1. Challenging Minds – Creating Solutions
INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH & LEGAL REFORM
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Institute for Economic Growth & Legal Reform (IGROW)
Corporate Capabilities
In the last few decades, remarkable progress has been achieved by several nations that have moved from
low-income, developing country status to middle income emerging markets. Countries like Brazil, South
Korea, Chile, Malaysia, Mauritius, and indeed, India and China, all share one common denominator: an em-
phasis on high growth economic policies using market based strategies, solutions and legal frameworks.
Moreover, these economies have also demonstrated that pro-poor policies and programs that target pov-
erty reduction and provide incentives to “partner” with low income groups as valuable consumers, can ac-
celerate the transition from poor to middle class with greater equity.
IGROW founders and its team of world recognized experts and partners have been at the vanguard of this
new economic thinking and have been instrumental in working with policy makers in Africa, the Middle
East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Central Asia, South America and Asia in creating this economic para-
digm. So committed to this process and these regions, IGROW, headquartered in Rome, has established
offices Addis Ababa, Cairo, Chisinau, Washington, Quito and soon La Habana.
While several countries have made remarkable progress in growing and opening their economies and re-
ducing poverty, many developing countries have been underperforming over the last two decades when
measured by indicators such as economic productivity, income inequality, investment climate, and per cap-
ita income growth. It does not have to be that way. IGROW facilitates the transfer and implementation of
its collective knowledge and tools for our client countries and multilateral financial organizations to “main-
stream” these valuable lessons learned for viable and successful economic reform, growth and sustainabil-
ity.

2. IGROW founders and experts were the first to introduce the concept and then methodology of Public Pri-
vate Partnership (PPP) arrangements - which have been determined as the most advantageous solution for
our clients to achieve maximum – former contractor – now partners – structuring, financing (shared risks),
implementation and operation of projects and programs through designing the most strategic, economical,
environment friendly enterprises.
The IGROW Team & Partners have extensive unique and successful worldwide PPP training and advisory
services experience, especially in agricultural and food waste management, water infrastructure services, ,
environment and health sectors. The IGROW Team has developed special models and techniques for PPP
needs assessment, how to select projects for PPP investments and professional and institutional capacity
building. The following are few examples in which the IGROW Director and Staff have been engaged in as-
sisting countries:
Italy: Developed training programs on use of laws, regulations and directives to assist public sector
decision makers and the private sector to develop and implement projects (with International Develop-
ment Law Organization)
Italy: Assist government, international donors and multilateral organization on economic growth poli-
cy framework, advice on environment friendly, innovative and job creating small buss ventures, assist in
legal framework for PPP and business development arrangements (Rome, Italy)
Washington, DC: PPP legal and regulatory program designer, advisor, specialist trainer for participants
from 175 countries worldwide. Provided technical assistance tomore than 23 countries and trained on how to
form economically self-sustaining public-private partnerships at Institute for Public-Private Partnerships.
Ethiopia: Feasibility study on using the remains of sugar cane from sugar factory production into biogas
in 12 sugar factory plants (negotiation in progress- for US Trade and Development Agency )
Ethiopia: Health Sector - Public Private Partnerships in Health Sector (PPPH) training and advisory ser-
vices in primary services facilities and tertiary level hospitals services provision (Ethiopian Ministry of
Health with USAID Financing)
Ethiopia: Legal advice and project oversight on how local private sector contractors participate in an in-
ternational development project in constructing rural health services center with the Ministry of Health
(USAID/IRD)
Ethiopia: EU/ Ethiopia survey of Ethiopian Federal and Regional Governments’ capacity gaps in han-
dling emerging problems specifically in investment, environment, regulating the private sector in public
services investment. Advisory services to address the problems to judges, prosecutors and lawyers and
recommendations on revising laws. (Justice Sector Professional Training Institute (JOPTC) EU grant
with Human Dynamics in Vienna, Austria).
Moldova: Advising public and private sector on use of Agricultural and Wine waste to generate electricity,
fertilizer and other bi-products through anaerobic digesting/methane gas, closed loop power generation,
which resolves power self-sufficiency and alleviating environment impact and laws for such waste products
and in particular manure contamination.

