UNECE Public-Private Partnerships

✨ We are excited to announce the launch of our new workstream on the use of #AI in PPPs for the SDGs, part of the UNECE's ongoing efforts to innovate and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. 🌍    This work will consider the transformative potential of AI in PPP and infrastructure projects by exploring the opportunities and challenges of leveraging AI to advance the SDGs.    📆 In the coming months, we will release a series of forward-looking policy briefs and webinars that will discuss the following key focus areas:    💡 Harnessing the power of data in PPPs: opportunities and challenges; 💡 Enhancing PPP project identification and planning through AI;   💡 Improving PPP stakeholder engagement and fostering transparency in public consultation using AI;  💡 Transforming PPP financial modelling and investment decision making with AI; and  💡 Leveraging AI to optimize the longevity and safety of infrastructure assets.   🔔 Stay tuned for updates on our upcoming policy briefs and webinar series, featuring leading experts who will share insights and engage in discussions on these critical and timely topics.   Editorial team: Dr Stacy Sinclair, Dr. Syed M. Ali Zaidi, Anna Abramova,   Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García #UNECE #PPP #AI #PPPsfortheSDGs #SDGs #PublicPrivatePartnerships #Policy #Infrastructure #Sustainability

🚀 Excited to present the Schedule of the 9th UNECE International PPP Forum, co-organised by UNECE and the Government of Serbia, on May 14-16, 2025, in Belgrade! This year´s overarching theme is “Accelerating the SDGs and climate action: Implementing resilient PPPs and infrastructure for a sustainable future“.    🔍 Key Focus Areas: ✅ Climate-resilient PPP and infrastructure projects in support of the SDGs; ✅ Fiscal sustainability and tariff affordability; ✅ PPPs as a tool to attract sustainable finance for infrastructure; ✅ PPPs and women empowerment and stakeholder participation; ✅ Artificial intelligence (AI) and PPPs; and ✅ Showcasing of PPP and infrastructure projects from around the world. 🔔 Stay tuned for the full Programme coming soon!🔔   🗓️ 14-16 May 2025 📍Belgrade, Serbia and online    Participation is free of charge! Secure your spot by registering now: https://lnkd.in/ef_CM8fy More information on the venue and preferential hotel rates will be communicated shortly! Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García #UNECE #PPP #9PPPFORUM #PPPsfortheSDGs #ClimateAction #SustainableFuture

🎉 Happy New Year 2025! The UNECE PPP Team sends its warmest wishes for a year filled with impactful collaborations and shared successes! Your unwavering support has been instrumental in driving progress toward the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and reinforcing our shared commitment to advancing PPPs for the SDGs. 🌟 Reflecting on 2024, we celebrate some remarkable achievements made possible through our collective efforts: 🔹 The PIERS digital platform: Since its launch, 118 projects across 44 countries and 18 sectors were assessed, with a total value of $45 billion. 🔹 Capacity building through PIERS: 10 activities—3 national, 2 regional, and 5 international—brought together over 1,000 participants from 90 countries, primarily public officials. 🔹 Four policy guides were endorsed by our member States to support the SDGs, focusing on the digital transformation of PPPs, digital infrastructure, PPP procurement, and infrastructure finance midway to 2030. 🔹 Circular economy in PPPs: We conducted an exercise with 35 member States to explore the implementation of ECE guidelines endorsed in 2022, assessing progress in circular economy areas such as discouraging landfilling, promoting circular procurement, and adopting a lifecycle approach to PPPs. 🔹 The Eighth Session of the Working Party on PPPs in Geneva drew over 250 participants in November delivering concrete results. 🔹 The 8th UNECE International PPP Forum in Istanbul in May co-organized with the Government of Türkiye, engaged over 600 participants from 93 countries to advance PPPs in support of the SDGs. 🔹 We continue working on guides and standards focusing on gender equality and women’s empowerment, stakeholder engagement, small-scale PPPs, off-grid renewable energy, and climate resilience in PPP projects. 🔹 Two new workstreams will be launched in 2025 on AI in PPPs and on fiscal sustainability and tariff affordability to support the SDGs. 🔹The next big event is the 9th UNECE International PPP Forum in Belgrade, Serbia, on 14-16 May 2025. Here’s to another year of shared milestones and meaningful impact, looking forward to the next! ✨ #UNECE #PPP #PPPsfortheSDGs   Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar

