ISSN 2039-2117 (online) ISSN 2039-9340 (print) Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy Vol 7 No 2 March 2016 149 Motives and Motivation for Implementation of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Housing Provision in Nigeria Paschal Onyemaechi PhD Candidate at Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Beckett University, UK Paschaldozie2002@yahoo.com Martin Samy Professor of CSR and Effective Measurement, Faculty of Business and Law Leeds Beckett University, UK m.a.samy@leedsbeckett.ac.uk Doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2p149 Abstract Purpose – The federal government of Nigeria in December 2011 formally adopted Public Private Partnership (PPP) as an alternative housing delivery option for Nigeria. However, evidence from available literature indicates there is the lack of empirical evidence on how the private and public sector can be better motivated to achieve improved results in PPP housing. The research therefore, investigated the Motives and Motivation for partnership between public and private sector in housing provision in Nigeria. The specific objectives are to identify and examine the motivating factors for the partnership of public and private sector operators in housing provision in Nigeria and examine how these factors can be enhanced to achieve better outcome for PPP housing in Nigeria. Methodology – A total of 24 housing PPP experts from both public and private sectors operators directly involved in the selected 8 case studies were selected and interviewed. Findings: The study indicates that derive to provide affordable housing, develop towns and cities, reduce acute housing shortage, eliminating of budget constraint, profit making and faster project completion are the motives and motivating factors for the government in PPP housing in Nigeria while the motivating factors for the private sector includes profit maximisation, large demand market, fast approvals. The study also indicated that to enhance these factors, there is need for a reform of the PPP housing policy to encourage and support private sector participation. Recommendation/Implication: The findings of the study implies that there is need to amend the PPP laws and policy with a view to encouraging and supporting the participation of the private sector in housing provision. Keywords: Public private partnerships, Housing, Motives, Motivation, Nigeria. Introduction 1. Housing is recognized world-wide as one of the basic necessities of life and a prerequisite to survival of man (Onibokun, 1990; UNCHS, 1996; Waziri and Roosli, 2013). It is an important component of human settlement and contributes to the quality of life, health, welfare as well as productivity of man (Ibem, 2010). The renowned economist Abraham Maslow ranks housing as basic need of man in his theory of hierarchy of needs (Erguden, 2001; UN-Habitat, 2006a). According a report by the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UNHSP, 2011), it is estimated that more than half of the world six billion people now live in cities, towns and other urban centres and current trend predicts that this will continue to increase. According to the report, over 90 percent urbanization has occurred in developing countries, with urban area receiving additional estimated 70 million new residents each year (UNHSP, 2011) This trend is especially prevalent in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the two poorest regions in the world, where urban population is expected to double by the year 2030.(UNHSP, 2011) .The desire for adequate and affordable housing also has strong link to the need for security, safety and poor socio-economic status of individuals and communities (Ibem, 2011) In spite of this widely acknowledged importance of housing and various efforts in making adequate and affordable housing available to majority of people, a large proportion of urban residents in less developed and developing countries do not have access to decent housing at affordable cost (Sengupta, 2006b; UN-Habitat, 2006a; Abdullahi, 2010; Ibem, 2011). As majority of urban residents in developing countries live in slums and poor housing condition (Rondinelli, 1990; UN-Habitat, 2006d; Ibem, 2011). Hence, inadequate housing has become a major challenge that has continued to receive attention from government and groups in many developing countries. For instance, investigation from previous studies reveal that successive administration in Nigeria had launched about eight public housing programme in the last few decades in the