Taming the Terra Incognita of PPPs: The case for data as an exploration tool
This article is from Handshake Issue #17: Data.
The PPP territory spans the globe, and the debate over its effectiveness as a financing tool to achieve development goals reaches equally far and wide.
Most recently, this debate was revived by the discussion about the post-2015 development agenda. One of the targets of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals is to “Encourage and promote effective public, public-private, and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.” If PPPs are to play an important role in the development agenda, the scale of PPP investments has to increase significantly. The scale-up will be successful only if projects are procured, managed, and regulated well.
