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Delmon, Jeffrey

Africa Finance and Private Sector, World Bank
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public-private partnerships; private finance for infrastructure; construction; long-term local currency finance; law
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Last updated: January 31, 2023
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Jeff Delmon advises on private participation in infrastructure, from the transactional, financial and policy perspectives, with experience on projects across Asia, Africa and Europe in the transport, power, water and telecoms sectors.  Prior to joining the World Bank, Jeff spent 11 years in Paris and London advising on infrastructure and project finance in developed and developing countries at the law firms of Allen & Overy and Freshfields, including a secondment to the UK Department for International Development.  He has lectured for a variety of graduate programs, including Oxford, Georgetown, King’s College London and the National University of Singapore. His recent books include, Public Private Partnership Projects in Infrastructure: A practical guide for policy makers (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and in French and Russian (PPIAF, 2010); Delmon and Rigby-Delmon eds., International Project Finance and PPP: A legal guide to key growth markets (Kluwer International 2012), and Private Sector Investment in Infrastructure: Project finance, PPP projects and risk (2ed Kluwer and World Bank 2009).

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    Creating a Framework for Public-Private Partnership Programs: A Practical Guide for Decision-makers
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015) Delmon, Jeffrey
    Public private partnerships (PPP) represent an approach to procuring infrastructure services that is radically different from traditional public procurement. It moves beyond the client-supplier relationship when government hires private companies to supply assets or a service. PPP is a partnership between public and private to achieve a solution, to deliver an infrastructure service over the long term. It combines the strength of the public sector’s mandate to deliver services and its role as regulator and coordinator of public functions with the private sector’s focus on profitability and therefore commercial efficiency. There is a tendency to approach reform of the PPP framework as a single action, generally delivered by external consultants in one massive report, with a few workshops and training sessions (in an effort to deliver the guidance in a more digestible form). Achieving a viable PPP framework involves a complex series of parallel, iterative initiatives, and efforts. It involves updating the different elements of the PPP framework discussed in this text as each new lesson is learned from PPP transactions as they are implemented and national best practice as it develops. Section one introduces the framework required to support PPP and provides a summary of the text. Sections two to six describes five key elements of the PPP framework and what the government can do to improve them.
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    Understanding Options for Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure : Sorting Out the Forest from the Trees--BOT, DBFO, DCMF, Concession, Lease . . .
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2010-01) Delmon, Jeffrey
    This paper provides a methodology for categorizing public-private partnerships in infrastructure, based on the following key characteristics: whether the project involves new or existing business, the nature of the private sector s construction obligations, the need for the private sector to mobilize significant private funding ab initio, the nature of the private sector s service delivery obligations, and the source of the project revenue stream. The purpose of this methodology is to facilitate mapping, referencing, cross-comparison, analytical studies, and descriptions of public-private partnerships in infrastructure projects with similar key characteristics across sector, commercial, regional, and geopolitical lines. The methodology is tested against 15 case studies representing different infrastructure sectors, regional applications, and commercial approaches to public-private partnerships.