Technical Assistance for PPPs

 Part of: BUILD

For Governments

You want to build energy and transport infrastructure without debt traps — and own the assets after 3 years.

You've seen infrastructure deals where foreign contractors leave, and nothing works. You want PPPs that train your engineers, use external technology, and transfer ownership. We give you the financial templates and legal frameworks. You negotiate the deal.

✅ You structure bankable PPPs with local equity — no debt traps.

✅ Your local engineers take over operations after 3 years.

✅ You co-invest 20% → 70% — so you own maintenance.

  • What's holding you back: the “build and abandon” model

    A foreign company builds a solar farm or a toll road. They hire their own people, use their own parts. When they leave, you have no manuals, no spare parts, no trained staff. It falls apart.

    You've seen the pattern:

    “The contractor promised to train our engineers — they did two days of PowerPoint.”

    “We can't afford to maintain what they built.”

    “Every PPP is designed to keep us dependent.”

    We offer a different way. We help you structure deals where local ownership is the goal, not an afterthought.

    Your Plan — 3 steps you take with our tools

    1. Assess your project and partners

    We give you a due diligence checklist. You evaluate potential external technology partners and local equity investors.

    2. Design the co-investment and transition plan

    You decide: government equity %, private capital %, donor loan guarantee. We provide the financial model templates. You also set the handover timeline (typically 36 months).

    3. Negotiate and monitor

    We provide legal and technical advisors (you choose if you want them). You lead the negotiation. After signing, we help you set up a real-time performance dashboard — then you manage it.

For Donors

You want your loan guarantee or development finance to back a bankable deal that doesn't become a debt trap — with real technology transfer, not two days of PowerPoint.

It's not a credit risk you can't assess — it's a technology-transfer risk that's hard to verify from a term sheet.

Development finance backing infrastructure PPPs typically requires local capacity-building and technology-transfer commitments as a condition – but those commitments are notoriously hard to verify in practice. A contractor can claim training happened while local engineers never gain real operational control, meaning the “transfer” clause in your financing agreement was satisfied on paper but not in substance, leaving the country still dependent – and your guarantee still exposed – after the contract period ends.

Real-time performance dashboards and a fixed handover timeline give you a way to actually verify the technology-transfer and local-ownership condition is being met, not just claimed.

  • Your wins with Technical Assistance for PPPs, as a donor:

    ✅ You get a real-time performance dashboard verifying operational control is actually transferring to local engineers – not a training completion claim you have to take on faith.

    ✅ Local equity participation (20% → 70% co-investment) makes the deal more bankable and reduces debt-trap risk – the government has a real ownership stake, not just debt exposure.

    ✅ Your loan guarantee backs a deal with a fixed 36-month handover timeline – a verifiable milestone, not an open-ended “eventually” transfer promise.

    “Within 36 months, local engineers verifiably run the asset – tracked on a real-time dashboard, not claimed in a training completion certificate two days after a PowerPoint deck.”

    This is the same verification discipline behind every BAROS-AFRICA engagement: real, checkable milestones for local ownership, not language in a financing agreement that's hard to confirm after the fact.

    [See our co-investment model]

For Partners

You want your technology or equipment supply relationship to continue after operational transfer — not a one-time contract that quietly ends once local engineers take over.

It's not an obsolescence risk — it's a question of what your ongoing role actually looks like once operations transfer.

Technology and engineering partners in traditional “build and abandon” PPPs often relied on long-term operations and maintenance contracts as their real revenue model – meaning a genuine transfer of operational control to local engineers after 3 years can look, from the outside, like losing that relationship entirely.

What actually continues is the equipment and parts supply chain, software and firmware support, and the follow-on project pipeline – your role shifts from operator to supplier and advisor, similar to how a manufacturer doesn't need to drive the vehicles it sells to keep supplying parts for them.

  • Your wins with Technical Assistance for PPPs, as a partner:

    ✅ Your equipment, parts supply, and warranty relationship continues after operational transfer – local engineers running the asset doesn't end your supply chain role.

    ✅ You're positioned for follow-on projects – the next solar farm, the next toll road – based on a demonstrated, successfully transferred first deal, a stronger reference than a “build and abandon” project with no local goodwill.

    ✅ Real-time performance dashboard data gives you ongoing visibility into how your technology performs in local hands – valuable product and engineering feedback you don't get once you've fully exited a traditional contract.

    “After the 36-month handover, your role shifts from operator to supplier and advisor – not eliminated, but redefined around what continues: parts, updates, and the next project.”

    This runs on the same flexible model as every solution: your relationship with the asset continues in a different form, rather than ending the moment operational control transfers.

    [See our full partnership model]