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| Almami Taal, GCCI CEO look to a stronger public-private sectors partnership |
A well-planned Prospects
and Opportunities of Public-Private Partnership in The Gambia (PPP) can sustain
the economic growth of the country, says Almami Fanding Taal
The chief executive
officer of Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, GCCI, says such a
partnership will also benefit all sectors of the economy, and can increase
access to markets and job creation when strengthened.
Mr Taal was speaking at a
day-long forum on the PPP in The Gambia organised by the GCCI held at the Coco
Ocean Resort and Spa Hotel in Bijilo.
The forum cantered on
discussing ways and means to strengthen the partnership between the public and
private sectors.
PPP has the advantage for
government in the areas of resource mobilisation, access to expert skills, increased
efficiency, and would also ease the burden on public budgets, and improve
delivery of services, Taal said.
But he said there is a
need to have a framework that will serve as a guide or a reference document for
the PPP.
He said: “Of course
having the framework in place would start the process where serious business
leaders will consider services that are well suited for the public.”
At the forum, the country’s private sector operators strongly noted
that “the only way to maintain and further strengthen the economic development
of the country is to make stronger the partnership between the public and the
private sectors.”
Deputy permanent
secretary Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mod K. Ceesay, admitted that
the government cannot do it alone.
He said the PPP can help
in the attainment of the Programme for Accelerate Growth and Employment (PAGE),
Gambia Government’s development blueprint, 2010-2015.
“It is very important
that the partnership between the public and the private sectors should be
strengthened,” GCCI President Muhammad M. Jagana reiterated.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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