Over the years, an increasing number of projects have been developed through a PPP framework. Further, given the need for increasing infrastructure capacity rapidly to meet the economic and social needs of the country, PPP will continue to remain a critical procurement process for infrastructure projects even in the future.
To enable public entities to successfully design and execute PPP projects, it is critical to build their capacity on the concepts and practices in PPPs, the project development and award process, and the post award contract management issues that arise in PPPs.
In fact, PPPs being a relatively new paradigm for several public and private entities, it is imperative for all the stakeholders to possess sufficient technical and managerial competencies for undertaking such projects. The success of such projects would, hence, largely depend, in addition to proper planning and implementation, also on development of appropriate skills in both the public as well and private sectors. This can be achieved with the help of well-structured capacity building initiatives for continuous dissemination of PPP information and good practices.