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Inclusiveness in Public-Private Partnerships: report

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May 27, 2016

Inclusiveness in Public-Private Partnerships: NGO Views and Strategies

Partnerships have become a widely used policy mechanism in the sphere of international development cooperation. In the Netherlands, public-private partnerships are actively stimulated for agricultural development and food security and in the domain of water management and sanitation as well. In most partnerships financed by the Dutch Directorate-General for International trade and development cooperation (DGIS) the responsibility for attaining inclusiveness objectives is delegated to non-governmental organisations (NGO). Three researchers of PAP (Otto Hospes, Art Dewulf and Marijn Faling) have been asked by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) to conduct a study addressing the following questions: How do NGOs define and safeguard inclusiveness in public-private partnerships? How and to whom do NGOs account for inclusiveness? What opportunities and threats do Netherlands-based NGOs identify for securing inclusiveness in response to new demands and changes in development cooperation funding?

Curious about their findings and issues for policy debate? We welcome you to read, reflect on, give feedback and share their report!

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