A prelminary look at PPPs in the nexus of water-energy
This study reviews the success factors of public-private-partnerships (PPPs) and proposes a new success factor, ‘impact on product,’ as a result of a review of six large, mostly multi-national companies' PPP work in the area of the nexus of water and energy. Based on a preliminary research, it concludes that the ‘impact on product’ has potential to have a high weight in a company's decision-making process as it considers PPP possibilities with different NGOs. This may result in fewer number of but more successful PPPs from the private sector's perspective, but it may also help NGOs reconsider and refine their value propositions as they attempt to kick off and continue partnerships with the private sector.