Chapter 5 Capacity Development and Investment Promotion
With the PPP legal and regulatory framework in place and the processes and guidelines set out, the key to successful delivery of projects relates to capacity development of the public sector to enhance their understanding of PPPs and creating awareness amongst the private sector to promote their investment.
| A wide range of PPP Capacity Building events, training session and awareness creation campaigns have been conducted by the PPP Authority. Over the 2015-16 period the PPP Authority has organized and/or attended a total of 34 training and capacity building sessions, investor seminars and conferences reaching out to around 2500 people locally and internationally. A summary description of the key events organized during this period is set out below. |
PPP workshop at Ministry of industries |
Training: Over 10 training and awareness sessions were organised with public and private sector stakeholders to provide them with a better understanding of the PPP framework, the institutions, the applicable processes and the key rationale for the development of the programme.
The training programme was for officials and professionals from the Ministries of Health, Railways, Environment and Industry, together with their associated agencies and institutions, railways ministry and agency, Hi-Tec Park Authority, BEPZA, Bangladesh Institute of Banking and Management, Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre and the National Defence College.
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| The Public Private Partnership Authority organized a workshop with officials from Ministry of Environment & Forest on 7th January 2016 at the CIRDAP Auditorium. The objective of the workshop was to share the experience of implementing the PPP Program in Bangladesh. The Chief Guest at the workshop was Dr. Kamal Uddin Ahmed, Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forest. Mr. Nurul Karim, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forest was also present in the event as the session chair. |
| The 1st session of the workshop, on the orientation of PPP Program in Bangladesh, was delivered by Mr. Faruque Hossain, Director General of CPTU. He particularly highlighted the history of partnership with the private sector in Bangladesh and briefly covered various institutional and regulatory structures associated with PPP in the country. In the 2nd session, Mr. Syed Afsor H. Uddin, CEO of PPP Authority provided an update on the recent PPP activities and achievements in Bangladesh. He accentuated how PPP had been established as one of the key components in supporting the infrastructure of Bangladesh into a middle income country. He highlighted the success in quality building a large PPP pipeline of over 40 projects in different sectors. He particularly highlighted the role of the PPP Authority and PPP progress so far in the country and also emphasized on aligning linked projects to PPPs especially in connection with the environmental considerations. |
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| Md. Abul Bashar, Deputy Manager of the PPP Authority highlighted various PPP processes in Bangladesh with particular focus on PPP Project Proposal form and PPP Technical Assistance form as part of PPP project development. He also informed that the event formed a part of PPP Authority's regular communication updates to all of its stakeholders. The event was concluded after a thoughtful and participative Q&A session discussion on PPP capacity building requirement issues. It was highlighted that need for capacity building and appropriate identification and clustering of relevant government officials would promote overall PPP development effort in Bangladesh. |
A summary of the PPP stakeholder workshop with Ministry of Environment & Forest
Investor Promotion: The PPP Authority structured its investment promotion activities on a programme and a project basis. At a programme level the approach was to reach out to multiple investors to market the general opportunities for investment in the PPP programme in Bangladesh. Project level activities were designed to specifically target potential investors to bid for PPP projects that had been launched for procurement.
Project specific activities have been carried out to promote seven PPP projects, covering the health, hospitality, housing, road transport and aviation sectors. These events included pre-application and pre-bid meetings and were targeted towards providing interested investors an opportunity to understand further details about the project, it structure, the scope and the process applicable for bidding.
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| Pre-Application Meeting on the "Upgrading of Joydevpur-Debogram-Bhulta-Madanpur (Dhaka |
Programme level promotion activities were carried out through a number of international conferences. On a number of occasions the PPP Authority was invited by multilateral agencies and governments to share the details of the PPP programme to participants and showcase the best practice applied in the relatively rapid development of the PPP programme in Bangladesh.
Two road show events were jointly organised and delivered in London and Tokyo by the Board of Investment, the PPP Authority and other investment promotion agencies of the Government where the overall investment opportunities in Bangladesh and investment climate outlook was showcased.
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| Images from the Bangladesh Roadshow to the UK, September 2015 |
