Work we’ve done for a better world

Castalia trained Uruguay government officials on managing PPP contracts for education facilities. The Government of Uruguay needed to build capacity after signing the country’s first education PPP ... Read more

Castalia carried out a stocktake of New Zealand’s stormwater infrastructure and wrote an issues paper that described the complexity of stormwater management across the country. New Zealand’s local government lacked an updated stocktake of their stormwater infrastructure which impeded their ... Read more

Castalia worked with the Government of the Solomon Islands to set up a PPP Center of Excellence and pipeline of projects. The Government had identified PPPs as an important additional procurement and financing method to address the infrastructure deficit, but ... Read more

Castalia provided an independent opinion to the New South Wales Government and Parliament on the adequacy of the powers of the new Electricity Price Commissioner. The Government promised that a planned electricity privatization would not increase electricity prices, but there ... Read more

Castalia helped a private equity firm identify organizations able to provide viability gap funding for 46 MW biomass plant in Côte d’Ivoire. The government of Côte d’Ivoire’s expectations for the tariff to be paid for power from the biomass plant ... Read more

Castalia identified a set of 15 first-mover PPP projects across 6 sectors from the Government of Kenya’s existing PPP pipeline and new candidate projects. We trained government officials on PPP project preparation, evaluation, and coordination processes. Despite an improved framework ... Read more

Castalia wrote Linking Up: Public-Private Partnerships in Power Transmission in Africa, a guide to enabling private finance of electricity transmission infrastructure in Africa. Reliance on public finance had constrained investment in power transmission, with the result that electricity was more ... Read more

Castalia developed policies requiring firms exporting natural gas from Papua New Guinea to also supply on-shore customers, and to allow other firms to access their pipelines. While PNG’s natural gas export business was flourishing, local customers could not access gas, ... Read more