Corporations across the globe are capturing more and more of the public sphere, encroaching on all aspects of people’s lives.

Public-Private Partnerships have become a powerful tool to achieve what is starting to look like the privatisation of life itself.

Feminist researchers from the Global South have spent a year researching this theme in their home countries, from Fiji to Senegal, from Mexico to India to produce a series of articles on the theme.

Together they compose a panorama of the state of PPPs today, filled with analysis and critique, looking at effects and consequences to women’s lives and communities’ wellbeing, all in the name of so-called development.

Opacity, corruption and vast sums of money in international contracts often signed behind closed doors, away from the public’s view.