PPP

14 Nov 2025

10:52AM

INSIDER VIEW | Preventing corruption in PPPs

Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) are meant to improve the lives of Filipinos—the very purpose of all government projects. PPPs unite public purpose and private innovation to accelerate infrastructure development and service delivery based on performance.

3 Nov 2025

2:03PM

INSIDER VIEW | Decoding availability payments for PPPs

By: Alberto Agra

To sustain any partnership, both contracting parties must contribute. There must be a genuine exchange of resources. The implementing agency and the private sector must both have “skin in the game” to gauge how invested each party is, and to exact accountability from each other.

20 Oct 2025

11:02AM

INSIDER VIEW | PPP of and with the People is bayanihan

By: Alberto Agra

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are often framed as contractual or financial arrangements or mechanisms that enable collaboration between the government and the private sector in the delivery of infrastructure and services.

8 Oct 2025

1:04PM

INSIDER VIEW | Fast-tracking ROW to drive PPP acceleration

By: Alberto Agra

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) thrive on certainty. Investors, contractors, and financiers will not commit billions of pesos without a stable and predictable legal and institutional environment.

29 Sep 2025

10:53AM

INSIDER VIEW | Justifying a 99-year PPP contract

By: Alberto Agra

Can a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project legally run for up to 99 years? This is a recurring question among government agencies and private proponents alike.

26 Sep 2025

1:54PM

APECO, Freya Trading tie up to equip Super Health Center in Aurora

The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (APECO) has partnered with medical device distributor Freya Trading Inc. to fully equip and operationalize the APECO Super Health Center in Casiguran, Aurora.

19 Sep 2025

7:08PM

Public-private partnerships seen key to PH healthcare reform

By: Vanessa B. Hidalgo

To address the long-standing health inequities affecting Filipinos, the government is leveraging the scale and expertise of the private sector to cultivate collective leadership and drive innovative solutions to the many challenges facing the healthcare system.

17 Sep 2025

4:58PM

INSIDER VIEW | PPPs and REITs: Unlocking value from public assets

By: Alberto Agra

While each has independently proven effective, PPPs and REITs, when strategically combined, have the potential to unlock enormous value from underutilized public assets.

11 Sep 2025

7:29AM

INSIDER VIEW | Empowering barangays through PPPs

By: Alberto Agra

Even with their relatively small territorial jurisdiction and limited powers compared to provinces, cities, and municipalities, barangays are duty-bound to create meaningful opportunities to improve the lives of their constituents