Awareness workshop on public-private partnerships

The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) in collaboration with the Governance and Institutional Development Division (GIDD), Commonwealth Secretariat has organized a four-day awareness workshop on Public-Private Partnerships from August 13-18.

The workshop at the Mt.Lavinia Hotel will be inaugurated by Minister of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion Anura Priyadarshana Yapa. The aim of the workshop is to build public sector and private sector capacity in implementing public-private partnerships (PPP) in the development of infrastructure and other service projects.

The workshop will cover a wide range of topics relating to PPP including what is PPP, what types of projects and why, what other countries are doing, policy framework, risk management, legal and contractual issues, project finance and other related areas.

This workshop comes at a time when governments around the world have sought to secure a greater participation of the private sector in infrastructure development.

It is also relevant to Sri Lanka at this juncture when the Government has embarked on a massive development project in the development of the South, North and East.

The Governance and Institutional Development Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat (GIDD) which is responsible for public sector development is sponsoring the workshop.

GIDD's mandate covers public sector administration, civil society and private sector institutions with public responsibilities, GIDDs has experience in helping countries develop their capacity in public-private partnerships (PPPs).