Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)

There is a growing interest among DCED member agencies in public-private partnerships (PPP) as a means to leverage private sector resources and achieve developmental goals in cost-effective ways. Meanwhile, business leaders are increasingly interested in social and developmental issues. They are often willing to invest their own resources in initiatives that would have developmental outcomes while achieving commercial goals.

On this page you can find information about the Bilateral Donors' Statement on PPPs and links to the following sub-pages:

• Publications and Event Reports on PPPs and Inclusive Business: Studies and reports related to public-private partnerships.
  
• Information about PPP programmes of DCED Member agencies: More than 40 PPP-style programmes and initiatives of DCED member agencies - plus a summary of existing forms of collaboration and partnership criteria.
  
• Practical Tools for Practitioners of PPPs and Inclusive Business: An inventory for both donor agencies and the private sector, listing tools and guides for different partnership phases.
  
• Signposting for Businesses interested in a PPP or Adopting Inclusive Business Models: Allows a search of all programmes by type of partnership or support, or by target regions and countries. It also gives quick links to programme information and contact persons within the agencies.
  

On our Success Stories page you can also find case studies of business contributions to development and public-private-partnerships which report impact on employment and incomes at scale. Most of the PPP programmes featured so far provided financial support to private sector investments; one provided advice. 

_{Photograph courtesy of Martin Edstroem.}