Public-Private Partnership – PPP
Cooperation between official development cooperation and the private sector
With its PPP strategy, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) intends to strengthen the concerted action of official development cooperation and private business activity. Its main goals are the mobilisation of additional contributions from the private sector, the utilisation of private management know-how with a view to more efficient service delivery, and the promotion of private-sector investment as a growth engine for our partner countries' development process.
Development partnerships with the private sector, or Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), are thus not only in the interest of the enterprises concerned, they also generate added value from a development point of view.
BMZ set up a separate fund for development partnerships with the private sector in 1999 (PPP Facility). In 2009 it was restructured and renamed to develoPPP.de. Projects financed from develoPPP.de are implemented jointly by the enterprise concerned and by one of the following implementing agencies:
GIZ
DEG
SEQUA
Project examples:
- Innovative Training Measures for the Cooperative Credit Structure:
Acceleration of standardised training through development of suitable tools (e-Learning & Correspondence Training); Partners: GIZ, IIBF, ADG Montabaur. - Centre of Excellence for Production of Algae Feedstock for Biodiesel:
Establishment of a centre for validation and demonstration of innovative technologies for effectively dealing with renewable energy and CO2 reduction; Partners: Beckons, GIZ.
