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UNDP's Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) Programme is pleased to present the 15th issue of the Global Learning Network's Public Private Partnership Newsletter - PPP News. This informative newsletter is available to all members of PPPUE's Global Learning Network, an open community for those interested in increasing the access of the urban poor to basic services through sustainable public private partnership.

PPP News covers a wide range of current information on PPP for the Urban Environment including current events, publications, project news and vacancy announcements, information which will be invaluable to the PPP practitioner and researcher alike

PPP News is produced in partnership by the UNDP Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment programme (PPPUE) and the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Please send contributions and feedback to pppue@yale.edu

Table of Contents

1. News Flash!
   1. Workshop sponsored by UNDP-Public Private Partnerships Program
   2. Dalai Lama to privatise Tibetan business
   3. Insurance Corporation divestiture this year
   4. Critics fear privatization that will cost the Government of Ghana
   5. FRANCHISING: Option for Water and Sanitation in Small Towns
   6. LEBANON: Privatization of Water Companies Underway
   7. Ondeo (SUEZ) begins the world's largest O&M water services contract
   8. CHINA: Another Step towards Privatization
   9. Water privatisation in Peru. Broken Promise Sparks Riots
   10. Government of Jordan to invest up to $2.5 billion on water projects


2. Experiences with Innovative PPP Projects
   1. Lessons Learned: Water project in Marunda, Indonesia
      

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3. New Publications
   1. Developing Best Practices for Promoting Private Sector Investment in Infrastructure - Water Supply
   2. Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers
   3. Report On World Bank's Board-Approved Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy
   4. Private Sector Development : Pro-Poor, or Merely Poor, Service Delivery
   5. The What and Why of Public Private Partnerships
   6. Privatisation & Public Private Partnership Review 2002/2003
   7. Impact of Privatization in Cote d'Ivoire
   8. Public Hospitals: Options for Reform through Public-Private Partnerships
      
      
      

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4. Upcoming Events: Workshops and Conferences
   1. Workshops on Project Management for Public-Private Partnerships, Chicago, USA
   2. Working together to assist the urban poor--establishing an open community of practice for pro-poor in Cape Town
   3. Course on public private partnerships, Sydney, Australia
   4. Public-Private Partnerships in Water and Sewerage Services Workshop, Washington, D.C
   5. Euromoney Training - Americas Project Finance Workshop, Euromoney Training Center, New York City
   6. World Summit WaterDome, Johannesburg, South Africa
   7. Assessment of Water Projects in Mexico
   8. Strategy Workshop on Public Private Partnerships in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
   9. PPP in Greece: A workshop to be held in Rome, Italy
   10. WEFTEC 2002: 75th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA
   11. PPP & Managed Equipment Services Projects in Healthcare in Dublin, Ireland
   12. Model for Risk Assessment in PFI/PPP Projects
   13. PPP in Queensland, Australia
   14. XI World Water Congress: Water Resources Management in the 21st Century, Madrid, Spain
   15. Summer School on Private Participation in Infrastructure, Berlin, Germany
   16. 3rd Annual Telecommunications Brazil Roundtable, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   17. Partnering with East-Central Europe's Cities: Conference on East-Central Europe's Infrastructure in New York, USA
       
       

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Copyright Notice:
Information contained in this newsletter may be freely used for non-commercial purposes as long as due acknowledgement is provided to the UNDP PPPUE Program. Commercial use or redistribution in any form, printed or electronic, requires prior approval.

Editor: Yale-UNDP PPPUE Project Yale University New Haven, CT 06511 USA E-mail:pppue@yale.edu

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