Building Partnerships for Development is an informal network of partners seeking sustainable development through partnerships among the private, public sectors and community at the local level. The BPD has initiated a set of eight local-level focus projects to promote effective mechanisms successful multi-sector partnerships. It aims to enhance existing forums for international debate, build the capacity within target groups for partnership ventures, support existing partnership water and sanitation projects and research issues relating to water and sanitation.

The website provides information on the latest water and sanitation events, the Crystal Clear newsletter, downloadable new research papers, list of partners, resource centres and frameworks. It also contains useful practitioner notes and multi-sector partnership workshop reports in its BPD digital library and resource centre.

Contact:

BPD Water and Sanitation
Prince Consort House,
27-29 Albert Embankment,
London SE1 7UB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7793 4557
Fax: +44 (0)20 7582 0962
Email: info@bpd-waterandsanitation.org

The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multi agency resource facility aimed at improving the quality of their infrastructure through private sector involvement. Created by a joint initiative of the governments of Japan and the United Kingdom in July 1999, the PPIAF is owned and directed by a collaboration of development agencies and international financial institutions. It aims at spreading information and promoting best practices with technical assistance to developing countries to encourage the private involvement in infrastructure.

The website hosts the application process and eligibility requirements for PPIAF support, with the list of ‘best practice’ projects supported in the water and sanitation sector. It provides links and contact addresses of international donors actively involved in the privatization of water and sanitation services in the developing world.

Contact:

Southern Africa:
Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
Regional Coordination Office - Southern Africa
927A Pretorius Street, Arcadia, 0083
P. O. Box 12536, Hatfield, 0028
Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: 27 12 430 7995/9
Fax: 27 12 430 2645
Email: idiong@worldbank.org

Eastern Africa:
Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
Regional Coordination Office-Eastern Africa
Kenya Re Towers
P2, Ragati Road-Upperhill
C/o. The World Bank
P.O. Box 30577
Nairobi, Kenya.
Tel: 254 2 714095
Fax: 254 2 714275
Email: idiong@worldbank.org

Public-Private Partnerships for Urban Environmental Services (PPUE) under the aegis of the Bureau for Development Policy of the UNDP, promotes exchange of information and resource between public and private actors to address urban environmental needs, without necessarily complete privatization. PPUE encourages complimentary international multi-donor, multi partnership networks to local level innovative partnerships in small and medium-sized cities.
The website hosts links to the Global Learning Network (GLN) and Innovative Partnership Grants (IPG) programmes, with additional links to a number of it’s partner W&S technical institutions, infrastructure management centres and development agencies.

Contact

PPUE
351 Schoeman St,
Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
Tel: +27 (12) 338-5395
Fax: +27 (12) 320-4074
E-mail: pppue@undp.org