Spring 2016

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Activities
of APPPI in2015 and its Future
Vision in 2016

Spring 2016 Edition
We are pleased to bring you to Spring 2016 editionof the newsletter of Asia Public-Private Partnership
Institute (APPPI).
Since its establishment in 2011, while this year
marks the 4th year of its foundation, APPPI has been
continuing to grow and its activities have beenbroadening steadily. The main activities in 2015
represent PPP filed study in North Surigao province,
the Philippines, and the one in Kedah province,
Malaysia. In those studies, a study team composedof research partners and graduate students of Toyo
PPP school conducted PPP Applicability Study in its
Regional Development Support Programme (RDSP)
and provided detailed suggestions on regional
development potential of the regions based on the
result of the studies for the local governments of saidcountries. Later, a presentation of the studies result
was held by APPPI by inviting the government
officials from said countries, Japanese private
enterprises and Japanese local government officials.
In this edition, while introducing some activities
engaged in 2015, we are also glad to present ouractivity plans in 2016. Since Toyo University having
been selected as Centre of Excellence (CoE) in PPP
for local governments by United Nations Economic
Centre for Europe (UNECE) in 2015, APPPI further
promotes its partnership with UN and otherinternational development organizations such as
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to link
Japanese local governments and private enterprises
to those in Asian countries through APPPI’s RDSP
activities. In this context, APPPI plans to partner with
JICA to conduct a PPP study on local government
units in Indonesia in 2016.
Also, since the launch of APPPI membershipprogram in 2012, we have been providing a varietyof opportunities for our members such as privatecompanies looking to start or expand their businessin Asian PPP market and local municipalities
intending to find their partners and strengthen theirties with their counterparts in Asian countries.
We look forward to your participation in our APPPI
membership programme.

Prof. Sam Tabuchi, the head of APPPI, giving a lecture in
PPP short-term seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam (February 2016)

Contents of this edition
APPPI’s Activities in 2015
・Activity Report in the Philippines, Malaysia
and Indonesia
・Report on Implementation of PPP Seminar
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in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Obituary: Passing of Chancellor Shiokawa
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APPPI’s Honorary Advisor Dr. Mahathirjoins in the Tenth Annual International
PPP Forum
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APPPI’s Activity Plan in 2016
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in Kedah province, Malaysia (February 2016)

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APPPI’s Research Activities in 2015
A year of growth as a transmission hub of PPP studies in Asia

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February 2015 ： APPPI Conducted RDSP/PPPApplicable Study in Cebu, the Philippines:
Based on the Minutes of Understanding signed
between APPPI and the Cebu province, APPPI study
team carried out Regional Development Support
Programme (RDSP)/PPP Applicability Study in the
Cebu province, the Philippines from February 1 to 8,
2015.
This study was conducted at the request of the Cebu
province to help them tackle the four issues the Cebu
province has been facing, namely, Disaster Risk
Reduction, Health Sector, Land Use and Mega Cebu
Issues, and based on the conducted study, APPPI
study team proposed PPP project concepts to bringthose issues to solution. The result of the study was
made into a comprehensible report and thepresentation held on the result of the study in Tokyo in
August 2015. The governor of the Cebu province wasinvited to the session from the Philippines. Japanesecompanies looking at business opportunities in Cebu
were also invited and had a business consultation
session to exchange their views with the Cebu officials
during the session.

Meeting with officials in Cebu

February 2015 ： APPPI Held an Advanced PPP
Seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam:
From March 24 to 27, 2015, APPPI held a three-day
seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam. The seminar wasorganized by the Ministry of Planning and Investment,
the National University of City Engineering, Hanoi andsponsored by SE Corporation. This seminar consistedof three-day lecture & discussion sessions followed bya site visit to a solid waste management plant innorthern part of Hanoi. Almost 100 people participatedin the seminar.
For the first day, participants reviewed basics andlegal framework of PPP in Vietnam. Mr. Tang, Director
General of Ministry of Planning and Investment's
Department of Procurement Management, gave aspeech on their newly introduced PPP Decree andrelated laws and regulations.

For the following days, the program was dedicated tostudies of potential PPP projects in Hanoi, Vietnam.
These projects were: a building complex for
incubation of SMEs from overseas (Japan) in NUCE;
a mass transit system in a large city in Vietnam; andhighway project in Quang Ninh Province.