Season's Greetings from the UNECE PPP Team! 🎄 As 2024 comes to a close, our Team sends heartfelt wishes for a joyful holiday season filled with happiness, warmth, and inspiration! 🌟 Thank you for being an integral part of our journey. We are eagerly anticipating our continued work together to foster collaboration and advance PPPs to drive sustainable development for all. #UNECE #PPP #PPPsfortheSDGs Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar

🌍 UNECE member States achieve significant progress in their Public-Private Partnerships programmes In Geneva, government representatives from 10 UNECE member States across Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia came together to advance PPPs for the SDGs as a cornerstone of #INFF. The workshop highlighted transformative progress, showcasing how the use of PPPs has allowed huge investments into infrastructure projects across the region. Spanning sectors such as renewable energy, transport, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and culture, these PPP projects are driving sustainable growth by striving to embed SDG principles into every stage—identification, development and implementation. 🌟The workshop exemplified public-private collaboration and a forward-looking vision for resilient, inclusive, and sustainable regional development! 🚀 Key Takeaways: ✅ Robust Legal Frameworks: Strong legal foundations are critical for mobilizing resources and aligning PPP projects with national and global SDG priorities. UNECE’s Standard on PPPs/Concessions Legal Framework provides a practical and effective mechanism to support governments in achieving these goals. ✅ Evaluation tool: The PIERS methodology has proven to be an invaluable tool for governments in the region, enabling them to assess projects for their SDG alignment, and build the confidence needed to attract sustainable investments. ✅ Capacity Building: Tailored training and capacity-building initiatives focused on the PPPs for the SDGs approach and the PIERS methodology remain essential to enhance implementation, optimize project outcomes, and ensure long-term impact. 💡 Want to know more about the workshop? Check out our News Item! https://lnkd.in/dmae-jwf Turkan Vusat, Tatyana Chizik, Maria Usik, Nadira Myrzagaliyeva, Bekmurat Talipov, Sanzhar Mombekov, Sultan Kurumbaev, Marina CHITANU, Viorel Garaz, Gabriel Cojocaru, Andrijana Jovanovic, Nikola Ratkovic, Jelena Tadić, Obrad Tadic, Miroslav Zotovic, Dragutin Nenezić, Karomatullo Mahmudov, Hatice Belkıs CULCU PİRİ, Merve Öner, Sule Pehlivan, Batyr Gajarov, Soltanova Kumush, Abduqodir Yobukov Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar #UNECE #PPP #PPPsfortheSDGs #INFF

🚀 Passionate about PPPs, Fiscal Sustainability, and Affordability? Join Us! 🌍The UNECE PPP Secretariat is looking for experts to support a new initiative: the development of a guide on "Enhancing Fiscal Sustainability and Affordability in PPPs for the SDGs." If you are passionate about PPPs, fiscal sustainability, and affordability, have expertise in these topics, and would like to be part of an international, multidisciplinary, and dynamic network under the auspices of the UNECE, we invite you to express your interest! 🔗 Register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eERDRXeg Deadline: 15 January 2025. Thank you for your interest in supporting UNECE’s work. The Secretariat will contact those who register with further details on involvement opportunities. #UNECE #PPP #PPPsfortheSDGs #SustainableDevelopment #FiscalSustainability #FiscalAffordability Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar

