Governments tend to create a PPP unit as a response to prior criticisms of the implementation of P3 projects in their country.
The World Bank defines a PPP Unit as an organization that “promotes or improves PPPs.
These institutions played a central role in establishing P3s as the "new normal" for public infrastructure procurements in the country.
[5] In contrast, the Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Center (1999) suffered from a lack of formal or informal power, and so was involved in less than half of the 3P projects developed in the country.
[3] Some have questioned the usefulness of creating P3 units, as everything in their mandate could theoretically be accomplished by the government ministry responsible for public infrastructure.