Public-Private Partnership Dialogue (PPPD) case study provides multifaceted insights from the perspectives of different stakeholders within the Sub-National Government, business communities, and civil societies in order to foster partnership. Public-Private Partnership Dialogues (PPPD) provide ways to solve eminent problems based on the perspective of the actors involved in the dialogue. The paper examines how stakeholders practice open dialogue, co-create opportunities and build common action in implementing local as well as national level issues related to ensuring Public-Private Partnership in addressing developmental and governance-related issues in Nepal. The practice of PPD forms the core of the efforts of Accountability Lab in promoting democracy, fair business, and responsible leadership within the framework of federalization. Given that Nepal is undergoing local governance reform, it is key to ensure support for transparent business at the local level since its design stage. This paper is a result of a series of stakeholder mapping, measurement, and assessment of existing interest and willingness among local businesses to possible reforms; the parameters for possible PPPs; and the critical need for community engagement in the monitoring of these projects.

Governance in the subnational context is going to be decisive in determining the success of the Public-Private Partnership in Nepal. One of the critical areas for partnership among the public and private sectors is the mechanism for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects. Following the federalization, PPP is equally crucial in easing out the government that is burdened with federalization execution challenges. In the context of Biratnagar Metropolitan City, key reform priorities are needed for the effective implementation of these projects in collaboration with provincial and local governments. The PPP Project will require keen interest and need to be the priority of the sub-national governments to invest in these projects. And to get a better deal from such PPP projects, the local government will need to analyze risks properly and emphasize the project’s sustainability as well as include local participation in the decision making.