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:
- While recognizing a growing consensus in support of the Guiding Principles, the proposed changes on governance, better definitions, among others discussed should be incorporated.
- UNECE also acknowledged the need for a strong, one UN perspective on PPPs and the SDGs. Unified guidelines will be more powerful in assisting policy makers to develop PPPs that put people- first and achieve the ambitious outcomes of the SDGs.
- Therefore, as a next step, the Guiding Principles will be sent to the other UN Regional Commissions to get comments and decide how to jointly implement them in countries.
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