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Creating a sustainable health diagnostics network for low income populations...
Mother and baby in Jharkhand of India Credit: Video Volunteers PPPs are all about balance: maintaining equilibrium between public and private, risk and reward, cost and impact. Understanding this...
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The usual suspects: mitigating risks in African public-private partnerships
Every infrastructure development project has its Casablanca moment, when the authority shows up and asks his men to “round up the usual suspects.” Instead of launching into a murder investigation,...
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How public-private partnerships can play a constructive role in global...
With 2015 firmly behind us, it’s time to reflect on the past year’s global economic trends -- while looking forward at the challenges and opportunities facing countries around the world. Check out the...
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A PPP Encore in Brazil: Two healthcare partnerships boost Bahia’s ability to...
Sometimes, the most persuasive case for a PPP is the success of a past partnership in the same sector . That’s been true in the State of Bahia, Brazil, following the Hospital do Suburbio project,...
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Transparency, efficiency and quality in infrastructure projects is only a...
Transparency. Efficiency. Quality. If you work with infrastructure projects, as I do, these are words you will hear all the time. Unfortunately, these concepts are familiar to us because so many...
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Ghana’s e-government public-private partnership and the value of long-term...
Credit: OER Africa Most African countries have realized the importance of private investment and are experimenting with private sector partnerships for the construction, maintenance, and/or operation...
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10 candid career questions with PPP professionals – Marcos Siqueira Moraes
Editor's Note: Welcome to the “10 Candid Career Questions” series, introducing you to the PPP professionals who do the deals, analyze the data, and strategize on the next big thing. Each of them...
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No more “business as usual” in Benin’s water sector
As countries consider how to meet their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), creating water supply services that are more sustainable – with investments that are longer-lasting – is a high priority....
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Regional integration as a risk management tool for Southeast Asian countries
Coauthored with Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Infrastructure Economist at the World Bank Group and Ruth Schuyler House, Consultant, the World Bank Group Night in Bangkok, Thailand Credit: Mike Behnken /...
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10 candid career questions with PPP professionals – John Kjorstad
Editor's Note: Welcome to the “10 Candid Career Questions” series, introducing you to the PPP professionals who do the deals, analyze the data, and strategize on the next big thing. Each of them...
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Public-Public Partnerships vs. Public-Private Partnerships
Public sector organizations seek constantly to improve the Economic and Social Value Equation. The Economic and Social Value Equation is represented by: Increasingly, improvements to this equation...
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Financial Viability Support: Global Efforts to Create Commercially Viable PPPs
Credit: Paul Carmona The story of infrastructure financing revolves around varying infrastructure needs—from basic to complex, interconnected infrastructure. And as this narrative develops, it’s...
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10 tips for implementing a public to public partnership (P2P)
In my last post, I proposed that economic and social value from Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can be improved significantly if the public sector can identify and exploit the potential to create...
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Small public-private partnerships: inevitable and essential
Local governments are under pressure to provide more and better services. But in most cases, they cannot do this alone. An examination of the World Bank Group’s PPI database and the PPP databases of...
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Small public-private partnerships, long reach
A consensus among infrastructure practitioners is that public-private partnerships (PPPs) help countries to bridge the infrastructure gap. But what kind of infrastructure is required to fill the gap?...
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Examining public-private partnership projects through a gender lens
©IFPRI/Milo Mitchell Investment in infrastructure services in emerging economies is key to tackling extreme poverty and enhancing shared prosperity. Achieving gender equality is equally important if we...
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5 ways public-private partnerships can promote gender equality
Credit: Arne Hoel From my corner of the World Bank, the development objective of promoting gender equality can seem vague or unrelated to what we do. We can give three cheers for our colleagues who...
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10 candid career questions with PPP professionals – Isabel Chatterton
Editor's Note: Welcome to the “10 Candid Career Questions” series, introducing you to the PPP professionals who do the deals, analyze the data, and strategize on the next big thing. Each of them...
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In search of new ideas on public-private partnerships and water-loss reduction
Chris Shugart is prize manager for the Dreampipe Challenge. Credit: Asian Development Bank Two questions worth debating are whether we might soon see a renaissance in public private partnerships...
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Measuring success in lives saved: A pioneering health partnership in Bangladesh
Photo: Abir Abdullah/ADB For millions of people throughout the world, a diagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease ushers in a lifetime of dialysis treatments. A dialysis session lasts four hours, and is...
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