OREANDA-NEWS. September 15, 2008. A workshop on promoting public private partnership (PPP) was held at Vnesheconombank.

The workshop was organized with the participation of Vnesheconombank and Partnerships UK (Great Britain).

The workshop’s participants discussed issues of promoting the market for PPP projects. Partnerships UK’s top manager Edward Farcuarson in charge of consulting foreign countries’ governments on applying PPP shared the experience of organizing PPP projects as well as the experience of running national PPP centers.

Vnesheconombank’s Public Private Partnership Center Director  Alexandr Bazhenov said that PPP projects would account for about a third of Vnesheconombank’s financing amount (approximately 2 billion US dollars) by the year 2012. Based on these plans, each year the Bank is to implement 15-20 programs and specific projects with the use of PPP mechanisms, said A. Bazhenov. In order to support the development of PPP projects market, Vnesheconombank jointly with educational establishment is engaged in developing a programme aimed at improving professional skills of all participants in the investment process including representatives of executive authorities of all levels in training and implementing investment projects on public private partnership terms.