GOAL OF SECTION This section provides an analytical tool to help project participants-governments, advisors, and private investors alike-ensure that PPP projects improve equality between women and men. |
" If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. - Peter Drucker |
Section one of this primer focused on providing a base understanding of key concepts and ideas related to gender equality and infrastructure. Building from there, section two aimed to give the reader an understanding of the mechanisms and processes that can be used to ensure that infrastructure projects not only "do no harm" to women or men, but also create positive benefits for both. Section three further built on this by providing the reader with brief and practical guidance on how to systematically integrate gender considerations into PPP projects and frameworks, in a way that promotes a strong results chain linking analysis, action, monitoring and evaluation. This section provides an analytical tool to help project participants-governments, advisors, and private investors alike-ensure that PPP projects improve equality between women and men.
Private investors often rely on the government to consider and address issues relevant to ensuring that a project is inclusive of both genders. Government often relies on the private sector to address these issues as fundamental to service delivery of the project. A PPP project provides an opportunity to join public and private capacities to focus on issues relevant to women. PPP projects must be commercially and financially viable. If governments need private investors to provide additional support or services to meet the needs of women, they may need to provide additional incentives. For example, PPP payments can be linked to performance and services for women. Likewise, if the private partner performs poorly, financial penalties within the PPP contract may apply.