Most economies apply build-operate-transfer (BOT) and similar arrangements:
- Build-Lease-Maintain-Transfer (BLMT)
- Build-Lease-Operate-Maintain-Transfer (BLMOT)
- Build-Lease-Transfer (BLT)
- Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)
- Build-Own-Operate (BOO)
- Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT)
- Build-Transfer (BT)
- Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO)
- Contract-Add-Operate (CAO)
- Design-Build-Finance (DBF)
- Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM)
- Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM)
- Design-Construction-Financing-Operation-Maintenance (DCFOM)
- Development-Operate-Transfer (DOT)
- Operate and Transfer (OT)
- Rehabilitate-Operate-Transfer (ROT)
Other options for PPPs are also used, such as concessions, sales of assets, joint venture, management contract, and outsourcing, as carried out by Peru; or Process Plant Model and Usage Model, as undertaken by Malaysia; and privatization as in Papua New Guinea.