CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Role of Public-Private Partnerships -- Scope of the Guide -- Limits to the Guide -- 2. DEFINING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS -- Privatization and Management Contracts -- Types of Public-Private Partnerships -- 3. SETTING THE FRAMEWORK -- Policy Rationale -- Legal Framework -- Investment Framework -- Operating Framework -- Summary -- 4. SELECTING PROJECTS -- Project Scope and Requirements -- Expressing Projects in Terms of Outputs -- Can the Project Be Delivered as a Public-Private Partnership? -- Value for Money -- Initial Market Assessment -- Lessons from Private Sector Engagement in Projects in Africa -- 5. PREPARING PROJECTS FOR MARKET -- Management of the Process -- Funding for Project Preparation -- Unsolicited Proposals -- Project Assessment -- 6. PROJECT ADVISERS -- Role of Advisers -- When to Use Advisers -- Appointment of Advisers -- Role of Public-Private Partnership Units -- Management of Advisers -- 7. MANAGING THE INTERFACE WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- Preparation for Market Sounding -- Before the Launch -- Perception of the Project -- Role of Development Finance Institutions, Regional Investors, and Donors -- Transition to the Procurement Phase -- 8. MANAGING PROCUREMENT -- Outcome of the Procurement Phase -- Role of Advisers -- Role of Development Finance Institutions -- Bid Stages -- Project Launch -- Prequalification -- Request for Proposals -- Preferred Bidder and Financial Close -- 9. AFTER SIGNING -- APPENDIX A. World Bank/PPIAF Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database -- APPENDIX B. Sample Extract of a Risk Management Register for Managing the Public-Private Partnership Project Process -- APPENDIX C. Public-Private Partnership Web Sites -- APPENDIX D. Profiles of Five African Public-Private Partnership Projects.

Songas Processing Plant in Tanzania -- Maputo Port in Mozambique -- Skikda Desalination Plant in Algeria -- Lesotho National Referral Hospital -- Water and Electricity Services Provision in Gabon -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- BOX 5.1 Common Problems in Project Governance -- BOX 5.2 Common Mistakes in Project Preparation -- BOX 7.1 Top 10 Tips for a Successful Market-Sounding Exercise -- BOX 7.2 Major Concerns of Contractors and Investors -- BOX 7.3 Major Concerns of Project Lenders -- BOX 8.1 Project Information Memorandum -- BOX 8.2 Bidders' Conference -- BOX 8.3 Summary of a Model Request for Qualification for Public-Private Partnership Projects, Government of India -- BOX 9.1 Tips on Contract Management -- FIGURE 1.1 Number and Value of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects, by Region, 1996-2006 -- FIGURE 1.2 Key Phases of the Public-Private Partnership Project Process -- FIGURE 4.1 Stages of Project Selection -- FIGURE 4.2 Elements of a Risk Management Plan -- FIGURE 4.3 Typical Contractual Structure of a Public-Private Partnership -- FIGURE 4.4 Number of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects in Africa, by Sector and Type of Contract, 1996-2006 -- FIGURE 4.5 Number of Transport Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa in World Bank PPI Database, by Sector, 1996-2007 -- FIGURE 5.1 Project Preparation Process -- FIGURE 5.2 Outline of a Structure of Project Governance -- FIGURE 8.1 Outline of the Procurement Process -- FIGURE 8.2 Outline of the Prequalification Phase -- FIGURE 8.3 Outline of the Request-for-Proposals and Financial Close Phases -- FIGURE 9.1 Structure of Contract Management -- TABLE 4.1 An Example of Output Specifications for an Accommodation Public-Private Partnership -- TABLE 6.1 Role of External Advisers -- TABLE 7.1. Checklist before Launching the Procurement Phase.