MoFEP to build capacities of MDAs in preparation for PPP

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The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) is holding talks with the African Development Bank to build the capacity of individuals and institutions as it plans to implement the Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative by the close of year 2012.

The PPP when fully implemented would address Ghana's huge infrastructure deficit which requires a sustained spending of at least $1.5 billion per annum.

Plans for a PPP were started in 2004 where a policy framework and guidelines for its implementation was started. However, the absence of a legal framework stalled the implementation of the policy.

Speaking to Rashida Nasamu on e.tv Ghana's flagship programme, Awake, Director of the Public Investment Division at MoFEP, Mrs Magdalene Apenteng noted that, there was the need to build capacity at the various levels to help in the undertaking of projects.

She said, “Capacity building is a key in this current dispensation that we want to introduce PPP back into the system and do it properly. The Attorney General’s department is one of the institutions that will have that capacity.”

“Indeed we are talking to the African Development Bank. They will provide us with the attitude that we all need to carry along to do it right at all times,” she further added.

Mrs Apenteng also noted that an institutional framework was being put in place to spell out the roles and responsibilities of the various ministries, agencies and departments to ensure that the PPP was successfully implemented and to avoid mistakes which end up as crisis in the undertaking of projects.

She said, “we are looking at putting together an institutional framework to build capacity within all the MDA's and MMDA's because if you don’t have capacity it will be very difficult putting a pipeline project because it you just can’t get up and say you are going to undertake projects when you don’t have a pipeline.”

She explained that “the pipeline of projects would determine what should be done, whether to go the traditional procurement or the PPP procurement option.”

At the moment, the legal framework being put together would make provisions for institutional arrangements, provisions for arbitration, conflict resolutions, procurement processes and the general PPP process in itself.

Mrs Apenteng mentioned that the legal frame work would be robust to address several issues that arise out of partnerships, some of which include judgment debts.

She added that the framework would give confidence and commitment to the private sector both local and external. 

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