Corporate Responsibility and Women’s Human Rights: A Feminist Analytical Approach to Public-Private Partnerships

Since the 2000s, development strategies have placed particular emphasis on infrastructure as a mechanism capable of initiating production and attracting investment. Since 2014 this has been reinforced by the development strategy based on the Plan Sénégal Émergent (Emerging Senegal Plan) PSE, which has made it possible to implement priority economic reforms and investment projects opening the way to growth while preserving the economy and debt viability. Financing is a major problem, in the face of the breathlessness of the budgetary machine and the constraints of compliance with a rate of indebtedness in conformity with convergence criteria. This context rendered resorting to public-private partnerships unavoidable. Senegal has relied on an attractive regulatory and institutional framework to make PublicPrivate Plans (PPP) a privileged means of financing while respecting social equilibrium. Unfortunately, the system has not been as effective in preventing the inefficiency of private action and respect for women’s human rights and the environment.
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