Establishing Public Private Partnerships

In a new conference proceedings report co-published with the World Bank, analyst Kristoffer Nilaus Tarp and two external experts, analyse and document lessons learned from establishing Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in countries in the Global South.

The authors argue that South-South cooperation should play a critical role in exchanging relevant experiences and resources when countries from the Global South develop PPP regimes. DIIS conducts research into South-South Cooperation (SSC) under a project funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the embassy in Pretoria, South Africa. The authors document experiences from India, Kenya and South Africa and identify a range of critical “building blocks” for establishing successful PPPs drawing on a seminar held in May 2015.

To support South-South knowledge exchanges in the area of PPP, the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar (RGoZ) and the World Bank, in collaboration with DIIS, organised a seminar designed to connect and establish a network among African and Asian countries working with PPPs. To span countries at different stages of their ‘PPP evolution’ the seminar in brought together representatives from India, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Zanzibar. The seminar focused on sharing lessons learned from positive and negative PPP experiences alike, and on identifying good practices.