May 2018

I had the change to be a respondent to the revised People First Principles for Public-Private Partnerships for achieving the SDGs at the UNECE meeting in May in Geneva. “Scaling up: Meeting the challenges of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through people-first Public-Private Partnerships”. A full copy of my speech is available here. 

The Principles:

Principle 1: Projects and Action Plans

Principle 2: Capacity Building

Principle 3: Improving Legal frameworks for People-first PPPs

Principle 4: Transparency and Accountability

Principle 5: Risk and de-risking

Principle 6: Procurement: Promoting, Value for People

Principle 7: Resilience and Climate Change

Principle 8:  Innovative Financing: Impact Investing

The outcome actions were in line with what I called for: