Jamaica
December 2011

For the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) in Jamaica, IP3 designed and implemented a one-week training course on Regulatory Impact Assessments. (RIA) and a one-week course on Regulating Quality of Service (RQS).  Each course was conducted for approximately 20 staff members of the OUR.

The RIA course focused on the key elements on developing, designing, implementing, and report regulatory impact assessments. The RQS course focused on the key elements to quality of service regulation, planning and monitoring technical service, monitoring financial issues, and communicating quality of service issues to relevant stakeholders.  IP3 was responsible for all technical content and delivery of all training sessions.  Group action plans on the next steps forward was a key result from the training.

Robert Taylor, lead instructor and IP3 regulatory advisor, states, "The staff of OUR is top notch, conscientious and above all, committed to their work and to using better regulation to improve the investment environment and the quality of services to consumers.”

IP3 is pleased to announce the addition of Jacques Cook to our staff as Senior PPP Advisor. A lawyer by training, Mr. Cooks comes to IP3 with over 30 years’ experience in infrastructure development, project finance, and PPP advisory and transactions experience. Sector experience includes energy, water, transportation, telecommunications, and general municipal services.

In the past decade, Mr. Cook served as lead PPP Transportation Advisor for Castalia, Head of the PPP Group for Peckar & Abramson, P.C., and PPP Transaction Advisor to Allen & Overy, LLP. Prior to this, Mr. Cook served for twenty-three years as Senior Counsel/Division Chief to the Inter-American Development Bank where he was responsible for all legal work for the IDB’s “private sector window”, which  financed some of the trend setting PPP infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Mr. Cook’s PPP work has taken him to over 30 countries worldwide. His PPP work in the United States includes project transaction activities in Florida, North Carolina, New York and Texas. Mr. Cook has also been a frequent trainer for IP3 and a sought after speaker at numerous infrastructure conferences.

Tommy White, Director of IP3, states, “We are very excited to have Jacques join our staff.  He has been a leader in promoting and advising on infrastructure public-private partnership programs and transactions worldwide.  Jacques will be a real asset to IP3 as we continue to grow our thought leadership and capacities in PPP advisory and capacity building endeavors both internationally and in the United States.”

Mr. Cook will be based in IP3 headquarters in Arlington, VA.

For the Center for Fiscal Risk Management of the Ministry of Finance in Indonesia, IP3 designed a three-day customized training course titled, "Structuring Bankable Public-Private Partnership Concession Agreements." This course was conducted for approximately 30 officials from MoF staff and other relevant stakeholders in Yogyakarta.

The goal of this training was to develop a full understanding of PPP contract design, structuring, negotiation, and dispute resolution. IP3 was responsible for all administrative/logistics, technical content, simulation design/delivery, and delivery of all training sessions.

Jacques Cook, Senior PPP Advisor and Lead Instructor for IP3, states "The participants in this training session were very interested in risk management and the structure of PPP contracts in allocating and managing risks. Indonesia is clearly interested in implementing an ambitious PPP program. Programs such as this will enhance that country's ability to successfully develop and execute its PPP projects."