The Public Lighting (ALP in spanish) is a lighting service that is generally provided by the municipalities to their inhabitants in the streets, passageways, avenues, public parks, and other spaces of road or pedestrian circulation, in order to provide visibility and safety required to carry out their activities adequately at night and / or in dark areas or places.

The management and financing of Public Lighting projects requires efficient contracting modalities given the high impact of this type of investment on people’s lives, on the functioning of cities, and in the last two decades on citizen security. A management and financing modality that has been increasingly developed in the last 15 years is public-private partnerships (PPPs). For this, specific legal frameworks have been created both at the federal and state levels in Mexico, and also in the rest of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The ALP is highly adaptable and desirable so that modernization, replacement, replacement, construction, maintenance and operation projects promoted by municipalities and sub-national governments are developed through PPPs.

In this sense, this document seeks to guide the analysis and structuring of Public Lighting projects through PPP schemes with a direct application to the case of Mexico, but perfectly adaptable to the rest of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.