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Reconceptualising Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in global public policy

World journal of entrepreneurship, management and sustainable development, 2018

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Public-private partnerships: Perspectives on purposes, publicness, and good governance

Public Administration and Development, 2011

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have long been advocated and analyzed as organizational solutions to pressing societal problems that call for the comparative advantages of government, business, and civil society. However, ongoing questions remain about how to design, manage, and assess PPPs. The large literature on PPPs suffers from conceptual imprecision, and is weakly integrated. This article seeks to address these problems. It offers a discussion of partnership definitions and builds a framework that examines the features of PPPs as they relate to achieving particular purposes: policy, service delivery, infrastructure, capacity building, and economic development. The article summarizes the contributions to the symposium: social enterprise PPPs that target poverty reduction, health service delivery partnerships with faith-based organizations, diasporas as partners for international development, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and the Better Factories Cambodia partnership. In examining cross-cutting themes, the analysis focuses on publicness and potential to promote international norms associated with good governance. Conclusions address the role of new partners in PPPs, the difficulties in finding a balance of interests and incentives among partners, the implications of embodying and promoting international good governance norms and values, the different sources of authority that operate within PPPs, and the trade-offs among PPPs' advantages. 1 We recognize that the concept of publicness involves a significant degree of complexity, where the relevant considerations are not either-or determinations (for example, public-private, individual-communal, state-market), but questions of relative degree (see Pesch, 2005). spread and implementation of global norms and liberal values, such as human rights, good governance, and the 'freedoms' associated with economic development . These are the dual focuses of this symposium issue and the individual articles that comprise it.

Conceptual Issues in Defining Public Private Partnerships (PPPs

2009

This paper aims to explore the conceptual issues associated with defining Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). There are different definitions for PPPs in the literature on the subject. PPPs are viewed from different angles. These include as a way of managing and governing organisations, as an institutional arrangement for financial relationship, as a development strategy, and also as a language game. The review of different definitions indicates that there is no precise agreed definition of PPP. However, there are common features across the different approaches as well as distinctive features. Several gaps have been identified related to issues of governance, management and policy design of PPPs. This paper offers some suggestions relating to different conceptual issues which emerge in defining PPPs.

Public-Private Partnerships in Education : Exploring Different Models and Policy Options

2016

Partnerships with the private sector for the construction of school facilities and related infrastructures. A well-documented example of this type of PPP can be found in the UK Public Finance Initiatives (PFIs). In PFIs, private entities assume the cost of the building and refurbishment of an education facility, and local authorities return this cost as a loan. The PFI system was applied not only to the education sector, but also to a number of other areas, such as the health, housing, and communications sectors. Many Academies (a sort of charter school program) were built under PFI schemes in England and Wales (Gunter, 2010).  Education-industry partnerships: These are types of PPPs that are increasingly present in vocational training (e.g., dual TVET systems) and in universities (e.g., knowledge transfer policies with the corporate sector). Here, the German dual TVET stands out. This model, which has gained increasing international traction, combines apprenticeships in a company and vocational education at a vocational school in the same academic course. For its execution, a partnership between the government and the companies involved needs to be formally established (Langthaler, 2015).  Multi-stakeholder partnerships: This third typology of PPPs are "defined as the pooling and managing of resources, as well as the mobilization of competencies and commitments by public, business and civil society partners to contribute to expansion and quality of education" (Draxler, 2008, p. 31). This type of partnership usually consists of joint initiatives established between governments and international organizations and the private sector, including private corporations and foundations. The Global Partnership for Education and the Global Knowledge Partnership are some of the most paradigmatic examples of this type of arrangement internationally.  PPPs for the delivery of core schooling services: These are partnerships in which the state contracts the private sector to deliver education in different levels. Within this fourth modality, the private sector can be contracted to provide education under several formats: subsidized private education (e.g., Australia, Argentina, Spain), private operation of public schools (e.g., U.S. charter schools, Colombian colegios en concesión), or school vouchers (e.g., Chile, Milwaukee) being the most well-known schemes of public financing and private provision.

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs): Potential Impacts and Critical Success Factors

HAPSc Policy Briefs Series, 2021

In recent years, PPPs have been increasingly used to implement projects and provide public services. The governments have made the necessary legislative and financial efforts in order to promote PPPs, given the need to acquire know-how from the private sector and the advantages they bring to the public sector and the citizens. However, the use of PPPs should be carefully planned as, in addition to the wider social and economic impacts, failures and negative results have been observed. This article attempts to present the main characteristics of PPPs, cite their possible impacts and quote their critical success factors in order to make PPPs more beneficial for the involved parties and the citizens.