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established to harness the expertise
and knowledge of over 2000 experts
from the public and private sector
to identify international PPP best
practices, to assist governments
in implementing best practices
successfully, and to encourage
knowledge sharing between
countries new to PPPs and those with
mature PPP programmes. People first
PPPs is a model that foster access
to essential public services for all
where sustainable development
as its objective and putting people
first at the core This is in contrast,
to date, with PPPs model that have
been mainly done to finance public Partnerships (PfPPs) ensure that out According to UNECE, People-first
infrastructure or to seek operational of all stakeholders, ‘people’ are on PPPs must expand in scale, speed,
efficiency gains and realize only the top. Its focus is on improving the and spread with more people having
‘value for money’ for a particular quality of life of the communities, access to better services at affordable
project. While these aspects remain particularly those that are fighting prices.
important, with the adoption of the poverty, by creating local and
2030 Agenda, the challenge for sustainable jobs, those that fight UNECE STANDARD ON
governments and the private sector hunger and promote well-being, PPPS IN ROADS
now is to implement PPPs according promote gender equality, access Road infrastructure is crucial
to a broader set of holistic criteria to water, energy, transport, and for achieving most of the United
and undertake projects that from education for all, and that promote Nations’ Sustainable Development
inception to termination create social cohesion, justice and disavow Goals (“SDGs”), from their role
‘value for people’. all forms of discrimination based on in providing interconnectivity to
People-first Public-Private race, ethnicity, creed and culture. boosting economic trade and
development, roads assist in the
eradication of poverty to increasing
access to education, water supply
and industrial and commercial
opportunities, to combating
climate change by using low impact
materials, improving more efficient
travel and reducing fossil fuel usage.
In fact, high quality, well planned,
efficient roads can alleviate climate
change and mitigate the fact that
“climate change presents the single
biggest threat to development,
and its widespread, unprecedented
impacts disproportionately
burden the poorest and most
vulnerable.” UNECE supports the
use of partnerships for sustainable
development and has produced a
Standard to provide guidance to

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