The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center and World Bank-Water and Sanitation Program (WB-WSP) launched PPP knowledge toolkits for local government units (LGUs) and water districts (WDs) in pursuing PPP option for water and sanitation sector.
The toolkits provide standardized set of guidelines and templates to facilitate and assist implementing agencies, particularly WDs and LGUs in structuring PPP projects and in going through the PPP procurement process.
The PPP toolkits presented include a guide to business case analysis; model terms of reference for water source assessment, feasibility studies and transaction advisory services; pre-qualification requirements and instruction to bidders; contract management checklist; and generic preferred risk allocation matrix for a water supply project.
The development of the toolkits and its launching are aligned with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) jointly initiated by the PPP Center and WB-WSP in September 2015 enjoining the Local Water Utilities Authority (LWUA), National Water Resource Board (NWRB), Philippine Association of Water Districts (PAWD), and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to harmonize and reconcile their respective interventions to LGUs and WDs in the pursuit of PPPs.
“The water and sanitation sector is a major local development area where PPPs can prove to be viable. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program as well as the cooperation of the sector’s key institutions. This will surely facilitate the necessary build up of PPP capacities within WDs and LGUs,” said PPP Center Deputy Executive Director Eleazar E. Ricote.
“This is consistent with Center’s holistic PPP Program approach covering project development and structuring along with PPP capacity building as well as policy and process enhancements,” he added, referring to the preparation of a PPP policy instrument for WDs and LGUs covering of their PPP options and reconciling various legal frameworks governing their approvals, procurement and implementation.
Currently, the PPP Center provides technical assistance to the LGU of Baggao, Cagayan in the competitive PPP bidding of its P84 million Water Supply Project.
