1. Promoting People-first Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
for the Belt and Road Initiative and
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

2. A successful high-road
Contents
A successful high-road
Actions / Strategies
Concept for Projects
Goals and Objectives
Partners

3. Partners Implementing Partners Financing Partners: Promoting Partners:
The Project will be carried out between the UNECE and NDRC along with international partners such as the AIIB, Global Infrastructure Hub of the G20, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum.
Promoting Partners:

4. Facilities connectivity Financial integration People-to-people bonds
Goals and Objectives
Close links between the B&R and the UN 2030 Development Agenda
Achieving a ‘win - win’ for all participating countries
B&R + SDGs = Mutual Success
B&R
Goals
Policy coordination
Facilities connectivity
Unimpeded trade
Financial integration
People-to-people bonds
The B&R calls for the building of “a community of shared future for mankind’ and is designed with some concrete priorities, such as on infrastructure, that have attracted a lot of attention from international stakeholders, including international organizations, development banks, governments, enterprises and investors, including those from private sector.
At the same time, the UN has announced the 2030 Development Agenda, a major programme of transformation with a huge price tag to close the infrastructure gap and achieve the UN SDGs.
Policy coordination
Facilities connectivity
Unimpeded trade
Financial integration
People-to-people bonds

5. Concept of Projects
Projects should be sustainable, transformative and People first!
Don’ts:
Do not strap countries with too much debt
Do not create “white elephants”, i.e. large projects that lead to nowhere and have no impact
Do not forget inequalities and poverty and women empowerment
Do not tolerate corruption
People-first Criteria:
Increase access to essential services and lessen social inequality and injustice;
Enhance resilience and more care with the environment;
Improve economic effectiveness;
Promote replicability and the development of further projects
Fully involve all stakeholders in the projects.
National Preparation
National Capacity Building
Legal, Institution
Projects
Design
Transformative
Poverty
Community
People to People
Project Facilitation
Due diligence
Project Start
Funding/AIIB, GIH…will take projects forward
Corruption: it reduces efficiency, favours business with corrupt connections rather than the more efficient ones.
The goal:
Drive competition levelling the play ground
International Common “Rules of the Game”
Level playing field, ZTC
Sustainable development,
Environment standards

6. National Small & Medium Sized Projects People-to-people Projects
Concept of Projects
Three types of project templates shall be developed and all linked up to the People-first criteria:
Renewable energy
National Small & Medium Sized Projects
All linked to
People-to-people Projects
International
Mega projects
Transit
Mega projects that cross borders will be needed and to link these to economic activities that can justify the business case for these projects
Small and Medium Sized Projects in local communities are necessary to create meaningful jobs, improve people’s standard of living and engage all the stakeholders.
People-to-people Projects are another type of project will contribute to both economic prosperity and cultural promotion.
Industry parks & Business centers
Culture

7. Small & Medium Sized Projects People-to-people Projects
Concept of Projects
Projects Linkage:
The mega projects have the potential to bring transformative impact, but they cannot be sustainable without linkage to other projects. Projects linkage allows for the required social and environmental impacts.
Concepts
Categories
International, Transformative infrastructure
Many B&R countries face challenges of getting products to global markets – because many are land locked or geographically isolated;
Connectivity is crucial for success but risks are high: different national standards, PPP laws, border delays at customs, etc. There is need to negotiate in cross border projects.
Mega projects
Country-wide, Local infrastructure with social dimensions Supplementing the large scale mega projects are national PPP programmes for transformation, environmental sustainability and overcoming differences between the ‘have’s’ and the ‘have not’s’;
Building technology, facilities for the communities to improve local life, realize smart cities and better communities.
Small & Medium Sized Projects
People and Culture
This category of PPPs is a necessary complement to the other projects, as they project People’s culture and ways of life against ‘too speedy and too much’ development. The first approach is to respect and integrate local culture, including religion, custom and history, into mega and small-medium projects, the second approach is to build actual projects that are promoting culture and tourism
People-to-people Projects
Projects can be people first only if taking into account the social dimensions
The mega projects could not be sustainable without the undertaking of smaller sized projects.
Social housing, connecting local community with markets
Country-wide social rebalancing
SM project: technology superiority, become really smart cities
Types of Projects:
balancing – local jobs.
Big/good companies are fully consulted with local communities in the process of design.
Projects linkage allows for the required social and environmental impacts.

8. Small & Medium Sized Projects People-to-people Projects
Concept of Projects
Possible core projects
Examples
categories
Transit (rail, roads, ports, pipelines);
Energy (gas, hydropower, wind and solar energy, renewable energy, such as biomass and waste to energy);
Communication (IT, internet super highway).
Mega projects
Smart Cities, Urban Rail Transit;
Road access, Internet connectivity; hospitals and schools;
Heating systems, renewable energy;
Social housing.
Small & Medium Sized Projects
Heritage sites, ‘Ancient Silk Road’ tourism;
Traditional Culture exhibition;
Trade fairs.
People-to-people Projects
The mega projects could not be sustainable without the undertaking of smaller sized projects.
Social housing, connecting local community with markets
Country-wide social rebalancing
SM project: technology superiority, become really smart cities
Types of Projects.
balancing – local jobs.
Big/good companies are fully consulted with local communities in the process of design.

