Why Public-Private Partnership ?
Public-Private Partnership Is a Key To Improving The Performance Of The Public Sector
Services, not assets, are the focus of public-private partnerships. The government does not need to own infrastructure or provide relevant services to the government, with the government remaining in charge of essential operations and services. Working together, the government and private sector can achieve particular goals and standards. When the public and private sectors share their strategies and policies, the public and private sectors work together more effectively. Because of the collaboration with the private sector, the government may invest little resources while reaping maximum benefits.
In a public-private partnership, the government plays an important role in developing effective policies that benefit both the public and private sectors. Identify the opportunities and clearly describe the goal. They develop strategies to reach the targets once the plans and goals have been established. The government ensures that the procurement process is transparent and fair. Customers' and the general public's interests must also be protected.
"Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can be a mechanism for getting greater quality infrastructure services to more people," according to the World Bank. PPPs can improve the efficiency and sustainability of public services such as energy, transportation, telecommunications, water, healthcare, and education when well-designed and implemented in a regulatory environment with a balanced regulatory environment. PPPs can also help public and private entities better allocate risk."
A deal between the government and the private sector to provide public goods and services by the deadline. It entails private financing, infrastructure construction, and management, among other things. The commercial partner invests in the application software design, development, implementation, and operations, while the government is responsible for providing services to citizens. The private sector only works to make more money with fewer resources, whereas the public sector does not seek to make the most money because the primary goal of the public sector is to give the finest services to citizens.
E-government implementation necessitates a large amount of technical and financial resources. Public-private partnerships have emerged as a feasible approach, allowing the business sector to contribute sufficient finances and skills to e-government projects. In November 2007, Pakistan's government issued its first public-private partnership strategy, with the goal of promoting public-private partnerships in the country in order to provide more efficient, cheap, and timely infrastructure services. The commercial sector imposes its own policies on the public sector in order to make it more effective and timely in delivering services. As an independent financial organisation for PPP projects, the government is considering forming an Infrastructure Project Financing Fund.
“As a cornerstone of my policy, we will substantially expand public-private partnerships to maximize the amount of investment and funding that is available for space exploration and development”. (Donald Trump)
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FACILITY (IPDF):
Private Partnership Unit of Pakistan working under the Ministry of Finance. It was started in 2007 to act as a bridge between public and private sector by facilitating the public sector institutions in the development and implementation of infrastructure projects through Public Private Partnerships. IPDF assists the implementing agencies from the inception of a project to structuring the project and leading it to financial close. A PPP enabling framework comprising of project guidelines, standardized PPP provisions, and a well-defined PPP project development life cycle is already in place along with a growing project pipeline. IPDF has followed a demand driven strategy for the development of its project pipeline Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) as stated before, IPDF is the central Public and taking on certain projects identified by various agencies, organizations and institutions themselves either in response to IPDF efforts or otherwise. At present IPDF is working on about 13 projects in different sectors and at various stages of completion. The value of these projects is approx. Pak Rs.230 billion (US$ 2.70 billion). Mandate of IPDF includes the following sectors:
PAKISTAN RAILWAYS:
ECNEC gives nod for implementing Karachi Circular Railway on PPP mode. The transaction structure of the project was approved by the Public Private Partnership Authority (P3A) Board which envisaged provision of capital VGF to the tune of PKR 86.5 billion. The successful private party will get Minimum Revenue Guarantee.
MOTORWAYS AUTHORITY:
Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approves 117-km green-field Kharian-Rawalpindi Motorway which is proposed to be constructed on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis at a total cost of PKR 96 billion (including cost of land acquisition & other overheads to be borne by Government of Pakistan amounting to PKR 16 billion).
Public Private Partnership Authority (P3A) Board approved Transaction Structure of the Project envisaging provision of both capital and operational VGF to make the Project financially viable/ bankable for the private sector. The Project is essentially an extension of Lahore-Sialkot and Sialkot-Kharian motorways aiming at taking the motorway further to the twin cities of Rawalpindi/ Islamabad. The Project is anticipated to be constructed in 2 years. With its completion the Project is expected to reduce distance between Lahore and Islamabad by 90 km.
REFERENCES:
Microsoft Word - PAKISTAN.doc (unescap.org)
https://twitter.com/P3Authority
https://www.usaid.gov/pakistan
Written By: Saad Ahmed Minhas
Department of Governance and Public Policy
BS-6 (Morning)
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