A public–public partnership (PuP) is a partnership between a government body or public authority and another such body or a non-profit organization to provide services and/or facilities, sometimes with the goal of transferring technical skills and expertise within international development projects.
Partners can include other local, regional, state, provincial, first nations or aboriginal governments, national or federal governments, school boards, parks boards, non-governmental organizations, unions, pension funds, professional organizations, and governments, labour, non-governmental organizations and community groups in developing countries.
PPPs involve governments contracting corporations to design, build, finance, maintain and operate public projects like schools, hospitals and bridges.
The Yokohama Waterworks Bureau first started training partnerships in the 1980s to help staff in other Asian countries.
[5] Since European research policy considered itself as 'Open to the World',[6] several third-countries participate in these ERA-Nets and Joint Programming Initiatives.