9. Concept of Projects B&R + SDGs all successful, big picture.
“All Connected”
Ultimate goal:
linking economic, social activities along the infrastructures
“Making sure the project is right project that links through the economic potential and the region, and making sure as the project is built and operated, is operated to support the economic growth
“Another point back of that discipline, is around sustainability, more private sector come to me and saying, sustainability is becoming more their top 3 concerns on infrastructure.
“…making sure that the piece of infrastructure or building incorporates the needs of local people as well as provide that growth potential.”
B&R + SDGs all successful, big picture.
Source: Institute for Palestine Studies
Chris Heathcote, CEO, Global infrastructure Hub
UNECE International PPP Forum , 9 May 2017

10. PPP National Capacity Building A Facility to Develop Projects
Actions / Strategies
Three pillars: A multilateral strategic framework…
A 5 years plan
To create a multilateral framework
Develop 10 transformative projects
to inspire others
Advancing B&R
Success requires all Pillars to be working together !
Pillar 1
Policy Dialogue
Pillar 3
PPP National Capacity Building
Pillar 2
A Facility to Develop Projects
International
National
Mezzanine
Pillar 1 is the Policy Dialogue
Pillar 2 is the identification of transformative projects set out as project templates and leading to the creation of a Facility to Develop Projects
Pillar 3 is a comprehensive PPP National Capacity Building programme focusing on building the governments’ capacities to deliver the right projects for success.
1. A policy dialogue to improve cooperation among the participating countries;
2. A comprehensive PPP national capacity building programme; and
3. The identification of transformative projects that can be scaled up and replicated in other regions and countries (We will finish it in November 2017 to be shared shortly).

11. Actions / Strategies
…Supported by top-level advisory expert group on PPP and B&R,
Selected by knowledge, practice and project understanding
Having geographical representation and gender balance
Without any biased commercial interest in any projects evaluated
A comprehensive, and integrated approach to project development

12. Actions / Strategies
Risks and Actions
Peer review exert pressure on governments to perform.
Three pillars work as a process, targeting specific risks and challenges in different stages, to develop and implement the projects we highlighted.
RISKS
Lack of common ‘rules of the game’, No actions by governments
Projects still need feasibility study, etc. to overcome the final hurdle to bankability
Lack of national legal, institutional, regulatory and governance frameworks for PPPs
ACTIONS
Pillar 1 Policy Dialogue
Dialogues leading to consensus on standards, contracts, common legislation and common procurement systems
Pillar 2 A facility to develop projects
Performing feasibility studies and due diligence, Linking projects with the financial institutions
Pillar 3 PPP National Capacity Building
will lead to better laws, more effective institutions, better governance, and better projects

13. Actions / Strategies
The steps to be taken to develop the flagship projects:
This completes the ‘upstream’ work on the project – there then follows the ‘practice’ in the implementation phase, agreed in the policy dialogue 1
Gather together best practice models falling under each of the three categories 2
Produce projects templates based on UNECE best practices 3
A comparative legal and regulatory review document will be discussed by policy dialogue in order to remove the barriers to projects existing in national level (Pillar 1) 4
Projects are implemented the national PPP capacity building programme in countries (Pillar 3) 5
Advisory B&R expert group in the facilitation hub validates the projects, having reached the required standards 6
Due diligence, feasibility study final preparation for funding 7
Submit projects to the funding partners (AIIB, EBRD, World Bank, etc.)
The steps to be taken to develop the flagship projects:
Gather together best practice models following under each of the three categories: 2
Produce projects templates based on UNECE best practices – 2
Projects are also submitted to the policy review form for comments in order to remove policy, regulatory barriers in B&R countries [Peer Review]
Integrate selected projects templates into the national PPP capacity building in ten countries (Pillar 3)
Receive comments from the advisory B&R expert group on projects to assure achievements of the right standards (2)
Submit projects to the facilitation partners (AIIB, EBRD, World Bank, etc.)
For due diligence, feasibility study and eventual funding (2)
This complete the upstream work bringing forward the project development, principles, related to project, agreed in the policy dialogue.
A comparative legal and regulatory review document will be discussed through policy dialogue in order to remove the barriers to projects existing in national level.

14. A successful high-road
A multilateral framework via policy dialogue
A facilitation Hub for scaling up the funding
People first PPP projects to bring people a better life, protect our planet, and leave no one behind
Achieve the common goals of B&R and UN SDGs

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Contact
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Contact: Claudio Meza
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