Tunisian PPP Unit – PPP pipeline operationalisation

Description of the mission

PPP pipeline operationalization, through the implementation of identified projects in the following areas: Transport and logistics, Energy, Water and environment, Infrastructure and urban development, Scientific and technological poles, Education

Description of major projects

• Sfax, study for the creation of a light train line,
• Financial modelling, scenarios analysis and robustness tests on 3 possible contractual forms: PPP, Concession and Public contracting
• Valuation of the risks specific to the context and integration into the preliminary assessment
• Sustainability Analysis and medium-term budget
• Sewage processing plant
• Analysis of the master plan for the National Sanitation Office for the establishment of three new sewage processing stations in Greater Tunis
• Port of Bizerte, feasibility and budget sustainability study
• Djerba, Containers, feasibility and budget sustainability study
• Financial city, feasibility and budget sustainability study
• Capacity building training delivery on diverse Financial and juridical aspects of PPP transaction process and implementation (Value for Money, Net Actual Value, Budget sustainability, Spontaneous offers…)

• Project feasibility studies
• Review of studies already undertaken
• Project affordability study (standard budget sustainability model)
• Preliminary evaluation of projects (economic-financial profitability study, financial structuring study)
• Elaboration of risk matrices for several projects (diagnosis of the financial environment of PPPs, risk allocation according to standard practices and usual expectations of investors)
• Prioritization of the project pipeline based on multi-criteria evaluations
• Optimization of the current legislative framework according to the constraints encountered
• Study of alternatives to sovereign financial guarantee mechanisms such as assignment of accepted assigned receivables / deconsolidating solutions for the State