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. 2024 Feb 27;13:8008. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.8008

Table 1. PPPs Studied, the Private and Public Actors Involved, the Programs Related to Them and the Aims .

Programa Centros de Hidratación/Programa Nacional de Bebederos Escolares (2011-2018)
Partners Arca Continental, Coca-Cola México, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Escuelas Sustentables A.C., Fundación Bepensa, Fundación Coca-Cola, State school construction institutes (INIFED local authorities), and Secretariat of Education (SEP local authorities).
Geographical Areas Several states throughout the country including Ciudad de México, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Nuevo León, and Quintana Roo.
Objectives Programa Centros de Hidratación
To provide safe and potable water to schools by installing water fountains in pre-schools, primary and secondary schools, mainly in rural and indigenous communities, helping to improve health of students, teachers and community members. The priority has been in the poorest areas of the country.
Programa Nacional de Bebederos SEP/INIFED
(Part of the Education Reform before 2016 as part of “Escuelas Dignas” and after 2016 as “Escuelas al CIEN” executed and evaluated by INIFED)One of the specific objectives of the national Educational Reform is to install and maintain school drinking fountain systems that provide a continuous supply of drinking water in said schools, in accordance with the provisions issued by the INIFED.
Beneficiaries and impact Programa Centros de Hidratación has installed 1711 water fountains (Escuelas Sustentables website). According to INIFED they installed 13 326 water fountain systems where 2000 were provided by “alternative sources of funding” (INIFED accountability report 2012-2018).
Evaluation Only some reports by INIFED were available. Some numbers are provided.
Agua Saneamiento y Salud (2012-2020)
Partners CONAGUA, IDB, and PepsiCo.
Geographic area Pilot project: initially they identified rural communities in 4 municipalities in Estado de México, Michoacán, San Luis Potosí and Veracruz. We did not find information about other entities.
Objectives PRODI– CONAGUA/IDB
The objective is to seek development schemes aimed at providing drinking water to dispersed populations.
Beneficiaries and impact UD$ 5 million from PepsiCo for 850 000 beneficiaries (in total until 2025) initially.
Between 2011-2016 – US$ 7 million for 772 181 beneficiaries.
Evaluation Yes, bi-annual reports are available in IDB page, nevertheless a report on the impact of the program is not available neither in the IDB portal nor provided when filing a FOI request to CONAGUA.
Ponte al 100 (2013- 2020)
Partners CONADE, CONDEBA, Secretariat of Health, Secretariat of Education (national and sub-national level), Industria Mexicana Coca-Cola, Fundación Coca-Cola, Fundación Movimiento es Salud A.C., Federación Mexicana de Medicina del Deporte, Fundación Azteca, Fundación Carlos Slim, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Instituto de Salud Pública de la Universidad Anáhuac,
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, MOVISA, Policía Federal, Tecnológico Nacional de México, and The Aspen Insitute.
Geographical area Estado de México for the first 3 years with 105 schools, and later many others. Operation in 29 states by 2014 (SEP Progress Report, September 1, 2015) reducing its scope to 22 states in 2018.
Objective The objective of Ponte al 100 is to guide the general population through three main paths: measure how the body is doing (diagnoses), evaluate how fit a person is, and prescribe exercise and a diet individually to change habits.
Beneficiaries and impact According to Coca-Cola, more than 4 million diagnoses have been conducted to more than 2.6 million people.
According to Coca-Cola 900 000 of 4700 schools have been attended through the program.
According to the Fundación Movimiento es Salud A.C. website, they have measured 2 569 393 boys and 2 601 032 girls.
Evaluation Yes, a performance evaluation by CONEVAL and a process evaluation done by consultants for CONADE on the “Programa de Cultura Física.” Also, CONADE and the General Directorate of Policy Evaluation of SEP conducted a diagnosis report of the “Programa S269 de Cultura Física y Deporte.
Nestlé por niños saludables (2006- 2020)
Partners DIF (local authorities), Nestlé, SEP (local authorities), and SSA.
Geographical area Estado de México, Guanajuato, Mexico City, and Veracruz.

Objectives
Nestlé por Niños Saludables (Nestlé for Healthier Kids) seeks, to promote the adoption of healthy living habits with children from 0 to 12 years of age through several programs and tools developed by the company(Nestlé Report 2016-2018).
Beneficiaries and impact Every year they train 650 000 children and 6000 schools and 1 million parents.
According to Nestlé they have reached 5 million children, 60 thousand parents and 10 000 teachers in 6000 schools (Nestlé website: https://www.nestle.com.mx/csv/iniciativas_globales/nxns; consulted February 11, 2020).
Evaluation Qualitative study by the private partner evaluating the change in knowledge after the intervention. No information provided through the FOI requests in the states where the program operates.

Abbreviations: PPPs, public-private partnerships; INIFED, Instituto Nacional de Infraestructura Física Educativa; SEP, Secretaría de Educación Pública; PRODI, Programa de Desarrollo Integral para Organismos Operadores de Agua Potable y Saneamiento; IDB, Inter-American Development Bank; CONAGUA, Comisión Nacional del Agua; CONADE, National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport; MOVISA, Movimiento por una Vida Saludable; DIF, Desarrollo Integral de la Familia; SSA, Secretariat of Health; CONDEBA, Consejo Nacional para el Desarrollo de la Educación Física y el Deporte en la Educación Básic; CONEVAL, Consejo Nacional para la Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social.