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Financing the localization of the SDGs is a crucial issue for cities and local administrations. They need to know how to assess the advantages & disadvantages of different forms of financing by local governments such as through innovative and operational...

Sustainable Success of PPPs are determined by the ability of the PPP operators in engaging a multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnership. A lack of inclusion of civil society and particularly of CSO citizens who are impacted positively or negatively by an...

Raymond Saner, (2021) « PPPs and SDGs, the Missing Stakeholder Is Civil Society” In A. Farazmand (ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, pp 1-10, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4320-1 The SDGs suggest the achievement of...

Raymond Saner & Lichia Yiu CSEND, April 2024. A growing number of P.O.s expressed interest in contributing to the SDGs and the international and multi-stakeholder efforts to find solutions to the multiple crises and long-term issues pertaining to sustainability, such...

Side Event, UNECE 5th PPP Forum This Side Event was co-organised by CSEND and WAPPP. PPP experts present chapters of a new publication titled “Making PPPs fit the 2030 Agenda”. The research has been undertaken jointly by seven authors, all...

On 22nd June 2020, Prof Raymond Saner joined the WAPPP webinar on "How to increase the ESG impact in public-private partnership investments"

During the 2017 UN conference in Jamaica, Raymond Saner made two presentations, wrote one paper and gave an interview. Paper: Financing SDGs through PPPs: Need for standards, institutions and capacity building. This paper discusses the financing and implementation of the...

Raymond Saner (2018); Successful financing of the SDGs through PPPs requires building capacities for a PCSD approach. In OECD (2018), Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development 2018: Towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies, OECD Publishing, Paris; http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264301061-en, p.220-222 Many developing country governments...

CSEND management team participated in the 2016 UNECE conference on PPP and SDGs. Particularly, Raymond Saner developed an evaluation grid to assess PPP case examples which were discussed during the morning session of the 3-day conference. Programme

Democratizing the PPP standard setting process of the health sector. Article