Overview

This innovative book addresses the links between sustainability and human rights in the context of infrastructure projects and uncovers the human rights gap in every stage of public procurement processes to deliver on infrastructure assets or services. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars and legal practitioners, this comprehensive book addresses a gap in the literature on the role of human rights within highly complex contracts, such as public-private partnerships (PPPs), in infrastructure development. Chapters analyse key human rights issues across the life cycle of projects using case studies that investigate communities, service users and workers in public procurement supply chains as human rights holders. Further, it explores the issues facing women as different role-players – namely as workers, service users, decision-makers and government suppliers. Case studies include procurement of healthcare infrastructure and megasporting events. The editors also propose solutions and new ways forward in the advancement of the sustainable public procurement agenda, both for developed and developing countries, to deliver infrastructure that brings social return without harming human rights. Developing more inclusive approaches to infrastructure that address rightsholders and stakeholders – including communities, workers, service users, and particularly women – this book will be a thought-provoking resource for scholars and students, as well as for human rights lawyers, advocates and policy makers alike.

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Author:   Olga Martin-Ortega ,  Laura Treviño-Lozano
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781802205503

ISBN 10:   1802205500
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   31 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword xii Roberto Caranta PART I LINKING HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE 1 Sustainable public procurement of infrastructure and human rights: linkages and gaps 2 Laura Treviño-Lozano and Olga Martin-Ortega 2 Access to infrastructure as a human right: making public– private partnerships work for the people 28 George Nwangwu 3 A 360-degree approach to women’s inclusion in infrastructure 60 Cristina Contreras Casado 4 Financing infrastructure procurement and workers’ rights: the role of regional development banks 86 Miriam Mbah and Ama Eyo PART II BUILDING HOSPITALS FOR PEOPLE 5 Development, infrastructure and human rights: the role of human rights impact assessments 112 Josua Loots 6 Interventions in hospital construction: early action for the realisation of human rights 140 Annabel Elise Short 7 The mismatch of public–private partnerships and the right to health 160 Johanna Hoekstra and Luis Felipe Yanes PART III FOR THE GAME: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEGA-SPORTING EVENTS 8 Human rights risks and opportunities in mega-sporting event procurement 195 William Rook and Daniela Heerdt 9 Human rights and developmental considerations in procuring for Africa’s first World Cup 215 Geo Quinot PART IV CONCLUSIONS 10 Beyond building green: putting people at the core of sustainable procurement of infrastructure 238 Olga Martin-Ortega and Laura Treviño-Lozano Index

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'The book Sustainable Public Procurement of Infrastructure and Human Rights: Beyond Building Green, edited by Olga Martin-Ortega and Laura Trevino Lozano is a comprehensive and well-written compilation on a very important issue that has not received significant academic attention. The book considers the importance of sustainability in infrastructure procurement from a wide range of perspectives, examining the gaps in sustainable procurement, the different modalities of infrastructure procurement, different sectors (economic infrastructure, sports and health), and the human rights risks inherent in infrastructure procurement. The book in particular, considers the involvement of the private sector and donors in the provision of infrastructure, highlighting how the private sector and donor inputs can be harnessed to improve the sustainability and mitigate human rights risks in infrastructure procurement. The book considers practical ways to mitigate human rights risks in infrastructure procurement, focusing on risk assessment, a gendered analysis and a developmental perspective. In the context of Covid-19 recovery and meeting the Sustainable development goals, the book could not be more timely, needed and welcome.' -- Sope Williams, University of Nottingham, UK

‘The book Sustainable Public Procurement of Infrastructure and Human Rights: Beyond Building Green, edited by Olga Martin-Ortega and Laura Treviño-Lozano is a comprehensive and well-written compilation on a very important issue that has not received significant academic attention. The book considers the importance of sustainability in infrastructure procurement from a wide range of perspectives, examining the gaps in sustainable procurement, the different modalities of infrastructure procurement, different sectors (economic infrastructure, sports and health), and the human rights risks inherent in infrastructure procurement. The book in particular, considers the involvement of the private sector and donors in the provision of infrastructure, highlighting how the private sector and donor inputs can be harnessed to improve the sustainability and mitigate human rights risks in infrastructure procurement. The book considers practical ways to mitigate human rights risks in infrastructure procurement, focusing on risk assessment, a gendered analysis and a developmental perspective. In the context of Covid-19 recovery and meeting the Sustainable development goals, the book could not be more timely, needed and welcome.’ -- Sope Williams, University of Nottingham, UK

Author Information

Edited by Olga Martin-Ortega, Professor of International Law and Director of the Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group (BHRE), School of Law, University of Greenwich and Laura Treviño-Lozano, Early Stage Researcher of SAPIENS Network, University of Greenwich, UK

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