The Public–Private Partnership of the Philippines (PPP Center) has awarded the Transaction Advisory Services for the PPP for School Infrastructure Project, Phase IV (Project) to the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

The Public-Private Partnership for School Infrastructure Project Phase 4 (PSIP-IV) is the latest installment in the Philippine Department of Education's (DepEd) series of PPP initiatives aimed at addressing the country's massive classroom shortage, which stands at around 165,000 as of early 2025. Building on the success of prior phases—such as PSIP-I, which delivered over 9,000 disaster-resilient classrooms across Luzon regions to benefit 400,000 students—PSIP-IV forms part of an ambitious scaling plan to construct up to 30,000 additional classrooms nationwide. Listed on the PPP Center's project dashboard, it involves collaboration between DepEd and private sector partners for the design, financing, construction, and maintenance of school buildings under a build-lease-transfer model, allowing faster delivery, improved quality, and efficient resource use compared to traditional government procurement. Recently added to the national PPP pipeline alongside projects like Metro Manila Waste-to-Energy, PSIP-IV supports broader goals of universal basic education and digitalization, with potential job creation and benefits for hundreds of thousands of learners, though specific details on sites, costs (likely in the tens of billions of pesos), timelines, and private bidders remain under development as of September 2025. This phase underscores the government's renewed push for PPPs to bridge infrastructure gaps and foster a competitive education system.