Comparison of public private partnership at central administration level in Turkey and Benin

The urgency of public private partnerships in the 1990s facilitated the financing of large-scale projects by States. This mechanism for financing public services established by the cooperation of the public and private sectors, enables the implementation of projects to solve the needs of citizens. Benin and Turkey, like many states, use public-private partnerships to finance infrastructure projects and public services, in order to provide quality and efficient public services to their citizens. Thus, it is thanks to the public-private partnership system that many projects, which are aimed to facilitate the daily life of citizens in health, transport, energy and education sectors have been implemented. However, the organizational structure and legal framework of public-private partnerships differ depending on the experiences of the countries and their ability to realize the projects. In Turkey, the cooperation between public and private sectors dates back to the period before the First World War. With this experience, many public-private partnership projects have been successfully implemented since 1992. Therefore, Turkey is one of the most experienced countries in the implementation of public private partnership projects. Although many projects have been implemented through public-private partnerships, there is no general law regarding the types of public-private partnerships implemented in Turkey, and yet, no central institution responsible for project management. In Benin, the first public-private partnership projects were carried out in the 2000s. Since then, few projects were implemented despite a general law regarding public-private partnerships, and a central institution for the management of public-private partnerships.