Mini Forum 4: PPP and Financing SSC

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) plays an important role in sharing successful solutions and innovations. As such, PPP has been increasingly recognized as an effective mechanism to manage complex development challenges and move forward in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 

The document The Future We Want: Outcome Document Adopted at Rio+20 specifically describes UN Member States’ stance on the strengths of public-private partnerships to enhance capacities and technologies that foster sustainable development. Strengths and contributions include (a) sharing sustainable practices in various economic sectors; (b) enhancing knowledge and capacity to integrate disaster risk reduction and resilience into development plans; (c) supporting North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation for the transition to a resource efficient economy.

This Mini Forum will present selected small and medium-scale projects using PPP as a modality for scaling up solutions across the global South, including some innovative projects on education, infrastructure and environment from regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.  It will also present some forms of financing schemes that could help support financing capacity building through South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation. It will showcase various successful PPPs initiatives between South-South or triangular stakeholders that have resulted in replicable models of environmentally sustainable development.

Harnessing business resources and competencies to support the UN internationally agreed goals, including MDGs, the Mini Forum will demonstrate how working together to address global issues is critical to long-term stability, business success and environmental sustainability.