Infrastructure Development Funds: Strategies to Leverage Public and Private Finance (July 9, 2012

Course Description

The process of obtaining financing for an infrastructure/PPP project is among the most complicated tasks that governments undertake. Many government officials are not familiar with what investors really seek in a project, and how they make decisions. Unfortunately, it is all too common for governments to spend years trying to develop a project, only for the project to fail to obtain financing at the end. Such challenges have been compounded by the difficulty of raising financing in the wake of the global financial crisis. The demand for infrastructure assets is strong, even in the midst of the global financial crisis. Yet, unless a government understands what these investors seek, and how to develop high quality projects that meet this standard, they are unlikely to access this huge pool of capital in an efficient way.

Analyzing how infrastructure projects are financed and how project finance works
Evaluating the technical and financial tools for infrastructure financing
Applying the fundamentals of financial modeling to infrastructure projects
Evaluating what infrastructure funds are, how they evaluate investment opportunities, and how they generate returns on their investment
Applying the process to raise money from an infrastructure fund for a project
Evaluating how you make a project more attractive to infrastructure funds
Evaluating the impact of the financial crisis on infrastructure finance and public private partnerships
Evaluating recent innovations in financing infrastructure projects around the world

Outline

Course Module Topics
Module I:	Overview of Different Infrastructure Financing Options How has infrastructure been historically financed? What are the different types of instruments: bonds, bank loans, municipal finance, securitized products Fundamentals of project finance and how project finance is used to develop infrastructure projects History and overview of infrastructure funds: how they fit in constellation of options; factors driving their growth; recent trends and likely future direction; funds investing in developing countries
Module II:	How Infrastructure Finance Works: Fundamentals of Technical and Financial Analysis Overview of project finance and infrastructure finance modeling How do infrastructure funds and private equity funds make money and generate returns on their investment? Better understanding the industry and major players
Module III:	How to Raise Financing from an Infrastructure Fund How do different kinds of infrastructure investors make investment decisions? What is their decision making process? Infrastructure investment promotion and marketing: strategies and techniques Who should I approach? Where? How?
Module IV:	What Should Governments/Multilaterals Be Doing to Improve the Bankability of Projects? Lessons learned from innovations in infrastructure finance in developing countries Recent measures taken to enhance bankability of projects Emerging sources of funding in developing countries How to structure and market infrastructure projects to infrastructure funds How to establish infrastructure funds and banks in local markets Case studies (what was done, lessons learned, and how they can be applied in other countries)
Module V:	Impact of the Financial Crisis on Infrastructure Financing and PPPs How have the economics of transactions changed? What has happened to the providers of capital — lenders, infrastructure funds, developers? What steps have been taken by governments and multilaterals (e.g., stimulus, infrastructure crisis funds)? What does the future hold for financing of infrastructure projects? Where will capital come from? Where are the remaining challenges to be overcome?
Module VI:	Funds Investing in Smaller Scale Infrastructure and Other Specialized Funds Overview of alternative energy, microfinance, SME funds, etc. Infrastructure funds and microfinance: Trends and challenges in emerging markets Designing an infrastructure fund for Social Investments
Module VII:	Site Visits and Meetings
Module VIII:	Action Planning

Requirements for Completing the Course

The process of obtaining financing for an infrastructure/PPP project is among the most complicated tasks that governments undertake. Many government officials are not familiar with what investors really seek in a project, and how they make decisions. Unfortunately, it is all too common for governments to spend years trying to develop a project, only for the project to fail to obtain financing at the end. Such challenges have been compounded by the difficulty of raising financing in the wake of the global financial crisis. The demand for infrastructure assets is strong, even in the midst of the global financial crisis. Yet, unless a government understands what these investors seek, and how to develop high quality projects that meet this standard, they are unlikely to access this huge pool of capital in an efficient way.

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