应成员国要求，欧洲经委会公私伙伴关系工作队分析了全球公私伙伴关系中的腐败例子。有一种共识是，相对于薄弱的法律和糟糕的机构等其他因素，政府层面腐败现象多发是阻碍通过公私伙伴关系为可持续发展目标筹资的模式扩大的一个最重要因素。例如，经合组织估计，2014 年，贿赂占全球公共采购交易总值的10.9%。世界银行称，全世界每年支付的与公共采购有关的贿赂数额为 1 万亿美元。
As requested by member States, the ECE Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships has analysed examples of corruption in public-private partnerships globally. There is a consensus that, relative to other factors, such as weak laws and poor institutions, the single most salient factor thwarting the scaling-up of the public-private partnerships model for financing the Sustainable Development Goals was the high instance of corruption at the level of governments. For instance, OECD estimates that bribes consumed 10.9 per cent of the total transaction value in public procurement globally in 2014. According to the World Bank, bribes paid in connection with public procurement amount to $1 trillion per year around the world.