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PPP Center provides various capacity building
programs for local government institutions in
terms of understanding the concept of PPPs, how
to structure, develop and prepare PPP projects,
and how to implement and monitor PPP projects.
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Encourage market development: Opening
markets means that national governments delegate
responsibility to provide public service provision
to local governments who in turn seek support
from the private sector to complement their own
skills. In Senegal, the government structured the
market by creating a national WSS rural asset
holding company, or OFOR. OFOR clustered the
1,500 rural piped schemes of the country into five
service areas that are then tendered out to private
operators. Since 2015, SEOH (a private operator)
is providing safe drinking water to 400,000 people
in the areas of Notto Diosmone Palmarin and
Gorom Lampsar.

About the Author
Mr. Fadel Ndaw, a Water & Sanitation
Engineer, is best known for his role as the
coordinator in Senegal of the urban water
sector reform and the water Millennium
Development Goals program (PEPAM),
which he managed for over 15 years (19962011). He then joined the African Water
Association of Utilities as coordinator of the Water Operators
Partnership (WOP) Africa, a program based in Johannesburg.
Fadel joined the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) in
Africa in July 2012 as a Senior Regional Water and Sanitation
Specialist based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and is
coordinating WSP Africa’s work on improving access to water
supply services in rural areas and small towns with a particular
emphasis on the Domestic Private Sector Participation. He
has recently completed a WSP study examining the impact of
the use of ICTs in the management of water and sanitation
sector in African countries.

Mobilize domestic financing: Develop action
plans aimed at the local financial institutions to
help them understand the WSS business and offer
financial products suitable for the WSS sector. In
Benin, local commercial banks have committed
to support the water sector by providing debt,
equity, and various financing instruments to the
private operators in small towns to build new water
connections. In the Philippines, the most common
and preferred type of partnering is Joint Ventures,
for which private operators bring private equities
and loans.

About IFC

About WSP

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest
global development institution focused exclusively on
the private sector. We help developing countries achieve
sustainable growth by financing investment, mobilizing
capital in international financial markets, and providing
advisory services to businesses and governments. For more
information, visit: www.ifc.org and www.ifc.org/ssawa.

The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is a multi-donor
partnership administered by the World Bank to support
poor people in obtaining affordable, safe, and sustainable
access to water and sanitation services. WSP provides
technical assistance, facilitates knowledge exchange, and
promotes evidence-based advancements in sector dialogue.
For more information, visit: www.wsp.org.

IFC - CBA Building, 4th Floor | Upper Hill, Mara/Ragati Road
Nairobi, Kenya, P.O. Box 30577-00100
Contact: Will Davies | [e-mail] | [phone]
World Bank - Water and Sanitation Program | Hill Park Towers, Upper Hill Road
Nairobi, Kenya, P.O Box 30577
Contact: Yolande Coombes | [e-mail] | [phone]
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