The Programme did not succeed in establishing sustainable PPP arrangements. Most activities and stakeholders participation may not continue if new funding is not injected. The lack of sustainability can be ascribed to a range of different factors: limited political support, ineffective learning strategies and processes, insufficient knowledge sharing, inadequate arrangements to consolidate, mainstream and upscale the pilot projects.
Most importantly, no exit strategy was put in place during the design of the Programme and of the pilot projects. The problem seems to be related to the fact that the focus of the Programme has not been on the creation of the necessary conditions for sustainability and replicability but on the implementation of pilot projects. As a consequence, it can be stated that the PPP arrangements put in place in the pilot local authorities should be seen more as a project rather than as a sustainable and replicable development directed at integrating new public service delivery arrangements into local authorities' core functions.