About Partnership International, Inc.
Celebrating our 23 Years of Service:

Partnership International, Inc. (PI), founded in 1990, is an international consulting firm that provides regulatory, institutional, technical, commercial and financial advice to clients on projects that promote sustainable development through infrastructure investments. We are recognized for delivering pragmatic, market-driven solutions for our public and private clients across multiple industries and sectors. Through our offices in Washington, DC, and in the field, our staff targets meaningful sectoral reforms to stimulate sustainable economic growth in developing and emerging markets worldwide.

Partnership International provides consulting services in the following areas:

Sectors: Energy & Environment: renewable energy, energy efficiency, power grids, rural electrification, climate change, environmental and social impact assessment. ICT: information technology, telecom, post & postal banking, and knowledge management. Transportation: ports, airports, roads, and transportation security. Public-Private Sector Collaboration: business & trade development and international collaboration towards poverty reduction and economic growth. Service Solutions: Sector Reform & Development: policy & regulatory reform, market assessments, institutional & enterprise restructuring, process reengineering, public-private partnership models. Economic & Financial Analysis: economic analysis, financial modeling, project financing, business planning & strategy. Project Management: capacity building, socio-economic development strategies, outreach and public awareness, monitoring & evaluation.

Partnership International Worldwide:

Partnership International works in partnership with internationally seasoned senior professionals. Partnership International is composed of senior partners and technical advisors with in-depth experience in creating the necessary regulatory, institutional and economic environment to promote public and private investments in infrastructure projects. Our professional staff is multicultural and multilingual with extensive overseas experience. Partnership International consultants have worked for Fortune 500 companies, the World Bank, the UNDP, the U.S. Government, and other distinguished employers. Partnership International includes experts with extensive contacts with government ministries, donor agencies, financial institutions and local entities worldwide. While providing country-specific solutions, Partnership International is a distinctively international consulting firm in its structure, its staffing and its competencies.

Partnership International's Sustainable Development & Market-Oriented Approach:

Partnership International works closely with private clients, government agencies, multilateral organizations and bilateral donors in creating the necessary regulatory, institutional and economic frameworks to promote investments in vital infrastructure projects that promote economic growth, social development, eliminate poverty and create jobs. We believe in establishing a strong local presence as the key to our success in addressing the requirements of our clients. In doing so, we work closely with local partners in developing and proposing best-practice market-driven solutions which address the internal vision of the country, while ensuring an international perspective with market-place efficiencies.

Partnership International, History & Founding Board:

Founded in 1990, under the direction of Sargent R. Shriver (founder and first Director of the Peace Corps, US Ambassador to France, and founder of the Job Corps), the mission of Partnership International is to promote international collaboration between people for a better world. Partnership International's projects and mission has slightly changed over the years, but continues to reflect the same vision of Sargent Shriver. We aim to provide assistance between nations and their people for a better world by giving people the infrastructure needed to make their world better. Based on his brother-in-law John F. Kennedy's famous statement: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country;" Partnership International has taken this statement a step further by extending it beyond nations, and asking all citizens of the world to give a helping hand to improve our collective future.

Partnership International, Sustainable Development:

Global Micro-grid Resource Portal - Sustainable Energy for All, UN Foundation

In support of the UN Foundation’s effort for ‘Sustainable Energy for All,’ Partnership International (PI) is helping to develop a comprehensive database of global micro-grids that enhances the global communications and information sharing. Partnership International, working with the UN Foundation Mini/Micro-Grid Working Group, has taken the lead in this effort. Together with this consortium of NGOs and private micro-grid related companies, PI is developing a global Microgrid Resource Portal and database that will map the location of different micro-grid projects and the technical, legal, financial aspects of these developments around the world. The project aims to provide alternative micro-grid models of electrification in developing countries, where the provision of electricity from the national grids is neither available nor stable. Each micro-grid site catalogued in the database will provide key information on its financing, technology, regional particularities and impact. All catalogued information will be searchable, providing valuable information on micro-grid barriers to success, how they have been overcome, and best practices.
See more at: > Re-Source.net

Solutions of Solar in a Box (SOSolar Boxes), Haiti Partnership International aims to assist the Haitian relief efforts by providing "Solutions of Solar in a Box" (SOS Box). > SOSolar Boxes Info

What's New:

BAPPENAS/KfW - Geothermal Investment Database, Indonesia
PI is providing technical assistant to the Government of Indonesia to effectively plan and coordinate public and private investments in the geothermal sector. Our Technical, ICT, Financial and Legal Advisors are assisting BAPPENAS in developing an action plan to mobilization geothermal investments. Our objective is to develop an Investment Database to provide support to the planning and execution of geothermal projects and to accelerate the development of geothermal-based power (both greenfields and brownfields). The Geothermal Investment Database will be collaboratively developed with BAPPENAS staff to help attract public and private financing and to support the coordination of this effort among ministries, departments, local government authorities as well as public and private financing institutions.

USTDA - Hydropower Development, Angola Partnership International is conducting an Electricity Distribution Rehabilitation and Hydropower Development in Angola to prepare two Master Plans for the rehabilitation and expansion of the electricity distribution networks in the cities of Cuchi and Luena, and perform Pre-Feasibility studies for two mini-hydroelectric projects, Kaquima and Chafinda, located near these cities.

USTDA - MENA Geothermal, West Bank
Partnership International is working with MENA Geothermal in the West Bank to help develop a geothermal heating and cooling project design, feasibility and implementation plan. The PI team aims to assist MENA Geothermal to develop a sustainable, bankable business plan for implementing Geothermal “GeoExchange” systems in the region. MENA has developed an advanced GeoExchange system adapted to local conditions with some specialty local supplies. Our team is reviewing the feasibility, regulatory, economic, financial, environmental and social aspect of this USTDA-funded proposed GeoExchange system study.

World Bank - West & Central Africa Air Transport Safety & Security Program, Nigeria
PI is carrying out a training needs study and assessment aimed at assisting the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to develop the Nigerian Airspace to a level consistent with the requirements of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). To that end, NAMA retained the services of Partnership International to recommend ways in which NAMA can create a training-management model that best reflects its goals and objectives while providing efficient, effective and economical training and development activities for its employees.

Renewable Energy & Tariffs Incentives, Pakistan
Partnership International is presently working with National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) by reviewing tariff practices of various energy technologies as they relate to Renewable Energy (RE) and are proposing suitable modifications/changes in the tariff determination process to help promote the development of RE in Pakistan. Our consultants are assessing tariff guidelines, renewable projects, licenses agreement, subsidies incorporated, environmental considerations, etc. Our team aims to enhance the overall renewable energy sector strategies, which in turn will help create a favorable business and trade environment for renewable energy development to better utilize indigenous renewable energy sources such as biomass, bio-fuels, solar, geothermal, hydro and wind.

InterSolar: Emerging Solar Markets
Partnership International Inc. presented at the 2009 InterSolar North America (www.intersolar.us). The conference comprise 25 sessions with more than 150 speakers with over 60,000 trade visitors. Partnership International presentation “Tools for Success: Best Practice for Emerging Markets” was targeted to assist international decision-makers interested in promoting solar energy in emerging markets. The presentation covered the three key areas in which regulatory, technical and financial structures best suit the particular needs of each regions.
> InterSolar Presentation

GEF/World Bank: GeoFund Geothermal Workshop, Turkey Partnership International, Inc. in partnership with the International Geothermal Association (IGA) received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the implementation of region wide technical assistance as part of the Geothermal Energy Development Program (GeoFund), and hosted the International Geothermal Workshop to help develop geothermal development in the Europe Central Asia (ECA) Region.
> Geothermal Workshop