Emergency Response to Hurricane Dorian: Emergent Volunteer Groups and Public-Private Partnerships

Public-Private Partnerships

Finance and Public-Private Partnerships

A PPP bundles investment and service provision of infrastructure into a single long-term contract. A group of private investors finances and manages the construction of the project, then maintains and operates the facilities for a long period of usually 20 to 30 years, and at the end of the contract transfers the assets to the government. During the operation of the project, the private partner...

Business models of public private partnerships in publicly-financed emergency response services

Introduction The last six years of India’s National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has witnessed the emergence of a wide variety of public funded, privately managed ambulance services across the states. Today there are over 3850 government financed emergency response ambulances and another 3000 are just about to start up, whereas just five years ago there were almost none. States have chosen diffe...

Public-private partnerships: an overview.

The development and marketing of medicines needed specifically to combat diseases of the developing world are commercially unattractive because the populations concerned are among the poorest on earth. Partnerships which bring together pharmaceutical companies, academics, not-for-profit organizations, philanthropists, governmental and inter-governmental agencies are an increasingly popular solu...

2.1.3. Global Public-Private Partnerships

We amply dealt with the history and evolution of partnerships, which culminated in the setting up of Global Public Private Partnerships (GPPPs) focusing on health programmes, in the first report of the Osservatorio Italiano sulla Salute Globale1 (Italan Global Health Watch) in 2004. Some authors have argued that the GPPP phenomenon is linked to structural changes, and destined to consolidate it...