Integration of sustainability across the entire life cycle of Public-Private Partnerships in infrastructure projects
Zeqollari, Egra (2022)
Zeqollari, Egra
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022102621617
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022102621617
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The need for more and better infrastructure is increasing with the world’s population. In the meantime, the governmental financial resources are decreasing. PPPs are used as mitigating tools to the financial gap, but not only. One of the main aims of this thesis is to study the different ways in which PPPs can help infrastructure development, besides funds provision. Considering the long duration of PPPs, one of their contributions is the provision of sustainable infrastructure. The UN has already suggested Public-Private Partnerships as a mechanism towards the Sustainable Development Goals (Wang and Ma, 2020). However, there is a lack of models and clear guidelines about how infrastructure projects may support and integrate sustainable development (Brauch, 2017). This research seeks to close the existing gap by exploring PPPs from the initial stages of conception and contracting through construction, operation, and maintenance. For this purpose, two case studies belonging to economic and social infrastructure were used. The information about the case studies was provided through official documents published in official tendering platforms, websites of the contracting authorities and the developers, web-conferences, as well as third party assessors of the sustainability of the projects. The objective is to analyze the projects’ implementation progress up to date, and the way sustainability principles have been implemented into them, as good practices to be followed. Finally, the practices are summarized in a list of recommendations which is structured based on the pillars of sustainable development: environment, society, economy, and governance. Besides the case studies, the research makes use of available literature like guidelines from the World Bank and the UN, books, and journals about the three main topics, infrastructure, PPPs, and sustainability.