Adetef is the French agency for international technical cooperation, focusing on public procurement and public-private partnerships (PPP) across various sectors. The agency supports partner administrations through capacity building and technical assistance to enhance public service delivery and governance. Recent initiatives highlight its role in fostering PPP development in France and abroad, particularly in African and Mediterranean regions.

1. French perspective: PPP institutional
support, public procurement and
training aspects
Jean-Philippe Nadal
Adetef, director PP and PPP
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
FRENCH EXPERIENCES AND SERBIAN FRAMEWORK
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia,
Friday, November 7th 2014
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2. Agenda
• Introducing Adetef
• From French PPP to European
approach
• PPP : no more than PP, the best or
the worst of public procurement
• Building the required capacity of
public administration: French
experience in supporting public
partner
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3. Introducing Adetef
Who are we ?
Adetef is the agency for international technical cooperation of the Ministries
in charge of Economy and Finance, Ecology, Sustainable development and
Energy.
Adetef gathers high-level public experts in these fields.
Task
Adetef helps partner administrations to implement reforms and
manage challenging projects.
Adetef in brief

4. Institutional environment
A public agency
Institutional environment
Ministry for the Economy,
Industrial Renewal and
the Digital Sector
Ministry for Finance and
Public Accounts
Ministry for Ecology,
Sustainable
Development and Energy
Ministry for
Decentralisation and the
Civil Service
An agency for international
cooperation

5. A high-level expertise
 Tax system, Public financial management, Budget reform
 Customs, Foreign trade
 Business development, Quality infrastructure, Standardisation
 Statistics, Economic policies
 Energy policies, Climate, Urban sustainable development
 Public procurement, Public-Private patnerships
 Digital economy, e-government
 Competition, Consumer policies
 Training, Human Resources development
 Tourism
 Public communication
A high-level expertise

6. Types of intervention
4 complementary types of intervention
Bilateral cooperation
European institutional twinning programmes
200 twinning programmes managed for 15 years
 Technical assistance contracts
200 contracts managed since 2008
 Indirect management
Types of intervention

7. A renowned expertise
Our added value
A renowned expertise
Providing know-how
and
experience of
public experts
Monitoring the
long-term
impact of
assistance
Bringing
together public
and private
expertise within
tailor-made
partnerships

8. Our references
Establishment of Finance Institutes. Lebanon, Serbia, Jordan, Palestinian Territories, Côte d’Ivoire
(since 1996, Leader, 6,9 M €)
Mediterranean countries
 Management of the Economy support program. Algeria (2007-2011, Leader, 9 M €)
 MEDSTAT III: Statistical cooperation in the Mediterranean Region (2010-2013, Leader, 7 M €)
 Supporting standardisation, accreditation, metrology and market monitoring restructuring. Morocco
(Twinning programme, 2013-2014, Leader, 0,8 M €)
 Targeted budget management back-up. Tunisia (Twinning programme, 2011-2014, Leader, 2 M €)
Sub-Saharan Africa
 Supporting Public Finance Governance. Republic of the Congo (2010-2015, Partner, 4,4 M €)
 Fight against climate change: strengthening capacities to define national policies in Africa. Republic of Benin, Gabon, Kenya,
Uganda (2012-2015, Leader, 3 M €)
Balkans-Turkey
 Training for public procurement. Balkans-Turkey (2010-2013, Partner, 4 M €)
 Heroin Route II: Information networks. Central Asia, Caucasia and the Balkans (2013-2016, Partner, 2,6 M €)
Asia
 Trade capacity building program dedicated to intellectual property training. Vietnam (2009-2012, Leader, 0,27 M €)
European Union
 Consumer Classroom : website for consumer education. European Union (2011-2013, Leader, 6 M €)
Our references

9. Key figures
 Public interest group created in 2002
 36 projects won in 2013
 88 million euros of contracts won in 2013
 A staff of one hundred people
 Regional branches in Hanoi (Vietnam), Kiev (Ukraine) and
Tunis (Tunisia)
Key figures

10. From French PPP to EU approach
• examples: energy production, transport,
buildings, military equipments, toll bridges,
parking services
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11. • Instead of buying a train, you allow the private
company to sell individual journey tickets to end
users
• Meaning:
• Investment VERSUS Investment + maintenance + operation
• Short term contract VERSUS Long term contract
• Public financing VERSUS Private financing
• New possibilities for risk sharing (operation)
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Basic definitions and
mechanisms
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12. • Concession scheme
• PFI approach
• Recent EU developments
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From French PPP to EU approach

13. PPP : no more than PP, the best or the
worst of public procurement
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• PPP a kind of PP since it is not
privatisation and requires contracting a
private company
• The best of PP: the private contractor is
asked to do as much as it is possible
• The worst is possible:
• High value contract
• Visibility
• complexity

14. Building the required capacity of public
administration: French experience in
supporting public partner
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Assistance to the public partners
• It is our mission
• For the Public authorities to keep the leading position in
deciding according to public and general interest
• To build balanced relations between public and private
partners
• To understand innovative proposals from the private
partner and select the better among different proposals
• To build adequate sofisticated long term contracts

15. Building the required capacity of public
administration: French experience in
supporting public partner (2)
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Recent French experience in supporting public
partners through Adetef
• World Bank – France Initiative to develop PPP in African
Zone Franc (15 countries)
• Bilateral cooperation with Morrocco, Tunisia
• Asian Development Bank 3,5 USD million contract to
assist Vietnamese public authorities

16. Building the required capacity of public
administration: French experience in
supporting public partner (3)
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Main areas of interest
• Central level: setting up general framework
• in order not to reinvest the wheel for each new
contract
• To build a resource center for this rare expertise –
role of a PPP unit
• Try and start immediately with pilot projects
(learning by doing)
• Capacity building

17. Building the required capacity of public
administration: French experience in
supporting public partner (2)
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Main issues
• General PP capacities
• Financing
• Long term contracts

18. Contact us
 www.adetef.fr/eng
 jean-philippe.nadal@adetef.finances.gouv.fr
 +33 1 53 18 36 90
 Mobile +33 625 797 602
 Bâtiment Necker
120, rue de Bercy
75572 PARIS Cedex 12
France
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