Public-Private Partnerships

Cooperation for Success

Development policy is increasingly seen as part of the global structural policy, with politics, industry, and society joining forces. The private sector is gaining in importance: the rise in world-wide transfers of capital and know-how makes the private sector an important partner for development cooperation. Thanks to their long term commitments, private companies create jobs, impart new skills and experience to their staff, and thus boost economic prosperity on the ground. The Federal German Government realizes that this has generated interests common to private industry and development cooperation, that can be harnessed to the mutual benefit of all parties involved. As part of a joint initiative the GTZ and the DEG thus offer private-sector businesses and organizations the chance to join a public private partnership for projects in developing countries and newly industrializing states.

What is a public private partnership?

Public private partnerships are joint projects operated by German businesses and/or private-sector institutions on the one hand, and development cooperation organizations on the other. The success of the partnership project benefits all parties.

Public private partnerships aim to make the most of the opportunities offered by linking the increased commitment of German businesses in developing counties with the specific know-how of development cooperation organizations: opportunities for businesses to invest under enhanced conditions; opportunities for development cooperation to harness private industry as a locomotive of economic and social development in the interests of the counties involved, and to provide back-up services as required. Cooperation between the private sector and development cooperation offers both sides the chance of achieving their respective goals better, more rapidly and more cost-effectively. Therein lies the innovative force of the new concept of public private partnership for development.

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