"Well designed PPPs – capturing the best the private sector can offer in terms of innovation and transfer of skills, efficient operation and mobilization of capital – need to be at the center of governments' strategies to achieve universal access goals and reliable power to foster economic development. [...]"

Isabel Marques de Sa , Chief Investment Officer, IFC - World Bank Group

"Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are crucial for achieving the goals set down by the UN Secretary General in his ‘sustainable energy for all' initiative. A key task is to identify the best practice models for public-private cooperation that can help achieve the three objectives of the global initiative. [...]"

Geoffrey Hamilton , Chief, Cooperation and Partnerships Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

“It is critical for UN Member States and country teams to create and sustain partnerships with the private sector if we are to radically change our energy systems.”

Kandeh K. Yumkella , Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Energy for All (UN) As cited in the joint GSEP-UN-Energy Strengthening PPP Survey report (2012)

“The power infrastructure has a crucial role to play in ensuring sustainable development and optimal utilization of a country's natural resources. We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional [...]"

Debajit Palit , Associate Director and Fellow, Lighting a Billion Lives Programme , The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI)