Related Policies

NO

ASPECTS

DESCRIPTION

19.

Land Acquisition

- Land acquisition will depend on the type and scope of the project whether it is the responsibility of the private sector proponent (contractor) or the public sector (government).

20.

Foreign ownership shares

- In any case, capital intensive projects may be open for foreign direct investment and participation given that domestic bidders lack the capacity to participate.

- Foreign ownership will be dependent within the existing laws of Investment Promotion Act 1992 and Companies Act 1997.

21.

Nature/ Scope of PPP Capacity Building Interventions/ Programs

- To support the operations of the PPP Centre the following concurrent work will be undertaken in due course. The funding for this additional work will be determined by the Taskforce. The additional works are:

- • The conversion of the PPP Policy to PPP Law.

- • The development of regulatory and institutional arrangements.

- • The development of standard operating procedures and various manuals, such as project appraisal, guidelines etc.

- • The appropriate institutional arrangements for setting up a PPP Centre are to be determined.

- Concurrent to the above PPP related works, it is also envisaged that the Department of Planning & Monitoring will lead the development and publication of a National PPP Infrastructure Pipeline.

- The National PPP Infrastructure Pipeline will consist of a number of economic and social infrastructure priority projects and from these priority projects a number of pilot projects will be selected for transactions as PPP projects.

22.

List of Ready-to-Offer Projects

- Currently, there are no particular "ready to offer" projects listed although certain projects are being assessed using the PPP modality. Even if the PPP option is deemed the most viable from these assessments, actual implementation cannot be entered into until after the PPP law comes into effect.