Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE), a Yale/UNDP program, is a global, collaborative learning effort to collect, analyze and disseminate lessons learned on the use of public/private partnerships to improve the delivery of urban environmental services in developing countries.

The partnership between Yale and UNDP grew out of UNDP's need to involve more private businesses in solving urban environmental issues and the School's research on how private investment can be used to improve environmental performance. It is one part of a “Global Learning Network” involving individuals and institutions around the world.

Its activities include:

· A web page designed and written by PPPUE and Yale

· Interactive, web-based databases on public-private partnerships designed by PPPUE and Yale, and maintained by graduate researchers at Yale

· Publications, training materials, policy and research papers prepared by PPPUE personnel, faculty and graduate researchers at Yale, and other collaborators

· A collaborative learning course designed and led by Yale personnel, but involving over 15 universities and 350 students around the world

· Application of the lessons learned through work with UNDP country offices by PPPUE and Yale personnel.

The ultimate goals of these activities are to:

· Introduce students to urban environmental issues, as well as the opportunities – and limits – of using partnerships as a tool for improving performance

· Build local capacity for using public-private collaborations to address priority urban environmental issues

· Collect additional cases, contacts and documents for analysis and distillation of lessons learned, followed by their dissemination through the web-based, UNDP databases, as well as course materials and related publications

· Refine the core teaching materials based on regular input from the course participants

Learn more about PPPUE by clicking here.