Developing public-private partnerships in Liberia / Zachary Kaplan ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

Experience in PPP transactions and natural resource concessions in Liberia since 2003 -- Some trends in PPP experience in post-conflict countries -- Liberia's PPP experience -- Freeport of Monrovia experience-- LEC-MHI management contract -- Buchanan renewables IPP -- Solid waste contracts for Monrovia -- Natural resource concession in Liberia -- Themes useful in PPP project structuring based on experiences and lessons learned -- Phased risk-based approach preference from private sector towards the development of PPPs -- Preference by the private sector for remuneration by user charges -- Need to address low capacity to develop, monitor and evaluate -- Avoid additional missed opportunities for joint infrastructure development by natural resource concessionaires -- Establish clear principles for selecting and prioritizing PPPs in Liberia -- Deepening PPP development through legal and institutional reform -- Overview of legal and institutional enabling environment -- Weaknesses to the legal and institutional enabling environment detailed -- Problems with definitions of PPP and natural resource concession -- Unclear institutional roles and responsibilities -- Incomplete PPP and concession legal framework -- The PPCA -- The proposed NBC Act -- Legislative and institutional options to deepen the links between natural resource concessions, and PPPs and expand PPP development -- Recommendations for implementing strengthened PPP framework -- Recommendations for additional framework support -- Generating the next set of PPP transactions in Liberia -- The PPP short list -- Buchanan and Greenville Ports -- HFO facilities at Freeport -- Power projects -- Mt. Coffee -- Mini-grid power PPPs -- Projects that are tied to natural resource concessions -- Power as spin-offs from mining concessions -- Road works as spin-offs in forestry concessions -- "Long-list" of PPP transactions -- Next steps in pipeline development.

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