing ideas on the structure and feedback.

Janelle Plummer (Water and sanitation programme) for development of initial ideas and tools.

Sue Coates, Margaret Ince and other WEDC staff for facilitating workshops and providing comments.

We are also grateful to the external reviewers and potential users who have commented on the basis of use of this toolkit, particularly the following:

Maleye Diop, Programme Manager, UNDP/BDP/PPPUE,
Jenny Tough, PPP Policy Specialist, UNDP/BDP/PPPUE, and
Tsutomu Nishimura, PPPUE Associate Specialist, UNDP/BDP/PPPUE

Deo Ndimo, PPPUE National Programme Manager, Living Earth Uganda and
Elizabeth Kharono, PPPUE Programme Coordinator, Living Earth Uganda

Erik Bryld, Urban Development Officer, UNDP Nepal and
Purusottam Man Shrestha, PPPUE National Programme Manager, Nepal

May Hendarmini, PPPUE Project Manager, Jakarta Legislature, Indonesia

Tan Pek Leng, Director and
Lim Poh Im, PPPUE Project Coordinator, Socio-Economic & Environmental Research Institute, Malaysia

Ana Hardoy, PPPUE National Programme Manager, IIED-AL, Argentina

Kwame Asubonteng, PPPUE National Programme Coordinator, Ministry of Regional Local Government and Housing, Namibia

Sidi Aly Ould Moulaye Zeine and
Mourad Tourad, PPPUE Implementing Partners, Tenmiya, Mauritania

Helena Mutemba, Programme Officer, UNDP Mozambique and
Maria Chuma, PPPUE Project Coordinator, Care Mozambique

Raúl Tolmos, Programme Officer, UNDP Peru

Natalia Olofinskaya, Programme Officer, UNDP Russia

Thanks to Ms Jane Lanigan for proof reading.

Special thanks to the people from the low-income settlements in the various case locations who have contributed to the research and have provided their perspectives on the issues. We feel greatly indebted to them.

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How to use the toolkit?

This web-site is the on-line version of a Toolkit for municipal managers developed by the "UNDP Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment Programme". In its original form, it comes as a binder with loose modules to give the user the choice where to step in the PPP process.

In this Web-version, the right-hand navigation gives access to the particular modules. Clicking on a module's title is possible from every point of the toolkit and takes you to the certain start-page. From this page, the left-hand navigation will show the actual chapters of the module.

To distinguish the different steps of a PPP process, the modules are marked with certain colours:

Before PPPs (Modules 01 and 02): yellow
Preparation Stage (Modules 03 and 04): blue
PPP Development (Modules 05-15): orange
Implementation and Monitoring Stage (Modules 16-21): green

The toolkit is not intended to be a final account version of how to plan, develop, implement and regulate PPPs. The vision for the toolkit can be encapsulated in the following keynotes:

◊ Synthesis of supply and demand of information;
◊ Participatory development:
◊ Working document;
◊ Composite;
◊ Policy and practice;
◊ General and specific approaches;
◊ Leaving space for future modifications;
◊ Modular structure;
◊ User friendly;
◊ Facility to consult at different stages and for different scale of PPPs

It is intended for the following target audiences (please remember that it is not an exhaustive list, only a guide):

◊ Elected members
◊ Municipal representatives and officials
◊ Government officials
◊ Municipal workers
◊ Private operators including Small and Mediuls Enterprises
◊ Professionals
◊ Training institutions
◊ Financial institutions
◊ Donors
◊ NGOs

Attached at the binders jacket is a "road map" for the toolkit. The right-hand navigation frame reflects the sequence of modules as shown in the roadmap.
You do not have to follow the sequence proposed there – this is only one set. You can enter into the toolkit at any point depending on what stage of PPPs are you in and your interest.
Identify your interests and stages and select the relevant tool. You do not have to read the whole document in the order proposed to get what you want – check in and out.

If you observe any problems of technical nature, please feel free to send the producer of the material an e-mail: <info@margraf-verlag.de>

Imprint information

Author/Editor:
Dr. M. Sohail Khan, WEDC, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
with assistance of Olena Maslyukivska (University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)

Published by
Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE), Capacity Development Group, Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 304 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA

© 2004 UNDP [April 2004]
The views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations or UNDP.
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