Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  The Provisional Programme of the 8 th edition of the UNECE International PPP Forum .   The 3-day hybrid event – with in-person and online participation – will be held at the Conrad Istanbul Bosphorus Hotel in Istanbul, Türkiye, from 8 to 10 May 2024 , and is co-organised with the Government of Türkiye. The organizers encourage you to participate in person where possible. This year’s Forum will look at the role of Public-Private Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals (PPPs for the SDGs) by accelerating SDG implementation and climate action with a focus on the contribution of PPPs and infrastructure finance to sustainable recovery, resilience, and reconstruction. The Forum will bring together representatives of governments, the private sector, academia, civil society organizations, international financial institutions, and other stakeholders to discuss inter-alia the following topics: 1.    Climate-resili...

Thanks for inviting me to join this panel on the UNECE  proposed   Impact Assessment Tool to Score PPP Projects  and I am so sorry I can’t be there in person but I’m at another UN workshop in New York on the Lessons Learnt from the 1 st cycle of the High-Level Political Forum. I will draw some of this presentation from my soon to published new book (June 2019) Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear written with an-Gustav Strandenaes, Carolina Duque Chopitea, Minu Hemmati, Susanne Salz, Bernd Lakemeier, Laura Schmitz, and Jana Borkenhagen. Advance orders here. This year will be critical to re-adjusting our activities in light of the first Heads of State review of the 2030 Agenda forSustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda for Financing forDevelopment. There is no question we are behind the curve as far as delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals . The key outcome in September must be to give a roadmap to the mi...

What follows is a Civil Society Manifesto on  PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (PPPs) We, 151 national, regional and international civil society organisations, trade unions and citizens’ organisations from 45 countries, are increasingly alarmed by the growing use of PPPs around the world What is a ‘Public Private Partnership?’ PPPs are essentially long-term contracts, underwritten by government guarantees, under which the private sector builds (and sometimes runs) major infrastructure projects or services traditionally provided by the state, such as hospitals, schools, roads, railways, water, sanitation and energy. PPPs are promoted by many G20 governments, and some public development banks – such as the World Bank – as the solution to the shortfall in financing needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Since the late 1990s, some countries including the United Kingdom, Portugal and Hungary have embraced PPPs ranging from healthcare and education to transport – with t...