Formation 2006 Legal status 501(c)(3) nonprofit President/CEO David Stillman, PhD | Type NGO Location New York | |
Motto Public-Private Partnerships For Sustainable Development | ||
The Public Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to reducing poverty in the world by bringing together business, governmental, community, academic, United Nations and other interests. Through collaboration, PPAF helps stimulate public-private partnerships, entrepreneurship and commerce-related activities while encouraging investment for sustainable development. PPAF aims to make a difference in people's lives and livelihoods.
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History
The Public-Private Alliance Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 donor-supported corporation headquartered in New York. It is associated with the United Nations and the United Nations Global Compact. It aims to reduce poverty by networking with business, government, academia, the financial community, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN entities and others. The foundation helps stimulate entrepreneurship and investment for sustainable development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It works in several program areas including agribusiness, renewable energy, health and microfinance. Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Madagascar are focus countries.
Dr. David Stillman serves as the executive director of the foundation. As a UN staff member, Dr. Stillman worked with intergovernmental bodies and UN agencies on development, relief and reconstruction. Posted to Pakistan with the UN Development Program, he previously worked in Togo, Ghana and Kenya. He holds an MA and PhD (Political Science) from Duke University.
The Public-Private Alliance Foundation has held three Partners Against Poverty meetings at the United Nations (2007, 2008, 2009), focusing on its program areas and the Millennium Development Goals. Foundation activities are covered in the 2009 report to the UN Economic and Social Council.
Agribusiness
The Public-Private Alliance Foundation works with local non-profits and businesses to take action for sustainable development. The foundation convened an international conference on fish farming in the Dominican Republic in December 2007 and since has supported follow-up. In March 2010 the foundation collaborated with the Dominican Aquaculture Association (ADOA) and others to hold a national workshop on Strategies for Development of Dominican Aquaculture (2010 - 2015). It has also worked with Dominican vegetable and fruit producers to promote quality products for local consumption and export.
Health
PPAF facilitated a needs assessment in 2008 by Project C.U.R.E. with the Ministry of Health and an NGO in Madagascar. This resulted in delivery of over $400,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies to several hospitals and clinics in 2009. Additional shipments are planned, with a total value of medical equipment and supplies shipped to Madagascar being $1.2 million.
Microfinance / microcredit
PPAF has worked in Madagascar and the Dominican Republic to help build and support microfinance institutions and to strengthen the potential relations of remittances and microfinance. PPAF worked with the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the Dominican government to organize a 2006 regional conference on remittances, whose results were published by the UN General Assembly. Microfinance is an important element of the clean cookstoves project in Haiti.
Renewable energy
The foundation began to work in biofuels and bioenergy in 2008 in the Dominican Republic and at its Second Annual Partners Against Poverty conference at the United Nations. In 2009 PPAF organized four conferences related to ethanol, biofuels and bioenergy - two at the UN and two in the D.R. The May event at the UN focused on sugar-based ethanol and brought representation from the D.R., Brazil, US and Haiti. The June event on bio-fuels focused on challenges and opportunities for financing.
In Santo Domingo, D.R., the National Energy Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and local businesses co-sponsored the events. These meetings brought to local participants concepts from the earlier meetings, and combined these with the aims of the recently enacted Dominican Law 57-07 for the promotion of renewable energy.
PPAF is now working with several partners including Project Gaia (a non-profit), Dometic Group (manufacturer), SImACT, Inc., (distributor), and others, to introduce ethanol cookstoves into Haiti. The project will use locally produced sugar-based ethanol as fuel for stoves made and distributed in Haiti. The focus is on improving health, limiting deforestation, reducing costs and aiming toward self-sustaining jobs in this business sector. PPAF is a member of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air.
The foundation has also provided a small grant to a school in Madagascar for solar panels.