PPP: The Right Marriage between Local Government and the Private Sector in Malaysia?

Public-Private Partnership has been employed in some local governments in Malaysia for some time in real estate development making local authorities a key player in the economic development of cities. However, little research exists on both the implementation of such projects and the evaluation of the governance procedures. This paper seeks to fill this gap by examining the working arrangement between selected local authorities and developers in striking a win-win situation. Towards this end, the paper examines the working arrangements between two local authorities and developers in Batu Pahat and Kuantan, as well as the subsequent postproject developments. The two cases in Kuantan exemplify successful partnerships that still exist while the third in Batu Pahat illustrates a failed partnership.- local government, public-private partnership, privatization

Public-private partnerships in education : exploring different models and policy options

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly perceived as an appropriate policy approach to provide education for all in many different contexts. Key education stakeholders suggest that, by partnering with the private sector, governments can expand their education systems in a more efficient and effective way. For this and other reasons, many governments are establishing PPP frameworks within their education systems. This is happening in both industrialized and non-industrialized countries, and in countries with very different administrative, financial, and political situations, including those affected by crisis and conflict. Nonetheless, in education, PPP frameworks cover many policy options and follow very diverse rationales. As such, one of the main objectives of this framing paper is to unpack PPPs as a policy category and to reflect on its different translations and implications in the educational sector. Specifically, the paper argues that not all the PPP policy options and rationales are equally appropriate to achieve the expected goals in all types of education settings

Development of Framework to Enhance Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Project Success Through Sustainable Stakeholder Relationships; Case of Unsolicited PPP Projects

Infrastructure plays an essential role in the economic development of a country. Hence, the prevailing global infrastructure gap has succeeded in promoting the adoption of the PPP concept for construction projects due to its tremendous advantages in terms of risk-sharing, creativity, innovation, and public sector budgetary constraints. This enormous interest of the governments towards the PPP emphasises the requirement of more investigations on the successful implementation of PPP construction projects. Accordingly, many researchers have been identified that stakeholder opposition results in many failures in PPP project performances. However, limited studies have been focused related to successful stakeholder management in PPP projects worldwide. Therefore, there is a need for an in-depth investigation of stakeholders and their relationships in PPP projects to facilitate sustainable relationships to improve project success. A qualitative survey strategy was adopted to achieve the established objectives of this study. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews which were conducted under two rounds. Interviews were conducted with thirty responders per each round which totalled to sixty interviews with construction experts. Finally, these data were analysed using content analysis technique and social network analysis technique. Findings of this research indicate that the government, contractor, consultant, and end-users are the essential stakeholders in PPP projects. Social network diagrams developed under categories of contractual, financial, information exchange and performance incentive relationships provide clear visual on stakeholder relationships in PPP projects. Furthermore, success factors of stakeholder relationships were identified to improve stakeholder management in PPP projects, and strategies were suggested to minimise existing barriers and maximise facilitators in achieving those success factors. Moreover, the developed conceptual framework provides an approach to be followed by industrial practitioners to achieve sustainable stakeholder relationships in PPP construction projects in Sri Lanka. Keywords: Public-Private Partnerships, Stakeholders, Stakeholder relationships, Critical success factors, Strategie

An Effective Framework of Public-Private Partnerships: Creating An Economically Viable Plan for Conserving and Managing Beijing’s Urban Heritage Sites

The ongoing process of urbanization China is experiencing, budgetary constraints on heritage conservation, and inappropriate reuse have together exerted a negative impact on urban heritage sites in China’s cities, like Beijing. Despite these problems, public-private partnerships (PPPs), may serve as an effective tool which can not only address these problems, but also achieve a balance between heritage conservation and economic development. The primary aim of my work is to build more understanding about key factors for developing an effective framework of heritage PPPs to create an economically viable plan for conserving and managing Beijing’s urban heritage sites. Therefore, I include a detailed background analysis of PPPs and Beijing’s governance environment based on an extensive literature review. Moreover, case studies of both successful and problematic examples in China’s cities and other comparable cities are explored to understand the challenges and opportunities Beijing faces. In addition, policy review of key guidelines of international organizations with expert knowledge and also policy documents at both national and local levels is carried out to select important policy elements appropriate to Beijing’s contexts. Finally, a series of research-based and policy-related recommendations are proposed

Public-Private Partnerships In E-Government: Insights From Singapore Cases

There is a growing interest in public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a model for e-government service development and delivery. Although various underlying benefits of such arrangement have been enumerated, there exist challenges and issues in PPPs manifest in a number of unsuccessful cases. The success of PPPs in e-government depends on a number of factors that need to be considered from the first stage of evaluating the PPP to the last stage of development and roll-out. However, there is a dearth of PPP studies in the e-government literature that identified the success factors behind these efforts. Hence, this research attempts to address the existing gap by investigating what factors contribute to a successful e-government PPP. The paper starts out by introducing the relevant concepts and literature and then providing a review of e-government PPPs in Singapore, which has been a leader in e-government. We identify success factors based on existing studies and information of 5 cases of e-government PPPs. In future, we plan to collect data from new cases to further develop and validate these factors and identify their inter-relationships. This study is expected to contribute to research and practice by identifying success factors in different stages of e-government PPP

