Tuesday, February 7, 2012

PPP Days 2012

I wish to announce an upcoming event that will be of interest to you. It is the Business Forum which will be held on 23 February 2012, at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. It is held under the auspices of the PPP Days that is being co hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the World Bank Institute and the Asian Development Bank with the support of the IFC and the Swiss Economic Cooperation Organization( SECO).
This event will provide opportunities to:
– personally meet key government officials from countries show-casing their project pipelines at the Business Forum including the Russian Federation, India, Brazil, Kazakhstan,  Vietnam , the Philippines, Turkey, Japan and Ukraine,

– be among the first to learn about their PPP projects;

– network with public and private sector practitioners and decision makers in the PPP business world;
In addition, you may also be interested to attend the the ‘Virtual Site Visits’ (Friday, 24 February) that will present several PPP success stories from around the world such as the administrative buildings project in Berne , Manila Water, Lesotho Hospital, Romania dialysis, and the Geneva-Annecy PPP motorway.

You can find detailed information on the event at the following website http://www.unece.org/ceci/ppp.html where you can also obtain the registration form. furthermore a briefing for the business community will be held prior to the Business Forum at 4pm on Wednesday, 22 February - that will be followed by 'Swiss Night' that is kindly being hosted by the Swiss Government.

Should you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the UNECE Secretariat by email.