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For all of our age's technological advances, service innovations, and instant connectivity, gender inequality stubbornly remains a defining characteristic of the structure of our economies and the opportunities for our citizens. This is especially true in many corners of the developing world, where women trail men in health and educational outcomes, access to jobs and assets, and their ability to voice their opinions and exercise agency over their lives. Urban transit systems that are mapped against job locations for women, designed to provide security, and operated to remove uncertainty of arrival times, are essential to balancing labor opportunities for female workers. In the various infrastructure sectors, the authors are pleased to report that best-practice examples have been mounting. Yet, for infrastructure-development professionals, particularly those focused on crowding in private financing and operations and preparing public-private partnerships (PPPs), knowing where to start integrating gender equality concerns into our work can be daunting. However daunting, the incorporation of gender considerations is uniquely important for PPPs, where private-service providers become the main interface with consumers. This report consolidates and draws from a wide spectrum of examples that cut across sectors to demonstrate how infrastructure, its development, and the policies and regulations governing its construction and operation, can play a role in closing gaps between women and men. It pinpoints approaches for ensuring that projects not only do no harm, but also serve as vehicles for empowerment, providing practical guidance that can be systematically integrated into PPP projects and frameworks. The primer points out that best practices at the intersection of gender equality and infrastructure PPPs are still evolving.

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Eswatini is facing multiple challenges. It was already experiencing weak economic growth before the COVID-19 pandemic, a reflection of longstanding, deeply rooted issues such as fiscal unsustainability, declining private investment, weakening productivity and competitiveness, and falling export diversification and complexity, compounded by the impact of climate shocks. It shifted from a private investment-led higher-growth model to a government spending-led lower-growth model after the end of apartheid in South Africa. With weak investment in productive sectors, Eswatini's job market failed to keep pace with an expanding, younger labor force, leading to a large informal sector. Eswatini's public sector-driven growth model is unsustainable under current fiscally constrained conditions, and there is a need to reduce and reprioritize public spending. An assessment of existing sectoral data and consultations with Eswatini's private sector and policy makers suggest that four sectors can help drive the export-led private sector growth model. To return to an export-led growth model, Eswatini needs to increase export competitiveness by advancing regulatory reforms and improvements in trade logistics that include regional collaboration to address trade facilitation constraints. Finally, given the country's vulnerability to climate risks, policies to foster economic resilience amid extreme weather events (mainly droughts that affect agriculture) and improve disaster preparedness need to be pursued. The private sector must adapt to this challenge and work with the government to improve climate resilience.

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"In the context of the economic crisis, governments are under increased pressure to find quick answers to hard questions about maintaining public services and funding infrastructure. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) can be used to describe a wide variety of arrangements involving the public and private sectors working together in some way. The key elements for a PPP project are long-term contract; design construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure by the private sector party; payments over the lifetime of the project to the private sector party for the use of the facility made either by the public sector party or by the general public as users of the facility; and facility remaining in the public sector ownership or reverting to public sector ownership at the end of the PPP contract. In this book we go through this concept by analyzing not only the opportunities in that field but also the trends and new perspectives. Therefore, this book captures the results of some of the recent research that is being carried out on public-private cooperation"--

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Public-private sector cooperation. --- National security --- History.

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Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux responsables gouvernementaux ainsi qu'aux bailleurs de fonds et aux autres parties prenantes dans les services d'eau urbains. Il analyse les resultats enregistres par plus de 65 grands Partenariats public-prive (PPP) du secteur de l'eau (representant plus de 100 millions d'habitants desservis) mis en cuvre dans differentes regions du monde sur une periode de 15 ans, du point de vue de l'acces a l'eau, de la qualite du service, de l'efficacite operationnelle et du niveau des tarifs. Il vise a mieux comprendre comment resoudre les multiples problemes que pose la fourniture de services d'eau et d'assainissement dans les villes des pays en developpement (PED). La population urbaine desservie par des operateurs prives de services d'eau dans les PED n'a cesse de grossir depuis 1990. Pour bon nombre d'entre elles, les progres constates en matiere de service et d'efficacite confirment l'interet des PPP. La mise en cuvre de PPP pour les services d'eau dans les PED a rarement ete une tache facile, et ils ne doivent pas etre consideres comme la seule voie de reforme possible. Neanmoins, il ressort de cette analyse de donnees factuelles qu'un partenariat bien concu entre les secteurs public et prive dans un PED peut etre efficace pour redresser une compagnie des eaux peu performante. Le principal objectif ne doit plus etre d'attirer des capitaux prives mais d'utiliser des operateurs prives pour ameliorer la qualite et l'efficacite des services. Un cercle vertueux se cree alors, par lequel la compagnie des eaux ameliore sa situation financiere et devient progressivement capable de financer une part plus importante de ses besoins d'investissement.

Public-private sector cooperation. --- Project management.