The Gender PPP toolkit serves as a comprehensive guide for governments, upstream advisors, practitioners, multilateral organizations, and private sector stakeholders. It is designed to provide practical, systematic guidance for making Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) gender-responsive across all stages of the project cycle. By leveraging existing valuable resources, the toolkit offers stakeholders a structured approach to integrating gender considerations into PPP frameworks, ensuring inclusivity and equality throughout the process.
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) play a vital role in the development of sustainable infrastructure and the achievement of gender equality. Well-designed PPPs not only improve service delivery, incentivize efficiency gains, and enhance funding but also support women's economic participation and reduce time spent on household chores, leading to increased productivity, higher incomes, and poverty reduction.
The integration of measures addressing women's needs in PPPs promotes gender equality, strengthening socioeconomic impacts. Understanding diverse user needs ensures responsive infrastructure projects that meet the entire population's demands. PPPs can provide equal employment opportunities, fostering gender-balanced employment and economic growth. The Gender PPP toolkit comprehensively outlines how PPPs can be designed to promote gender equality, thereby broadening their socioeconomic impacts.
The business case for gender mainstreaming in infrastructure is compelling. Beyond its intrinsic value as a core development objective, gender equality proves to be smart economics. Removing barriers for women not only leads to productivity gains but also contributes to positive development outcomes. Gender mainstreaming in infrastructure promotes equitable access, poverty reduction, and social inclusion, enhancing the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of infrastructure projects.
The Gender PPP toolkit, developed by the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) and Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), serves as a comprehensive guide for governments, upstream advisors, PPP practitioners, multilateral development banks (MDBs), and private sector stakeholders. Its primary objective is to facilitate the mainstreaming of gender considerations in infrastructure PPPs. The Gender toolkit is designed to offer practical, systematic guidance on making PPPs gender-responsive throughout the various stages of the project cycle. It leverages existing valuable resources, providing stakeholders with a structured approach to incorporating gender considerations into PPP frameworks.
