Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE SDGs IMPLEMENTATION? There is a lot of discussion about the role of PPPs being used to advance the implementation of the SDGs. This report should inform that discussion and the need for a set of Principles and Guidelines to be developed by the UN Finance for Development Forum for the promotion of the use of PPPs for implementing the SDGs. The work of UNECE in this area is a first step but it needs to be a system wide approach. How can it be that the same governments that are supporting the development of Principles for PPPs in the UNECE are opposing the development of them at the UN in New York? A BOUT THE AUDIT The ECA assessed whether EU-funded Public Private Partnerships (PPP) projects had been effectively managed and provided adequate value for money, account being taken of the trend towards more intensively leveraging public funds with private finance through PPPs. The auditors assessed 12 EU co-financed PPPs in France, Greece, Ireland and Spain ...

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...