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ARTICLE · 12 OCTOBER 2026

Structuring Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) In Iraq

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Iraq's infrastructure needs far exceed its oil-funded federal budget, making Public-Private Partnerships an attractive solution for power, water, hospitals, and transport projects. Yet without a comprehensive PPP statute, structuring bankable projects requires navigating fragmented legal frameworks, uncertain budgetary authority, and complex approval chains that determine whether signed contracts become operational realities.

IraqGovernment, Public Sector
Mohammed Koperly
Mohammed Koperly
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Power, water, hospitals, transport and municipal services in Iraq all compete for a federal budget that remains overwhelmingly oil-funded. Public-Private Partnerships in Iraq are therefore attractive in principle, whether as BOT structures, availability-payment projects or management contracts for existing assets. The obstacle to Iraq PPP projects is rarely appetite; it is legal architecture.

The Current PPP Landscape

Federal Iraq has no comprehensive PPP statute. A federal PPP bill received a first reading in Parliament in 2022 and was resubmitted by the government in 2025. At the time of writing, we have not identified an enacted text in the Official Gazette, and its status should be confirmed before any project relies on it.

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