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UNDP's Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) Programme is pleased to present the 21th 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. A new world organization "United Cities and Local Governments" is to be launched in January 2004.
   2. PERU: Andean Region: Canadian Funding for improving Water and Sanitation Services in Peruvian Small Towns
   3. Update on PPIAF Activities & Portfolio
   4. ASIA: South Asian Action Network for Sustainable Development and Social Justice
   5. JAPAN: Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation (BPD)
   6. GHANA: water privatization raises fears that profits and development cannot marry
   7. EUROPE: PRIVATIZATION: promoting public-private partnerships for Third World water
      
2. Experiences with Innovative PPP Projects
   1. INDIA: Infrastructure development: a public-private partnership
   2. INDIA: Govt Karnataka mulls privatising urban water supply
   3. USA: Public-Private Partnership: Increases and Diversifies Use

Please visit the PPP Project Database

3. New Publications
   1. Effective water governance
   2. Public-Private Partnerships and the Poor: Small Enterprises and Water
      Provision in Kibera, Nairobi
   3. Local Government and the Johannesburg Summit Meeting
   4. World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life
   5. For the Good of the People: Using Public-Private Partnerships To Meet America's Essential Needs (2002)
   6. PPPs-American Style
   7. Analyzing Asian Infrastructure Development Privatization Market
      

Please also visit the PPP Virtual Library

4. Upcoming Events: Workshops and Conferences
   1. January 21-23, 2003: Water, poverty, and productive uses of water at the household level in Muldersdrift, South Africa
   2. January 30, 2003 - February 1, 2003: 2nd Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference: Building Safe, Healthy, and Livable Communities
   3. February 17-20, 2003: Asia Power 2003 in Singapore
   4. February 24- March 21, 2003: Governance, Partnerships and Poverty at the University of Birmingham
   5. March 3-7, 2003: Structural Reforms: Public and Private Partnership, in Vienna, Austria
   6. March, 4-6, 2003: Commonwealth local government conference 2003: Local government service partnerships
   7. March 4-6, 2003--Water & Wastewater Europe 2003 in Acropolis Congress Hall, Nice
   8. March, 16, 2003: 3rd World Water Forum, Japan
   9. March 17 - 28, 2003: Best Practices in Corporate Governance for Public and Private Enterprises
   10. March 20, 2003: Regulatory Reforms-Water in New Delhi, India
   11. March 20-22, 2003: Building on the Practices for Effective Local Government Management
   12. March 25-27, 2003--Power Generation Africa 2003, in Hilton, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
   13. April 22- May 16, 2002: Managing Contracting, Partnerships & Regulation Training Programme,in Birmingham, United Kingdom
   14. May 5 - 23, 2003: Structuring, financing, and monitoring PPP projects in the water sector in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, USA
   15. September 9 - 12, 2003: SIXTH WATER INFORMATION SUMMIT 2003: Breaking the barriers: Let water information flow!in Delft, Netherlands

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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