3. Tajikistan: Advising public and private sector on use of Agricultural and Wine waste to generate electricity,
fertilizer and other bi-products through anaerobic digesting/methane gas, closed loop power generation,
which resolves power self-sufficiency and alleviating environment impact and laws for such waste products
and in particular manure contamination.
Yemen: Review of environment and water sector legal framework for capacity development.
Egypt: Managed Reform of Egyptian Administrative Court, judges’ capacity and information network
Egypt: Legal/Regulatory consulting Public-Private Partnerships in Solid Waste Manage-
ment, Development Training II (DT2) project, (USAID, Alexandria & Cairo, Egypt)
Egypt: Solid Waste PPP Legal and Regulatory assessment, developed procurement evaluation
PPP projects, assisted in designing revenue scheme in relation to Alexandria City budget allo-
cations. The Director of IGROW reviewed the City beatification regulations for solid waste,
monuments cleaning and beach cleaning services and identified constricts in human re-
sources experience, standards of cleanliness, and the designed the private participation in
the project for City beautification. Advised on PPP procurement system and call for potential
tenders and tender review w process. (Alexandria Solid Waste Privatization Project, USAID
Sri Lanka: Ports Privatization Advisors, Privatization Advisor for Asian Development Bank (ADB),
Colombo Port, Sri Lanka
India: Ports Privatization Advisors Ports Privatization Specialist, Feasibility Study for Privati-
zation of Mumbai and Chennai (ADB)
Trinidad and Tobago: Advisory and training on how to provide water and electric services through
public private partnership framework. The Utility services were provided under a combined
administration with problems in efficiently providing the services, collection of bills, and system
maintenance in both water and electricity services. IGROW Director conducted a two week
training workshop on restructuring of the system under PPP, unbundling, service efficiency and
collection through the private participation in the public service delivery.
The training was followed by an IGROW Director advisory services and Peer Review and comments
for amendments of draft Utilities Regulation, and appeared on local television interview about restructur-
ing of the utilities services along with the Director of Public Utilities of Trinidad and Tobago.
Zimbabwe: Advisory and training services on how to unbundle the electricity services into generation,
transmission and distribution components to facilitate private sector participation in the provision of elec-
tricity The services, bills collection and system maintenance caused low budget and poor services delivery
that the Electricity Authority sought to solve through the public private partnership. IGROW Director
trained senior officials of the Electricity Authority on PPP concept and legal reform and provided advisory
services by drafting concept paper for the unbundling of electricity services components generation,
transmission and distribution and how the private sector can provide the unbundled services. (German
Development Grant)

4. Washington DC: Trained senior official from Brazil on the privatization and Public private partnerships in
energy sector .
Albania: Advised on Water law drafting and advised on legal reform for Private sector participation in
providing Water services. Albania’s water system was centralized with low budget that services were too
poor that water was availed only part of the day I'm many parts of town. IGRWO Director reviewed the Wa-
ter law and prepared amendments, trained senior officials on PPP transactions and regulatory system. Ad-
vised on PPP procurement, selection of private provides and standardization of the service delivery quality.
Efficiency, and billing and collection system (USAID Tirana, Albania)
South Africa: PPP for Municipal Service Provision Training Program, Reviewed municipal services law, in-
cluding, water services, electricity services, waste management, city transportation services. The South Af-
rican Department of Constitution and Provincial Administration planned to expand efficient, quality and
consistent standard municipal services to all citizens in a municipality including the outlying disadvantaged
population under the former apartheid regime. The director of IGROW conducted assessment in 364 mu-
nicipalities on how the private sector can participate in the provision of the services under PPP system. He
and his team provided PPP training services to all city council members in different cities, and advised on
city ppp transactions in Queenstown, Bulawayo, and Pretoria. (USAID, Pretoria).