CIDG creates and supports Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Poland, thus enabling more efficient absorption of the Structural Funds and implementation of long-term and capital intensive infrastructural investment projects.

PPP EQUALS PARTNERSHIP
- The PPP model has helped to successfully complete hundreds of infrastructural projects in the United States and Europe, also in the area of environmental protection and transport, with particular focus on financing from grants.
- Among beneficiaries were the regions, citizens, local economy.
- As argued by the European Commission, PPP may perform four primary tasks for the public sector, such as:

• ensuring additional funds
• ensuring alternative competence in the area of management and implementation, which facilitates and streamlines project implementation
• ensuring added value for the consumer and general public
• ensuring better identification of needs and optimum utilisation of resources.

-PPP consortia enable private investment partners to fund, construct and support income generating infrastructural improvements in exchange for the right to earn investment project-related income for a specific time.

 Key principles behind successful PPP projects in Europe and the US:

• The private sector must be confident that the investment projects will generate profit, as this is the condition for their participation
• The public sector must be confident that they receive good value for public money invested.
• The partnership works better if the partners have a clear understanding of their respective roles, trust one another and, better still, if they know one another...

The essence of the public-private partnership lies in the transparency and equality of all stakeholders of the project.
Two conditions must be met for a local government unit's responsibilities to be contracted out to a private partner.

• The project must be precisely defined, evaluated and settleable.
• The local government unit must have a right to intervene, or even modify the way tasks are performed, as long as there are no material deviations (deadline, quality), or as long as the scope is not changed (new needs of the local government unit). The right to intervene must be stipulated by the contract and be precisely defined in terms of the procedure.