Guest Blog: Public private partnerships undermine gender equality and women's rights
Guest blog by: Maria Jose Romero is policy and advocacy manager at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) This was originally published on Public Finance International . The goal of private companies taking on public services is not the empowerment of women but delivering for their shareholders, says Eurodad's Maria Jose Romero. Public-private partnerships are being actively promoted by donor governments and international financial institutions as a mechanism to fund social services and infrastructure projects around the world. PPPs are agreements where private sector companies replace the state as providers of traditional public services and infrastructure, such as health and education, transport, energy, and water and sanitation. With today being International Women’s Day and the next session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women fast approaching, now is the time to unpack how PPPs impact gender equality and women’s rig...