Wapp seeks PPP adviser

The West African Power Pool (Wapp) is seeking a public-private partnership (PPP) adviser, with funding from the US Agency for International Development as part of US President Barack Obama’s Power Africa Initiative. The contract will be based in Cotonou and will last for three years, with a six-month probation period. Wapp is increasingly looking at establishing special purpose vehicles to develop projects on a PPP basis, to get round individual states’ problems attracting large amounts of finance. Applications are due by 19 September.