An ad hoc planning committee will be appointed to plan a two-day public workshop focused on the facilitation of enabling environments conducive to the creation and sustainability of public-private partnerships at the national, municipal, and community levels. The workshop will focus on sharing models of engagement between private sector actors; in-country government PPP units and ministries; the intermediaries that enable these partnerships; and municipal and community-level business owners and intermediaries with the goals of defining the conditions necessary for businesses to partner and develop within a region and to share best practices of how to make a country or municipal area PPP-ready. The workshop will focus on lessons learned, and best practices within the following dimensions of partnership engagement:

Partnership Utility: Including the importance of partnerships between public, private, NGOs and civil society who work on the national, municipal, and community levels.

Partnership Operations: Including the enabling conditions necessary for national/international businesses and small to medium businesses/startups to establish strong partnerships with the public sector in order to facilitate greater sustainability and economic development at the national, municipal, and community levels, as well as an examination of the enabling conditions needed to create “win-win” national, municipal, and community level partnerships.

Partnership Accountability: Including the role of trust, relationship equity, and the regulatory environment in the context of partnerships at the national, municipal, and community levels.

The planning committee will develop the workshop agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings-in-brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.