✨ As we approach the end of 2024, we want to express our sincere gratitude to all the experts, partners and other stakeholders who have been part of the UNECE PPP Programme this year. Your commitment, expertise, and collaboration have been invaluable in advancing our mission to leverage PPPs for achieving the SDGs.   🌍 Looking ahead, 2025 promises new opportunities to innovate, collaborate, and strengthen our efforts in accelerating the SDGs and driving climate action through resilient PPPs and sustainable infrastructure.   🤝 Together, we can continue building a better, more sustainable future. Thank you for being part of this journey, and let’s keep the momentum going!   Dr. Syed M. Ali Zaidi, Eleni Bakoula, Sanzhar Bolotov, Doris CHEVALIER, Rose-Lourdes Elysee, Olivier GINEPRO, Gabriele Pasquini, Ph.D., Melissa Peneycad, Joan-Enric Ricart, Jekaterina Šarmavičienė   #UNECE #PPP #PPPsfortheSDGs Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar

📢 We are thrilled to announce that the 9th edition of the UNECE International PPP Forum will take place in Belgrade, Serbia on 14-16 May 2025. Please save the dates! 🔗 Registration is now open: https://lnkd.in/etqAXUvZ More information on the Forum is available on our website: https://lnkd.in/etqAXUvZ   #UNECE #PPP #PPPsfortheSDGs #9PPPFORUM Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar

Successful conclusion of UNECE 8th Session of the Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships 🤝 The second day started with a thought-provoking panel exploring how innovation-enhancing procurement (IEP) can improve PPP frameworks to foster #TransformativeInnovation and sustainable practices. The Working Party then endorsed four policy guides on digital transformation, digital infrastructure, green and sustainable PPP procurement, infrastructure finance. We then heard a fascinating overview of ongoing workstreams on off-grid renewable energy, climate resilience, women empowerment and gender equality, small-scale PPPs, and stakeholder engagement, showcasing how PPPs can drive meaningful impacts aligned with the SDGs in these important areas. Looking ahead, the Working Party launched two new workstreams: One on #AI and PPPs, one on enhancing #FiscalSustainability and #Affordability in PPPs for the SDGs. Over the past two days, we had a full room of engaged participants and inspiring ideas, exploring how resilient, sustainable, and innovative PPPs can drive meaningful change. Thank you to all the delegates, speakers and attendees for making this 8th session a success! 🌟 Steven A. D. Van Garsse, Petra Ferk, Marc Frilet, Anita Skog, Lina Svensberg, Vassilis Tsanidis, Dr Stacy Sinclair, Gabriele Pasquini, Ph.D., Agnes Mazurek, David Baxter, David A. Dodd, Doris CHEVALIER, Melissa Peneycad, Jean-Patrick Marquet Elisabeth Türk, Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar

Successful first day of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s 8th Session of the Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships. 🎉 The first day started with an inspiring opening speech from UNECE Executive Secretary Ms. Tatiana Molcean and keynote speech from Mr. Surya Deva, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development. The opening was followed by international policy discussion with four sessions on the topic of - connecting the UN #PactfortheFuture to the UNECE PPP programme, and integrating #SustainableInfrastructure, #FinancialSustainability, and #DigitalTransformation of #PPPs for #ClimateAction and the #SDGs. A heartfelt thank you to all our inspiring speakers and participants for their valuable contributions! Stay tuned for more insights from Day 2. 🤝 Elisabeth Türk, Doris CHEVALIER, Jean-Patrick Marquet, Dr Stacy Sinclair, Dr. Syed M. Ali Zaidi, Eleni Bakoula, David A. Dodd, Turkan Vusat, Christophe Dossarps, David Baxter, Idil Gursel, Jekaterina Šarmavičienė, Nikos Sergis Olivier GINEPRO, Gabriele Pasquini, Ph.D., Melissa Peneycad, Dr. Eyup Vural AYDIN, Nicholas Yatromanolakis Tony Bonnici, Claudio Meza, Antonin Menegaux, Camille Malafosse, Maria Cristina Montero de Espinosa García, Yesui Bayar