Philippines PPP Center's Executive Director Cosette V. Canilao has announced that the government has plans to approve 8 public private partnersho (PPP) projects before the year end.According to Canilao, the Inter-Agency Investment Coordination Committee-Cabinet Committee (ICC-CabCom) had met to discuss about six PPP  projects, which have a total investment estimated at P633.21 billion (US$14.16 million). The projects are the following:

• Vehicle Inspection System (MVIS). The total project investment is estimated at P19.30 billion (US$431.5 million).

• Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX). The total project investment is estimated at P35.42 billion (US$791.9 million).

• Manila-Makati-Pasay-Parañaque Mass Transit System. The total project investment is estimated at P374.5 billion (US$8.37 billion).

• NLEX-SLEX connector road project. The total project investment is estimated at P25.6 billion (US$572.3 million).

• North-South Commuter Railway (South Line). The total project investment is estimated at P177.22 billion (US$3.85 billion).

• Civil Registry System-IT Project (Phase II). The total project investment is estimated at P1.161 billion (US$25.9 million).

The two other projects that are expected to be approved by the end of the year are the LRT Line 1 Dasmariñas extension and the redevelopment, operation and maintenance of the Ninoy Aquino International Aiport (NAIA). For these two projects the total investment has not been estimated.

Eight PPP projects have been awarded under the government's flagship infrastructure PPP program, so far:

• Daang Hari-South Luzon Expressway Link Road;
• Ninoy Aquino International Airport Expressway;
• First phase of the PPP for School Infrastructure Project (PSIP);
• PSIP's second phase;
• Philippine Orthopedic Center modernization;
• Automatic Fare Collection System;
• Mactan-Cebu International Airport Passenger Terminal Building; and
• LRT Line 1 Cavite Extension Operation & Maintenance.

Eight others have been rolled out:

• Philippine airport package PPP project;
• Integrated Transport System (ITS) Project-Southwest Terminal;
• ITS Project-South Terminal;
• Bulacan Bulk Water Supply Project;
• New Centennial Water Source Project;
• LRT Line 2 Operations and Maintenance (O&M) PPP project;
• Cavite and Laguna (CALA) Expressway PPP project;
• Laguna Lakeshore expressway and dike PPP project