PPP Seminar in Hanoi, VietnamJuly2015 : Vietnamese Government Delegation
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Visited APPPI:A delegation from Vietnamese government, theDrafting Team of Vietnamese Social/ Economic
Development Plan (2016-2020), visited APPPI on 4
July, 2015. The purpose of this visit was to exchange
ideas and concepts regarding how to streamline theexisting PPP laws and regulations in Vietnam inorder to encourage the private sectors participation in
the PPP market to provide public services efficiently
across Asia.
Director Prof. Sam Tabuchi explained APPPI's
activities in Asia and basic principles of successful
PPP projects for providing public services. Later,
discussions were held between APPPI members andthe Vietnam officials on how to ensure the continuityof providing public services in effective use of PPP
module and promote smooth transfer of public assets
to private
Contactsector
us: in efficient and transparent manner.
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Meeting with Vietnamese government officials

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August 2015： Governor Davide Participated in
Presentation of PPP Applicability Study for Cebu,
the Philippines:

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On August 3, 2015, APPPI held the final presentationon the result of the RDSP/PPP Applicability Study
which was conducted in February 2015, and the
Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III was invited to thesession from the Philippines.
In the session, APPPI's Director Prof. Sam Tabuchi
and his study team members made a presentation
about their findings and suggestions regarding PPP
projects concepts, and discussed how to achievesustainable development using PPP methods among
the participants from the Cebu province, Japanese
private companies, UNECE and other development
agencies' officials.
Governor Davide stressed the significance of PPP tomaintain solid economic growth and create an
investment-friendly climate in Cebu for promoting
more foreign direct investment (FDI) from Japan.
Some Japanese private firms also mentioned thatthey would like to implement feasibility study tocompete in the market.

≪Main sites of visit≫
Saitama Prefecture, Saitama Industrial Promotion
Public Corp, Okubo Water Purification Plant, City of
Yokohama, Mansei Recycling Systems, Y-Port(Yokohama Partnership of Resources andTechnologies), Chodai Co., LTD.
August 2015 ： APPPI Conducted RDSP/PPPApplicability Study in North Surigao, thePhilippines:
APPPI
study
team
conducted
RDSP/PPP
Applicability Study in the Province of Surigao delNorte (North Surigao) from the late July to earlyAugust, 2015. This study aims at leading a solution
to lift the province, which is currently heavily
dependent on the mining industries operated byprivate sectors, from its current self-complacentsituation to making a step forward for moresustainable and future-directed development.
In the field study, APPPI study team visited the local
government offices in Taganito district and its
surrounding areas, where many mining companies
are operating, and proposed a set of conceptual
designs for sustainable development in the district.
Then, APPPI study team met with the governor of
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province and visited Siargao island, which is a
popular tourist destination for its beautiful beach.
November 2015： Students from University of
Malaysia, Sarawak, visited APPPI:APPPI received 14 students specializing resource
science and technology and engineering from
University of Malaysia, Sarawak, on November 4,
2015.

Presentation on RDSP study for Cebu

August 2015： The Delegation from Cebu visited
Saitama Prefecture, Yokohama City andJapanese Private Companies:
APPPI organized meetings and site tours for Cebu
Governor Hilario Davide III and officers from theprovince to visit Saitama prefecture, Yokohama cityand Japanese private companies. The main purpose
was to visit operational sites in the field of waste
management, disaster risk reduction/management,water purification management and some otherpublic private partnership (PPP) projects in Saitama
and Yokohama.
Governor Davide said: “Various types of economic
and social issues have emerged as economic growthand urbanization continue in Cebu. Advanced
Japanesetechnology
andtechnology-related
expertise accumulated in Japanese privatecompanies have a good suggestion: “how to
overcome the issues and attain further development
and prosperity".

University of Sarawak is a leading university in
Malaysia and has several projects in collaboration
with local governments in Japan for their research
activities.
Director of APPPI, Prof. Sam Tabuchi, provided alecture on practical use of Public Private Partnership(PPP) model as a tool of achieving “sustainable
development,” which is a keyword to successful
economic
growthContact
us: in Asia.
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Giving PPP lecture to students from Sarawak
University, Malaysia

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February 2016 ： APPPI Held a Basic PPP
Seminar in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam:
In February 2016, a 3-day short-term PPP seminar
was held in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. This is thethird-time seminar in Vietnam, followed by the past
two seminars in Hanoi, which were organized incollaboration with National University of Civil
Engineering (NUCE).

