Competencies of the Project Team

The public officials involved in the PPP project teams need to have competencies to structure and evaluate a project considering its financial, legal and technical aspects. The five broad areas of expertise that they need to have are project planning, financial matters, legal, technical, and project management.

Generally, not all types of expertise needed in these five areas may be available within the implementing agency. The transaction advisor of course complements the necessary expertise. But the project team should have a general level of expertise in all such areas in order to be able to oversee, guide and endorse the work of the transaction advisor.

If the project team has to remain responsible for the post-implementation management activities as well, it also needs to have project management expertise in the following areas:

•  Contract management;

•  Monitoring the quality of service and contractor compliance;

•  Performance monitoring; and

•  Partnership relationship management

Elaborations on these points are provided in Chapter 6.