PPP Units Around the World

• International and Regional Organizations

  • United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
  • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
  • International Project Finance Association
  • European PPP Expertise Centre
  • European Institute of Public Administration
  • European Investment Bank
  • Southern African Development Community (SADC) Public-Private Partnership Network

Listed below are a selection of countries with PPP units and links to those units (or, if such links are not available, to the ministry hosting the PPP unit). 

 Further Reading and Resources

• Legal & Institutional Frameworks in Africa: A comparative analysis, African Legal Support Facility, 2024.
• Establishing and Reforming PPP Units - Analysis of EPEC Member PPP Units and lessons learnt, European Expertise Centre (EPEC), August 2014.
• Overview of the PPP Legal and Institutional Frameworks in the Western Balkans, European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), July 2014.
• Serbia - PPP Units and Related Institutional Framework, European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), June 2014.
• PPP Units and Programmes in Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), April 2014. This publication presents a list of PPP Units and Task Forces active in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Portugal - PPP Units and Related Institutional Framework, European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), January 2014.
• United Kingdom/England - PPP Units and Related Institutional Framework, European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), June 2012.
• France - PPP Units and Related Institutional Framework, European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), May 2012.
• Moving Forward on Public Private Partnerships: U.S. and International Experience with PPP Units, by Emilia Istrate and Robert Puentes, Brookings Institution, December 2011.
• Dedicated Public-Private Partnership Units: A Survey of Institutional and Governance Structures (Les Unités Consacrées aux Partenariats Public-Privé: Une Étude des Structures Institutionnelles et de Gouvernance), Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) 2010 (English and French).
• Designing and Using Public-Private Partnership Units in Infrastructure - Lessons from Case Studies around the World by Apurva Sanghi, Alex Sundakov, and Denzel Hankinson, Gridlines No. 27, Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) September 2007.
• Public-Private Partnership Units - What Are They and What Do They Do? Public Policy for the Private Sector Note 311, World Bank, September 2006.