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UNDP's Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) Programme is pleased to present the fifth 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

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Table of Contents

1. News Flash!
   1. UNDP’s PPPUE Unit Relocates to Pretoria, South Africa
   2. Call For Proposals for UNDP’s Innovative Grants Program
   3. Meeting of Instructors of PPPUE’s Distance Learning Programme in PPP, on November 28, 2001
   4. Consultative Group Meeting in the Netherlands

2. Experiences with Innovative PPP Projects
   1. Civic Bodies Tie up with Private Firm to sell Drinking Water, Calcutta, India
   2. Hygiene Behaviour Improvement in Kinshasa Markets, Congo
   3. ICRC provides clean water for Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo
   4. Private sector management model for small town water supply systems in Uganda
   5. IDB loan project to improve lo income housing in Sao Paulo tenements, Brazil
   6. World Bank/Netherlands Water Partnership Program
   7. Chalinze Water Project, Tanzania

Please visit the PPP Project Database

3. New Publications
   1. Endearing Myths Enduring Truths: Enabling Partnerships Between Business, Civil Society and the Public Sector
   2. Procurement protocols for public-private partnered projects
   3. Incentives for mitigation investment and more effective risk management: the need for public-private partnerships
   4. Public-private partnerships for health: their main targets, their diversity, and their future directions
   5. Probing the strategic intricacies of public-private partnership: The patent as a comparative reference
   6. Contracting for public services: Output-based aid and its applications

Please also visit the PPP Virtual Library

4. Upcoming Events: Workshops and Conferences
   1. Asia Solid and Hazardous Waste Management: Trade Expo and Conference, November 7th – 9th, 2001, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   2. Public Private Partnerships - Success and Practicalities, Exploring Options, November 13, 2001, London, UK
   3. IDB Business Seminar: Financing Private Sector Projects, November 15th, 2001, Washington, D.C.
   4. The Globe 2002 Conference: Accelerating Business and Sustainable Development Strategies, March 13th – 15th, 2002, Vancouver, Canada
   5. Public-Private Partnerships in Solid Waste Collection, Transfer and Disposal – Institute for Public-Private Partnerships (IP3) Training Workshop, April 22nd – May 3rd, 2002, Washington D.C.
   6. Public-Private Partnerships in the Power Sector – Institute for Public-Private Partnerships (IP3) Training Workshop, June 10th – 21st, 2002, Washington, D.C.
   7. Institute for Public-Private Partnerships Training Workshop on Public-Private Partnership Opportunities in the Water and Sewerage sector, August 5th – 16th, 2002, Washington, D.C.

Please also visit the PPP Events Calendar

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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