A highly interactive training course on

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Project Preparation

Course Schedules

Dubai

05-09 May 2025

$5,950

Dubai

21-25 Jul 2025

$5,950

Dubai

01-05 Dec 2025

$5,950

Training course overview

Understanding the complexities of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) is crucial for project professionals, as these schemes vary widely and require specific skills to manage stakeholder expectations and navigate organizational boundaries effectively. This Coventry Academy training course is tailored to professionals from diverse backgrounds, aiming to equip them with essential skills for successful PPP preparation. Daily topics guide participants through the journey from project identification and selection to conducting comprehensive feasibility studies. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on managing stakeholders, defining roles and responsibilities, addressing various issues, and evaluating and mitigating risks inherent in PPP projects. By mastering these elements, participants will gain the expertise needed to contribute effectively to the planning and execution of PPP initiatives, ensuring they can navigate challenges and maximize project outcomes.

What are the goals?

By attending this Coventry Academy training course you should achieve these goals:

How to Recognise the Various PPP Schemes
Understand the Impact and Contractual Issues
How to Determine Project Identification
How to Analyze the Correct Feasibility Study Required
How to Manage Stakeholder Expectations

Who is this training course for?

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals from Policy Makers to Technical and Financial Consultants, but will greatly benefit those professionals who have some experience with infrastructure projects and wish to improve their knowledge and decision-making capacity to enact policies related to PPPs. It will also be of great benefit for professionals in Sectors that include: energy & electricity, water & waste water, transportation (roads, airports, ports, and rail), telecommunications, education, health, and municipal services.

Course Outline

Day One: Project Pre-Feasibility Analysis

Key behaviours:

Perform a comprehensive Needs Analysis
Understand the different types of feasibility studies required for any PPP project
Distinguish between the needs and wants in the project scope
Interpret and identify social and environmental safeguards

Topics to be covered:

Needs and options analysis
Legal feasibility
Technical feasibility
Scoping social/environment safeguards analysis
Preliminary financial viability including expectations of required Government financial support

Day Two: Defining Public-Private Partnerships and Setting the Framework & Structure

Competency Description: It is essentially important that personnel involved in any PPP project understands the full scope and context of the various PPP schemes.

Key behaviours:

Appreciate the fundamental concepts of the PPP scheme
Understand the different types of PPP contracts
Know and understand the critical phases and levels of a PPP project
Appreciate the rationale behind market needs

Topics to be covered:

Rationale, aim and motivation for engaging PPP
Key phases of the PPP project process
The structure of the PPPs
Different types of PPPs
The four levels of preparation and implementation
Analyse the important factors for the project preparation process

Day Three: Key Decision Criteria to Identification of PPP Projects, PPP Screening & Cost Benefit Analysis

Competency Description: Many vital decisions have to be made and PPP project professionals must recognize and understand the various options in order to make the right decision for a sustainable and successful PPP project.

Key behaviours:

Appreciate Understanding and knowledge of investment models
Know how to select suitable PPP projects
Knowledge and insights of the different PPP models
Analysis of cost benefits
Decision making abilities giving value for money
Perform a basic project appraisal

Topics to be covered:

Public investment delivery model
Economies of scale and project grouping
Analysis of cost benefits of a PPP project
How to get value for money in PPP projects
Commercialisation potential analysis
Market potential
Capacity of assuming long term commitments

Day Four: Basics of Project Preparation: An Overview of its Key Components

Competency Description: A critical success factor in any PPP project is understanding the various components and best practice to prepare and implement a comprehensive project implementation plan.Key behaviours:

Develop a practical ability to identify and mange project risks
Understand the importance of financial and economic analyses
Interpret costings estimates and impacts
Decipher payment mechanisms in PPP projects
Develop and implement practical project plans

Topics to be covered:

Project identification, risks, sustainability
Project design: Tender strategy, technical aspects, components, cost estimation, and financing
Structuring a PPP contracts
How to avoid common pitfalls
Importance of project financial and economic analysis
Understanding and applying payment mechanisms
Preparing the Project Implementation Plan
Project Management Arrangements – Various types of agreements and monitoring indicators

Day Five: Planning for PPP Project Management, Project Operations and Hand Back

Key behaviours:

Appreciate the importance of proactive project management strategy
Know the fundamental concepts of project management
Identify the challenges parties face in a PPP projects and how to overcome them
Choose the right people and skills for the various roles
Formulate clear and concise management plans
Appreciate the strategic objectives of stakeholder management

Topics to be covered:

Appointing a PPP project manager and project team (Project Implementation Unit)
Key roles within the project, including decision-making authorities, and sources and funding for assistance
Preparing the project plan
Dealing with main challenges of a PPP project
The absolute importance of stakeholder consultation and managing the interface
Risk assessment and analysis
Going beyond the construction phase to ensure success in Operations
Hand back of asset upon contract expiry