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This time, the seminar was held at the request ofVietnamese People’s Committee in Ho Chi Minh City
to provide basic PPP lectures for approximately 50
officials from the committee as well as the city. The
seminar consisted of 15 PPP-related lectures andworkshops aimed at deepening understanding of
PPP laws and regulations in Vietnam. The seminaralso included comparative PPP studies with those of
its neighboring countries such as Thai, Malaysia,
Indonesia and the Philippines and three case studiesof the actual PPP projects in the city.
A feedback from the participants of the seminar wasquite favourable, some of whom commented that
their understanding on PPP ideas and concepts wasdeepened since the issues on Vietnam’s existing
PPP rules and regulations were explained
comprehensively, which are considered important informulating variable PPP projects in an effective andefficient manner.

potential for development, Rubber City, Scienceand Technology Park, Public Transport (Airport
Highway and Port), Tourism, Agriculture and Halal
Business, and consolidated a proposal to promote
PPP-driven industrial development in the province.
In 2016, APPPI is scheduled to invite officials fromthe Kedah province and organize a presentation on
the result of the study in collaboration with Embassyof Malaysia in Japan, Malaysian Investment
Development Authority (MIDA) and Japan-Malaysia
Association. During the presentation, a business
opportunity seminar will be held and Japanesecompanies interested in starting business in
Malaysia invited to the seminar as well.

Singing of MOU with Kedah province,
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Malaysia

March 2015 ：APPPI Conducted PPPPreliminary Study in Indonesia in partnershipwith JICA
APPPI carried out a preliminary study in Indonesia
in collaboration with JICA in early March 2016. This
study aims to examine feasibility of the detailed
PPP applicability study targeting local governmentsof Indonesia, which will be conducted based on thecontract between APPPI and JICA in the summer of
2016. The terms of reference of the study are
expected to entail the following assignment:

Provision of PPP seminar completion
certificate to seminar participants

February 2016 ：APPPI Conducted
Applicable Study in Kedah, Malaysia:

PPP

APPPI study team carried out a RDSP/PPPApplicability Study in the Kedah province, in
Malaysia from February 14 to 19, 2016. This study
was organized by Dr. Ku Abd. Rahman whom Prof.
Sam Tabuchi, a head of APPPI, met in 2014business conference aimed at attracting Japanesecompanies to Kedah province through an invitationfrom Dr. Mahathir, leading to an actual visit of Prof.
Sam Tabuchi to the province. After his visit, basedon the agreed Minutes of Understanding (MOU) with
the Kedah province, the RDSP/PPP Applicability
Study was conducted in February 2016.
In terms of utilization of private sector’s expertise andknowhow, APPPI study team conducted an analysis
on six industrial sectors in the province which have a①APPPI studies possibilities of PPP application at
the level of local governments in Indonesia→Specification of regulations which likely become
an obstacle to apply PPP at a local level inpartnership with several universities in Indonesia
Contact us:②APPPI carries out a RDSP for local governmentsof Indonesia
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Kita-Kyushu
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sister city of Surabaya City in Indonesia, incompleting its Green Mater Plan for environmentallyconscious development of Surabaya City

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Obituary: Passing of
Chancellor Shiokawa

We are very sorry to inform you that Chancellor of Toyo University and the Honorary Advisor of
APPPI, Mr. Masajuro Shiokawa passed away on September 19, 2015. He was 93 years old.
While working with Toyo University for over past 20 years, Chancellor Shiokawa was a leading
national politician served as the Minister of Finance, Minister of Education, Minister of Local
Government Affairs and other key ministerial positons in the Japan’s Diet.
When the establishment of PPP Graduate School was suggested, Chancellor Shiokawa knew
from his national political career the importance of the public and private sectors working together
to pull Japan out of the long-running recession and achieve the sustainable national economic
growth. He understood the concept of PPP – public-private partnership and the needs of suchdevelopment for Japan. He has strongly supported for the establishment of the graduate school
serving Public-Private Partnership in 2006, believing that the graduate school in Toyo University
will be the global learning center of the PPP.
When APPPI – Asia PPP Institute was established in 2011 and needed the honorary advisors,
not only he accepted the position for APPPI but asked Dr. Mahathir of Malaysia (former prime
minister), who has been his close friend over 25 years, to join in the activities of APPPI.
Chancellor Shiokawa and Dr. Mahathir together attended the inauguration gathering to celebrate
the establishment of APPPI in 2011 (pictures below).
Chancellor Shiokawa’s was essential for the establishment as well as the early activities of
APPPI as the Honorary Advisor. We, all members of APPPI, herewith express our sincerest
condolences to Chancellor Shiokawa.