Developing Sustainable Relationships through Public Private People Partnership (4P) Projects

Conference Theme: Global Challenges in Construction IndustryPublic Private Partnership (PPP) are sometimes used to procure public infrastructure, if deemed useful in mobilising private finance and expertise for generating innovations and enhanced ‘value’. However, when delivering desired ‘value’ to specific end-users, we should not neglect ‘overall value’ for the sustainable development of the parent community/society. To address such holistic issues in suitable broader-based projects, wider-ranging ‘Public Private People Partnership’ (4P) arrangements are proposed to invite and integrate contributions from societal stakeholders through relevant bodies, e.g. social enterprises, NGOs, academia and professional institutions. Selecting and integrating such stakeholders in a properly structured 4P procurement and operational framework can help formulate more widely acceptable and sustainable designs and mobilise more resources for procurement, construction, maintenance and operation of built assets. This will also help to address grass roots aspirations and concerns earlier, rather than try to resolve conflicts later. However, a major barrier to involving more stakeholders in already complex projects arises in managing their inputs, and relationships, while optimising outputs. Based on literature review and structured interviews, this paper presents pros and cons of using 4P in selected scenarios such as post-disaster reconstruction. Initial findings confirm that a 4P approach requires superior relationship management. This paper also draws on another study that highlighted the often neglected importance of relationship management in ‘traditional’ PPP projects. Combining these findings, a case is made for improving relationship management by mobilising the additional P (‘people’) to appropriate extents in selected PPP projects, so as to identify, prioritise and harmonise diverse stakeholder objectives and target optimal ‘overall value’ with sustainable relationships aimed at common goals.published_or_final_versio

Investment Landscape Mapping in East Asia: Integrated Coastal Management and Sustainable Development of Coasts and Oceans

This research paper seeks to understand and map current financial funding flows to integrated coastal management (ICM)-related sectors across the grants and investment capital spectrum. The range of funding comprises donors (both bilateral and multilateral), foundations, and corporate social responsibility initiatives at one end, and development finance institutions (DFI), corporations, impact investments and commercial investors, at the other.In collaboration with PEMSEA, Shujog's research identifies regional and country-level trends in ICM funding across 10 related coastal and marine sectors, and offers recommendations for increasing investments in these sectors

Opportunities for private sector participation in agricultural water development and management

Irrigation management / Private sector / Public sector / Public policy / Private investment / Participatory management / Privatization / Financing / Farmers / Households / Water harvesting / Africa South of Sahara

DELIVERING ON BUDGET FY2009â€Â10 : A SET OF IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES

The newly elected government proposed its first budget on 11 June 2009 with a view to support a trajectory of moderate growth, reduced poverty through employment generation and expansion of safety nets, low price level and tackle the impact of the global financial crisis. The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in its budget reaction pointed out that addressing these objectives will entail designing of a set of appropriate budgetary measures, but will depend much more on the efficacy of their delivery (CPD 2009a). Furthermore, such delivery will need a coherent, coordinated, consistent and committed participation of the total government machinery and all other development actors and stakeholders. It was encouraging to see that the Finance Minister publicly agreed with the analysts that implementation of the budget would be the most important challenge. In his postbudget press briefing on 12 June 2009, the Finance Minister stated : While drawing up the budget, we knew its execution was going to pose a huge challenge (The Daily Star 2009). In this context the present study seeks to facilitate an early kickoff of budget implementation in FY200910 and to complement the continuing monitoring process by the government. The study is based on analysis of secondary data, government policy documents and media reports. Interviews with the knowledgeable people were also carried out to generate insights. Along with selective econometric exercise, academic literature was reviewed to strengthen the analysis. Promoting economic growth is the primary objective of the budget implementation; conversely growth itself is a key determinant of successful implementation of budget. In this context, the paper sets off by exploring the growth prospect for FY200910 and its linkages with implementation of the budget. Resource mobilisation is one of the two pillars of a budgetary framework; subsequent two sections, thus, highlight the issues related to revenue mobilisation from domestic source and foreign assistance inflow. On the expenditure side, a select set of expenditure issues relating to the revenue expenditures have been examined, besides reviewing the challenges of annual development plan (ADP) delivery. As mainstreaming of the publicprivate partnership (PPP) has been one of the distinguishing features of the budget, a separate section has been devoted to the theme. The penultimate section of the paper brings the resource and expenditure sides together and discusses the issues relating to budget deficit and its financing. The paper then rounds up with a set of possible scenarios along with a few concluding observations.Bangladesh, Economic Outlook, Budget