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Equalities in Public Private Partnerships (EQUIPPPS)

公私伙伴关系平等 (EQUIPPPS)

基本信息

批准号：
ES/P006353/1
负责人：
Jasmine Gideon
金额：
$ 19.31万
依托单位：
Birkbeck, University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP006353%2F1
关键词：
Equalities Public Private Partnerships EQUIPPPS

项目摘要

This proposal seeks funding for a Strategic Network to identify research gaps and formulate a research agenda on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in developing countries across four sectors: education, health, housing and water. PPPs increasingly play a significant role in the financing and delivery of public services. They are deemed to offer potential for addressing inequalities in provision and access to public services across the Global South. As such, they are promoted as an important development financing mechanism in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (see SDG 17.3 and the Addis Ababa Declaration of the Third United Nations Financing for Development Summit, July 2015). The occurrence of PPPs, however, is not new. They first emerged in the Global North in the 1980s as part of a wider strategy of infrastructure development. PPPs were presented as a means to raise finance without increasing public sector debt. They were also heralded as a way to avoid perceived public sector inadequacies through greater involvement of private sector agents with alleged efficiency and cost effectiveness advantages. By the late 1990s, PPPs were being promoted across the Global South by a number of bilateral and multilateral agencies as the solution to growing demands for public services and the advocacy efforts in favour of PPPs have strengthened in the last few years. Yet, there remains an acute lack of scholarly work on the effects of PPPs within and across sectors in the developing world. Critics have argued that there is insufficient evidence to support many of the claims and assumptions surrounding the presumed benefits of PPPs and their wider ability to contribute to poverty reduction or to address inequalities. Another concern in drawing conclusions regarding the effectiveness of PPPs is that PPP research has tended to remain in sector-specific silos and has failed to address cross-sectoral linkages, challenges or insights. This constrains evaluations of PPPs in general as a means to overcome inadequacies in the public sector. Further, PPP is a loose term that covers a wide range of arrangements across different sectors and it is open to a diverse range of interpretations (IOB, 2013; Languille, 2016; Romero, 2015). This needs unpicking in an attempt to draw lessons regarding PPP outcomes in the developing world. Finally, both the current promotion of and opposition to PPPs largely fail to address some fundamental questions regarding the nature and history of both the public and private sectors in particular regions and countries. The complexities of what constitutes the public and private sectors (types of actors), the nature of PPP partnerships (types of relationships), and their outcomes including with regard to equity (types of impacts) remain to be investigated. This network seeks to address the need to understand PPP processes across sectors, how PPPs are implemented in practice and what the nature of their effects are in terms of dynamics of inequalities. The network will bring together academics, policy makers, development practitioners and other stakeholders to build capacity to interrogate PPPs as a solution to development challenges. In particular, it seeks to foster cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary fertilization by drawing on academic and non-academic expertise of varying disciplinary and sectoral origin. The network will be organised around two hubs located in India and South Africa, with the co-ordination of network activities located in the UK. It will engage in scoping exercises, hold various consultative meetings and a final full network meeting. It embodies an early-careers and capacity building element through a doctoral student mentoring component and will engage in an active communication strategy both within the network and beyond through a website, intranet, other forms of social media, and provision of web-links to network activities.

该提案寻求为一个战略网络提供资金，以确定研究差距，并制定关于发展中国家教育、卫生、住房和水四个部门公私伙伴关系的研究议程。公私伙伴关系在公共服务的融资和提供方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。它们被认为具有解决全球南方地区公共服务提供和获取方面不平等问题的潜力。因此，它们被宣传为支持可持续发展目标的重要发展融资机制（见可持续发展目标17.3和2015年7月第三届联合国发展筹资峰会的阿迪斯宣言）。然而，公私伙伴关系的出现并不新鲜。它们于20世纪80年代首次出现在全球北方，作为更广泛的基础设施发展战略的一部分。公私伙伴关系被认为是在不增加公共部门债务的情况下筹集资金的一种手段。它们还被认为是通过私营部门代理人的更多参与来避免公共部门被认为存在不足之处的一种方式，这些代理人据称具有效率和成本效益优势。到1990年代末，一些双边和多边机构在全球南方推广公私伙伴关系，因为这是解决对公共服务日益增长的需求的办法，而且过去几年中支持公私伙伴关系的宣传工作得到了加强。然而，关于公私伙伴关系在发展中世界各部门内部和部门之间的影响的学术工作仍然严重缺乏。批评者认为，没有足够的证据支持围绕公私伙伴关系的假定惠益及其促进减贫或解决不平等问题的更广泛能力的许多主张和假设。在就公私伙伴关系的有效性得出结论时的另一个关切是，公私伙伴关系研究往往停留在具体部门的孤立领域，未能解决跨部门联系、挑战或见解。这限制了对公私伙伴关系作为克服公共部门不足之处的一种手段的总体评价。此外，PPP是一个松散的术语，涵盖不同部门的广泛安排，并且可以有多种解释（IOB，2013; Languille，2016; Romero，2015）。这需要进行分析，以便从发展中国家的购买力平价结果中吸取经验教训。最后，目前对公私伙伴关系的提倡和反对在很大程度上都未能解决有关特定区域和国家公共和私营部门的性质和历史的一些基本问题。公共部门和私营部门的构成（行为者类型）、公私伙伴关系的性质（关系类型）及其结果（包括公平方面的结果）的复杂性（影响类型）仍有待调查。该网络力求满足了解跨部门公私伙伴关系进程、公私伙伴关系如何在实践中实施以及其对不平等动态的影响性质的需要。该网络将汇集学术界、决策者、发展工作者和其他利益攸关方，以建设能力，将公私伙伴关系作为解决发展挑战的办法。特别是，它力求通过借鉴不同学科和部门的学术和非学术专门知识，促进跨部门和跨学科的丰富。该网络将围绕位于印度和南非的两个中心进行组织，并在英国协调网络活动。它将参与范围界定工作，举行各种协商会议和最后的完整网络会议。它通过博士生指导部分体现了早期职业和能力建设要素，并将通过网站，内联网，其他形式的社交媒体以及提供网络活动的网络链接在网络内外开展积极的沟通战略。