Working with and for Clients for wider benefits to infrastructure policy and practice
The EBRD is active in infrastructure policy dialogue to deliver the policy changes necessary to move the sector closer to the market economy and support projects which are not feasible in the current environment.
Policy initiatives also allow clients to finance projects based on advanced market-oriented structures.
To realise the EBRD’s policy initiatives, IPPF’s Policy Dialogue Window specifically aims to deepen policy knowledge and the dissemination of best international practice in the following areas:
IPPF’s Policy Dialogue Window incorporates a range of activities such as seminars, discussions and participation feedback based on papers.
Use of funds for Policy Dialogue Window
By the end of the second half of 2019, IPPF financed 17 policy seminars (as below) in different locations and several hundred key officials and decision makers of the governments or municipalities, municipal or state-owned infrastructure enterprises and EBRD client companies participated from the EBRD’s countries of operations.
List of the policy seminars
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No. |
Activity |
Year |
Title |
Theme/Seminar purpose |
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1 |
Seminar in Istanbul & London Policy paper |
2015 |
Facilities Management PPP Infrastructure |
Discuss rationale of using private sector and best practice to incorporate the private sector into facilities management (healthcare, school, other public building sectors). |
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2 |
Seminar in London Policy paper |
2016 |
Performance-based Road Maintenance Contract |
Performance-based contract induces transition of road maintenance norms from ‘input-based’ to ‘output-based’ but faces challenges in the countries of operations. |
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3 |
Seminar in Bucharest |
2016 |
Performance-based contract in water sector |
Discuss potential benefits from performance-based contracts and challenges in the Romanian water sector being reformed |
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4 |
Seminar in Bucharest, Almaty Policy paper |
2016 |
Challenges and opportunities in district heating |
Seek methods to achieve full cost recovery in district heating – a sector which requires heavy capital expenditure vs. limited ability of users to fully amortise such costs. |
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5 |
Seminar in London Policy paper |
2016 |
Automated fare collection (AFC) contractual model |
AFC systems are planned as a means of improving public transport’s overall efficiency and regulation - Finding the best level of private sector participation in the road sector. |
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6 |
Seminar in London |
2017 |
Discuss common issues for optimal urban transportation and legislative challenges of urban bus operations with visit to TfL |
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7 |
Seminar in London |
2017 |
Discuss principles, preconditions and drivers of an enabling environment for private sector participation (PSP) for sustainable waste management and set steps and actions for PSP realisations |
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8 |
Seminar in Rotterdam |
2017 |
Role of Inland Waterway Transport |
Discuss steps for the market development and mobilisation of private sector investments to achieve the sector modernisation and create a modal shift to sustainable transportation mode. |
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9 |
Seminar in London |
2017 |
Discuss the appropriate asset management and seek sustainable water infrastructure |
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10 |
Seminar in London |
2017 |
Competitive logistics and port development |
Discuss PPPs in the logistics and port sectors and issues in the regulatory frameworks |
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11 |
Seminar in Astana |
2018 |
Commercialising the utilities sector in Kazakhstan |
Highlighting challenges and lessons in public utilities and institutional and regulatory environment, tariff reform is recommended as a tool for commercialising the sector. |
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12 |
Seminar in Vilnius |
2018 |
Demand side measures in district heating |
Seek the way to introduce individual metering in district heating to empower heat consumers to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and businesses with visit to the success case |
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13 |
Seminar in London |
2018 |
Disruptive Technology and Innovation in Transport |
Overview of the current state on innovation in transport solutions and opportunities for implementation of disruptive digital technologies across the developing world. |
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14 |
Review and preparation of seminar materials |
2018 |
Review and analysis of PPP pipelines of Tunisia |
As an upstream policy dialogue, IFC and the IPPF helped the Ministry of Development and Investment, and International Cooperation (MDICI) to produce the key materials (List of the PPP pipelines) for the International Forum on Public Private Partnerships in September 2018. The pipelines were reviewed and analysed against international PPP criteria. |
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15 |
Conference in Kiev |
September 2018 |
Infrastructure PPPs in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia - Sectoral Focus |
Identify and analyse the political, legal, institutional and market barriers to commercially viable infrastructure PPP projects. The seminar addressed challenges to the creation of a sustainable PPP unit in the governments /agencies. |
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16 |
Seminar in London | 2019 - 2020 |
Going electric – A pathway to zero-emission buses Переходим на электричество Путь к автобусам с нулевыми выбросами |
The policy paper– prepared in partnership with the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and with the support of TIL Consultants - summarises emerging good practice in electric bus - from battery electric to in motion charging trolleybus – and is intended to equip mobility practitioners and decision makers with the needed skills to plan, prepare and procure their electric bus systems. The paper builds from the policy seminar held at EBRD headquarters in March 2019 Going Electric- Solutions for Urban Bus and Trolleybus Systems, with over 100 participants from across industry, operators, public authorities and funding entities in the e-bus sector, as well as the Public Transport Fleet Renewal workshop, held during the GIZ sponsored Transport and Climate Change week, held in Berlin in March 2020.
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| 17 | Seminar in Sofia, Bulgaria | Source separation for recycling – moving towards a circular economy in waste management | Source separation for recycling – moving towards a circular economy in waste management | The seminar aimed to explore how to best promote source separation and increase recycling rates. It also provided the discussion and exchange of the experiences and solution for the institutional and legal setup and contractual arrangements for financing source-separation activities. |
