A Study on the Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Projects of International Development Cooperation - UNDP and KOICAs Practices

Abstract

The Public-Private Partnership of international development cooperation, which promotes the participation of private sector in the international development projects, is becoming more important as extended international agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals could not be fulfilled by the governments efforts alone. In this regard, the thesis is written with three major objectives. First of all, the concept of PPP in the area of international development cooperation is introduced and the increased importance of the private sector to the PPP projects for addressing key global agendas is analyzed in order to identify the significance of PPP. Secondly, two levels of comparative analyses are performed. To find specific characteristics and advantages of the PPP project, some of the successful PPP projects are compared with the ODA projects which are implemented by two representative development agencies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). Given that the UN highlighted the importance of PPP for addressing the extended global agendas and provided various guidelines for this cross-sectoral partnership, the practices of the UNDP, which is an affiliated organization of the UN, is assumed to be sharing and following the UNs guidelines. Therefore, the cases of the UNDP could be referred to as one of the best representative cases of international PPP projects. Also, as a major Korean development agency, KOICAs practices are analyzed as well, as Koreas best PPP practice. Last but not least, the second level analysis compared the best practices of the UNDP and KOICAs PPP projects, by applying the concept of Collective Impact and its five conditions, so as to discover the success factors and suggest future development directions.