In the course of our activities over the years, the Commission has undertaken basic and intermediate PPP trainings for over 3,000 civil servants across the Federation – outside the one-off presentations to heads of Institutions. In Q1 of 2O20 and prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, we delivered 5 PPP capacity building programs with averagely 30 persons per session; which is about 150 people. For external PPP training - the Commission in collaboration with the World Bank, facilitated the foundation PPP global certification (CP3P) for about 65 Nigerian government practitioners in the different MDAs in 2017: 32 from ICRC and 33 from other MDAs. In addition to having an MoU with the IP3 (Arlington, Washington), the Commission has sponsored so many of her staff to IP3 courses, within Nigeria and in the US.  In 2018 we had a dedicated IP3 training attended by over 120 persons. Many Nigerians including ICRC staff also have attended the Australia Aid PPP program in SA and Sydney. We also hosted a training for 100 people with IP3 in 2018. In 2019, we started the Strengthening Women Participation in PPP (SWIP3) program with the support of AusAid. In 2019, and in order to expand PPP experience sharing in the road sector; the Commission in association with FERMA, DBSA (South Africa) and SANRAL (South Africa) held a South Africa - Nigeria knowledge sharing workshop on road PPPs which was attended by over 200 participants and South African road concessionaires.

To institutionalize PPP capacity building, the ICRC obtained approval and incorporated the Nigeria Institute of Infrastructure and Public Private Partnership (NII3P), a non-profit organization, limited by guarantee. The Institute is the full-time capacity building arm of the ICRC. The purpose of the Institute is to capacitate public and private sector PPP practitioners with world class skills for developing, procuring and implementing bankable PPPs.

The Commission intends to use the NII3P as a major vehicle for accelerating overall efforts at putting in place requisite capacity to develop and take bankable PPP projects to market in order to rapidly close Nigeria's Infrastructure deficit. The NII3P is expected to be manned by ICRC staff and requiring little additional spending in the face of dwindling resources and mounting needs

In May 2020, the Commission notified the public that the NII3P has commenced operations and is expected to grow to meet our national PPP capacity building needs in order to upscale Nigeria’ infrastructure stock. NII3P aims at being the best in Africa; and as a result, we will also gradually step into the bigger global picture, with other trainings, certifications, etc. In order to start up, the NII3P currently operates from the ICRC Office in Garki Abuja, with Dr. Amanze Okere as the Coordinator under the supervision of a Board of Directors chaired by the Director General. We thank and recognise the Corporate Affairs Commission, the Federal Ministries of Justice and Education for their support and approvals.