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BBC NEWS | UK | What are Public Private Partnerships?  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1518523.stm  A guide through the jargon in the new world of privately funded public projects.  The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships  - http://www.pppcouncil.ca  Supports the overlap between government and business and provides speakers, conducts research and holds an annual conference. Membership details, speeches, list of members, and information about events are presented.  IPPPH - The Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health  - http://www.ippph.org/  Provides detailed information on 80 public-private partnerships for health, up-to-date news and events on global health issues and a library of relevant publications. Offers web-based discussions on cutting-edge topics to authorized users.  The Private Finance (PFI) Portal  - http://www.privatefinance-i.com  Resources advocating Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Public Private Partnerships.  Public-Private Partnerships, IP3  - http://www.ip3.org/  The Institute for Public-Private Partnerships, Inc. (IP3) is an international training and consulting firm focusing on fostering public-private partnership opportunities in the environmental (water/sanitation and solid waste), energy, transportation, technology, and social sectors.  How Public-Private Partnerships Can Facilitate Public School Construction  - http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/Schools/BG1257.cfm  Backgrounder by Ronald Utt for the Heritage Foundation.  Special Report: Public Private Partnerships  - http://society.guardian.co.uk/ppp/0,10537,509342,00.html  Series of articles from the Guardian newspaper.  Ontario Health Coalition -- P3s  - http://www.web.net/~ohc/P3s.htm  Series of articles, papers, fact sheets, media releases and other documents critical of the use of Private Public Partnerships and Private Finance Inititives to provide health care services.  The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships  - http://ncppp.org/  News articles, papers and other resources from this American body promoting P3s.  Private Finance Initiative (PFI)  - http://www.unison.org.uk/pfi/index.asp  The case against PFIs presented by the UNISON trade union.  PFI Resources  - http://society.guardian.co.uk/privatefinance/0,8145,390100,00.html  Articles and reports on the Private Finance Initiative from the Guardian newspaper.  Funding Hospital Infrastructure: Why P3s Don't Work, and What Will  - http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/p3-hospitals-summary.html  Study for the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives by Lewis Auerbach, Arthur Donner, Douglas D. Peters, Monica Townson, and Armine Yalnizyan.  Public-private partnerships and the poor in water and sanitation  - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cv/wedc/projects/ppp-poor/  Study from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University.  The Private Finance Initiative in the NHS  - http://www.centre.public.org.uk/briefings/pfi.html  Report from the Centre for Public Services on the use of PFI to build hospitals for Britain's National Health Service.  Public-Private Partnerships Reality Check  - http://www.healthcoalition.ca/realitycheck5.html  Fact sheet from the Canadian Health Coalition and links to other reports and resources.  Beware Another P3 Scam  - http://www.alternatives.ca/article686.html  Murray Dobbin warns against the use of a Public Private Partnership to build a rapid transit line in British Columbia.