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Public–private partnership (PPP)

 describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes referred to as PPP, P3 or P³.


PPP involves a contract between a public sector authority and a private party, in which the private party provides a public service or project and assumes substantial financial, technical and operational risk in the project. In some types of PPP, the cost of using the service is borne exclusively by the users of the service and not by the taxpayer. In other types (notably the private finance initiative), capital investment is made by the private sector  on the strength of a contract with government to provide agreed services and the cost of providing the service is borne wholly or in part by the government.

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iciency in service delivery without losing ‘Public good characteristics of basic services like health, education and so on. Therefore as an effort to enhance efficiency governments are now retrenching from direct service provisioning by putting the responsibility to local government  bodies, privatizing service delivery and contracting out to private sector or NGOs (Goldsworthy 2001/2002:21) sometimes under the banner of PPP. In this context the central aim of this paper is to explore the implications of the process with special focus on the health sector in Bangladesh

ates role by improving private sector in service delivery has led to the development of various modes and forms of  public private partnership (ppp) both in developed and developing countries. PPP is considered as a solution to public sector’s ineff.

Primary healthcare in Bangladesh is supposed to be a public responsibility, and until recently the government has tried to provide basic services directly through its own bureaucracy. However, the public sector faces acute problems in meeting the growing needs of urban population, especially the poor. In recent years, new institutions such as partnerships with not-for-profit private organizations are sought to improve the access and quality of primary care. This paper focuses on one urban partnership project, UPHCP in Bangladesh. It analyzes the service providing  process,  accountability relationships among different stakeholders involved in the project and cost effectiveness of contracting out.