agreement formed between public and private sector partners, which allows more private sector participation than is traditional. The agreements usually involve a government agency contracting with a pany to renovate, construct, operate,maintain, and/or manage a facility or system...., ”. Similar ‘ definitions ’ are given from the perspective of the contractual arrangement (e.g. Infrastructure Australia,2008; Yong, 2010). After a critical review of current literature on defining PPP, Brinkerhoff and Brinkerhoff (2011) alleged that, function-specific definitions of PPP (e.g. Grimsey and Lewis,\2004, 2005; Koppenjan, 2005), which focus on provision of infrastructure financing, construction, operation and maintenance, are of little help in delineating the key features of PPP.