Chancellor Shiokawa with Dr. Mahathir
at the inauguration ceremony of APPPI(November 15, 2011)

Chancellor Shiokawa making a speechat the inauguration gathering of APPPI(November 15, 2011)

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APPPI’s Honorary Advisor
Dr. Mahathir joins in the Tenth
Annual International PPP Forum【APPPI’s Honorary Advisor Dr. Mahathirjoins the Tenth Annual International PPP
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Honorary Advisor of APPPI, Dr. Mahathir bin
Mohamad (former prime minister of Malaysia)
has participated in the Tenth Annual
International PPP Forum on August 4, 2015 asa keynote speaker along Mr. Shigeru Ishiba,
the Minister of State for the National StrategicSpecial Zones and Mr. Geoffrey Hamilton, theChief of the PPP Programme at UNECE(Geneva).
His remarks emphasized the importance of
PPP - public private partnership – as means ofbuilding national, regional and local economies
as he has utilized the concept of Malaysia Inc.
(copy of Japan Inc. for economic growth) todevelop his country’s economic development
as well as the use of PPP (mainly BOT) todevelop South – North Highway, Putrajaya,
Cyberjaya and other major national projects in
Malaysia. He learned of the Japan Inc. concept
when he studied the economic success ofJapan: public and private sectors working
together to build the national economy post
World War II. Therefore, as a prime minister of
Malaysia, he has developed “Look East Policy”
learning from the success of Japan as well as
Korea for the economic development of
Malaysia. He has stated that the use of private
sector, which has the development knowhow,
creativity, speed and the needed funds toimplement public projects faster and cheaper
than public sector was essential for the
economic success of Malaysia.
He has also introduced “Wawasan 2020” in
1991, which was 30 year development vision of
Malaysia’s economic growth to join in themember of the advanced nation by 2020.

Dr. Mahathir also participated in “the Dialogue
with Students” on August 4, celebrating the
Toyo University Selection as “Super Global
University - SGU” by the Ministry of Educationof Japan in the fall of 2015. He spoke to all
audience and has responded to the questions
from over 25 students not only from Toyo
University but also from other SGU universities
such as Sofia University, Rikkyo University,
Hosei University and Shibaura Institute ofTechnology.
The questions asked were on Asian economy,
political situation in Malaysia, Asian economic
balance with China growth, security issues,
growth in Asia with the needs of Japanese ofcivil engineers in the future as well as on the
career selection, personal life satisfaction andothers, which Dr. Mahathir has responded to allquestions with detail explanation one by one.
All students, who asked the questions and theaudience of the event, were very impressedwith his careful and thoughtful responses fromsuch a distinguished Asian leader.

Dr. Mahathir having a dialogue-style lecturewith the students (August 4, 2015)

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APPPI’ｓ Vision and Step Forward in 2016
Year of Further Growth as a Professional PPP institute in Asia

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APPPI’s Activity Plan in 2016

Date

APPPI Research/Study

April 2016

Start of RDSP/PPP Applicability Study in local
governments of Indonesia in collaboration with JICA

May

Follow-up Visit to Cebu and Manila, the Philippines

PPP Lecture（Directed to officials of
Ministry of Finance andprofessors of University of
Pretoria in South Africa）

June

Final Presentation on the result of RSDP in Kedah,
Malaysia, which is to be organized in partnershipwith Embassy of Malaysia in Japan, Malaysian
Investment Development Authority (MIDA) andJapan-Malaysia Association

APPPI Workshop (1st)AugustField Visit to Indonesia under RDSP/PPP Applicability
Study

September
October

APPPI Activity

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and/orPlan to start RDSP/PPP Applicability Study in Butuan,
the Philippines

APPPI Open Seminar (1st)
APPPI Workshop (2nd)NovemberInternational PPP Forum

December

APPPI Workshop (3rd)February
2017

March

Plan to visit Indonesia on study of Local Government
Units; and/orPlan to visit to Butuan, the Philippines, under
RDSP/PPP Applicability Study
APPPI Open Seminar(2nd)
APPPI Workshop (4th)Notice on modification of APPPI membership rules:
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