Publication database

This compendium of case studies featuring Public-Private Partnerships, this is a first attempt by the UNECE to generate interest in the SDGs through real projects that made a difference in their respective communities.

This paper provides a quantitative and qualitative presentation of USAID’s public-private partnerships and business sector participation in those PPPs. The analysis offered here is based on USAID’s PPP data set covering 2001-2014 and interviews with executives of 17 U.S. corporations that have engaged in PPPs with USAID.

This paper examines the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to companies' business activities. It sets out many significant opportunities for all companies to play a role in the achievement of the SDGs.

This report investigates three types of partnerships and highlights some of the best practices and evidence regarding partnerships within mHealth services across surveyed markets.

This guide offers tips for Finnish SMEs interested in emerging markets, particularly serving the Base of the Pyramid, in highlighting business opportunities, tailoring products and services and showing examples of successful inclusive business models.

This publication deals with a public-private partnership between GIZ and Western Marine Shipyard Ltd., a leading shipyard in Bangladesh, which was set up in order to improve occupational health and safety for the workers and their surrounding community. The report describes the context, the approach, results and lessons learned.

This case study describes the interventions undertaken to create an inclusive business ecosystem in health in Kenya in order to increase awareness of and access to Oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc for treating childhood diarrhoea.

Many countries are pursuing government-sponsored health insurance as a primary path towards universal health coverage. In these same countries, there are private health microinsurance schemes sponsored by community-based organizations, commercial insurance companies, or other institutions. In Briefing Note #20, the Facility explores the hypothesis that government-sponsored initiatives should collaborate with private actors to accelerate the expansion of health insurance to informal workers and their families. 

The report assesses over 900 healthcare programmes for their suitability for investment to scale up and replicate elsewhere. It identifies significant opportunities for commercial organisations to establish strategic partnerships with a number of promising healthcare delivery models in order to drive scale, profitability and impact.

This document provides a practical tool for poverty-oriented planning and reporting of development partnerships. It has been developed to assist partnership managers to understand the necessity and rationale for analysing poverty impacts and guide them through such an analysis. It contains examples on how to use the tool for the agriculture sector, the health sector and the green economy.