Understanding promises and main issues related to public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing countries: companion report to “Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to address the challenges of the Covid-19 crisis in North Africa”

Abstract

The present report is a companion paper to the report “Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to address the challenges of the Covid-19 crisis in North Africa” by ECA- North Africa. It presents more extensively PPPs and their key success factors. Only the first two tend to be considered as public-private partnerships (PPPs), but the last one is also permitting cooperation between the government and private entities and might bring value to provide public services of good quality. The first and obvious promise of PPPs is to attract new funds in order to finance infrastructures and public services. Clearly, North African countries are characterized by an investment shortage that was preexisting the Covid19 crisis. In developing countries more broadly, approximately one billion people lack access to electricity, 2.4 billion people, about one third of the world population, are using unimproved sanitation facilities, and 660 million lack access to an improved water source. In Africa, more than 3 trillion $ that is needed in order to meet SDGs.