VIRTUAL EVENT: Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships book launch
This webinar will launch the newly-published book ‘Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships’.
VIRTUAL EVENT: Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships book launch
05 Feb 2021, 13:30 – 15:15
COVID-19 has emphasised the need to look carefully at public private partnerships (PPPs) and the ways in which PPPs are being used as a response to many of the challenges resulting from the pandemic.
What are the challenges for PPPs? Should we be concerned about the role being assigned to PPPs in the post-COVID landscape in terms of ‘building back better’ agendas? What does this mean for inequalities?
These issues will be discussed with the authors of ‘Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships.’ The authors will also discuss the ways that PPPs have operated across different sectors, and will consider the potential implications of their future role.
The studies in this newly-published book argue that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is little evidence to support the presumed benefits of PPPs in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services.
The book adopts a cross-sectoral comparative approach to investigate how PPPs have played out in practice, and what the implications have been for inequalities.
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Jasmine Gideon
Reader in Gender, Health, and International Development
the Department of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London
Jasmine's current research focuses on the gendered implications of contemporary trends in privatisation of healthcare, including PPPs. She was the Principal Investigator on an ESRC Global Challenges Research funded strategic network ‘Equalities in Public Private Partnerships’ (EQUIPPPs).
Professor of Education and International Development
the UCL Institute of Education
Elaine is also Co-Director of the Centre for Education and International Development. She has written extensively on addressing intersecting inequalities in education and has led research projects looking at gender and education change in a number of countries in Africa and South Asia.
Sonia Languille
Research Fellow
the Centre for Education and International Development, UCL Institute of Education
Sonia works with the Education Program at the Open Society Foundations where she oversees the program’s work to support refugees’ access to higher education and knowledge production in the global South.
Philip Alston
Director and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
Philip is an international lawyer whose research and teaching interests focus primarily on human rights law and the law of international organisations. Philip served as the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights from 2014-2020. He was previously UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions from 2004 to 2010 in which capacity he undertook numerous fact-finding missions.
Rama Baru
Professor
the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rama has taught the Masters in Public Health, MPhil and PhD programmes in the Centre for 25 years and is an honorary fellow with the Institute of Chinese Studies. She is also an Honorary Professor at India Studies Centre, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
María José Romero
Policy and Advocacy Manager
Eurodad (European Network on Debt and Development)
María is a PhD candidate in Development Economics at SOAS University of London. Her research project is on the global promotion of public private partnerships (PPPs) in health and education.
Since 2012, she has worked on publicly-backed private finance and development finance institutions at Eurodad, a Brussels-based non-governmental organisation. This includes extensive work on PPPs and blended finance at the European and global level.
She has a Master’s degree in political science from the University of the Republic of Uruguay.
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Cost
Free
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All
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