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The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
Never heard of the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility - PPIAF? That’s not surprising. For the past eight years PPIAF has operated in obscurity, using aid money to fund consultants to advise poor countries from Afghanistan to Zambia on how to bring the private sector in to public services and infrastructure.
But that secrecy is about to change! A report by the World Development Movement in the UK and FIVAS in Norway has exposed the work of PPIAF and now activists from around the world are mobilising to oppose PPIAF and to promote progressive alternatives to its agenda of water privatisation. In particular, 138 civil society groups and trade unions in over 48 countries have now written to PPIAF’s aid donors to ask them to withdraw their funding and to fund public-public partnerships for water instead.
Read about our forum in The Hague on May 22 2007 and view a video of the protest that took place (youtube)
More information about the PPIAF
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PPIAF briefing |
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PPIAF summary |
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PPIAF case study: Malawi |
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PPIAF case study: Paraguay |
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PPIAF case study: Mumbai |
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Down the Drain |
Read the open letter to donors:
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Open letter to the donors contributing to the PPIAF |
News about PPIAF
Italy withdraws from controversial World Bank privatisation fund
22 May 2007
Campaigners today celebrated the decision by the Italian government to withdraw its support from the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), a highly controversial element of the World Bank’s water privatisation agenda, on the eve of PPIAF’s annual meeting of donors in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Italy withdraws from controversial World Bank privatisation fund
133 groups urge rich countries to pull the plug on World Bank’s push for water privatisation
15 May 2007
Press Release from the World Development Movement on behalf of Corporate Europe Observatory, FIVAS, Friends of the Earth International, Transnational Institute
133 groups urge rich countries to pull the plug on World Bank’s push for water privatisation
Victory for UK campaigners as Norway abandons controversial water privatisation scheme
26 February 2007
Norway has withdrawn from a controversial scheme that funds consultants to advise poor countries on the privatisation of public services including water, after a damning report by Britain’s World Development Movement (WDM) and the Norwegian Association of International Water Studies (FIVAS).
Victory for UK campaigners as Norway abandons controversial water privatisatio
Over £30 mllion of UK aid money spent on funding body for privatisation consultants
26th November 2006
Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) has channelled over £30 million of its aid through an institution designed to pay consultants to push privatisation in poor countries according to a report released today
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