[Excerpt] This guidebook is intended to help government and public sector organizations in developing a public–private partnership (PPP) project or enterprise in hospital management. The lessons and insights shared here are based on actual experiences of a technical assistance team in Sarangani and Camarines Norte provinces (in the Philippines) in the development of PPPs in hospital management in the preparatory stage. While this guidebook is mostly based on experiences with local governments in the Philippines, readers from both the public and private sectors and outside the Philippines will find the insights that it contains to be useful, and in many instances, directly applicable.