Publicly-backed Private Finance

Eurodad

Our Future is Public: Santiago Declaration for Public Services

#SantiagoDeclaration #PublicServices #PPPs #HistoryRePPPeatedII #DevelopmentFinance #DebtJustice 

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • PPPs
Mae Buenaventura

It’s Time to Move Away from Public-Private Partnerships & Build a Future That is Public

The rise of public-private partnerships (PPPs) has deeply affected the delivery of public services and infrastructure projects across the world. In this opinion piece, experts from Eurodad, Latindadd and APMDD highlight why we must move away from this failed model and promote public options to build a future that is public. 

By Océane Blavot (Eurodad), Rodolfo Bejarano (Latindadd), Mae Buenaventura (APMDD)

Read the full opinion piece on IPS News

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • PPPs
Eurodad

Our Future is Public: Santiago Declaration for Public Services

The Declaration is a momentous agreement signed by more than 200 organisations, including Eurodad, who vow to work to transform our systems to ones which value human rights and ecological sustainability over GDP growth and narrowly defined economic gains.

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • PPPs
Eurodad

New report exposes failure of public-private partnerships (PPPs)

#PPPs #DevelopmentFinance #COP27 #ClimateFinance #TaxJustice #Vacancies
  • Climate Finance

History RePPPeated II -
Why Public-Private Partnerships are not the solution

This is the second in a series of reports providing an in-depth analysis of various kinds of PPP projects through seven case studies across different sectors, such as education, health, transport and water, and in countries like India, Liberia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Scotland and Spain. It also analyses emerging trends, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and the multiple crises facing the world.

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance

Briefing: Reclaiming sustainable infrastructure as a public good

Infrastructure is key for achieving sustainable development and for improving the living conditions of people across the world, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement and commitments on gender equality. Building on our work with partners from the global north and south, this briefing provides a framing to understand sustainable infrastructure from a systemic perspective. 

This briefing is available in English, FrenchSpanish and Portuguese.

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • Infrastructure

Case studies: Reclaiming sustainable infrastructure as a public good

Case studies that accompany the report "Reclaiming sustainable infrastructure as a public good" published in English, Spanish and French.

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • Infrastructure
Flora Sonkin

Reclaiming sustainable infrastructure as a public good

Infrastructure is key to improving living conditions worldwide, but the current push to attract (often foreign) private finance to projects in the global south risks undermining development objectives. How can we reclaim sustainable infrastructure as a public good?

This report is available in English, SpanishFrench and Portuguese.

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • Infrastructure
Farwa Sial

The relentless quest to mobilise private investment in infrastructure: more de-risking is not the answer

While G7 leaders argue that they "aim for a step change" in their approach to infrastructure financing, a market-led approach is still at the heart of the G7’s plan to "build back better" for the world. In the following blog, María José Romero, Farwa Sial and Flora Sonkin analyse the proposals, the risks and an alternative way of thinking about infrastructure.

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • Infrastructure
Farwa Sial

Private Finance for a Post- Pandemic Africa? The Trouble with Macron’s New Africa Summit

The Summit on the Financing of African Economies convened by the French President, Emmanuel Macron last week was mostly a rhetorical exercise in supporting Africa’s post-pandemic recovery and resilience-building.

  • Publicly-backed Private Finance
  • Covid-19