By Edmund Mingle
The Civil Service Training Centre yesterday launched a training course in basic Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the aim of training a critical mass of Ghanaians with the skills in developing PPPs.
According to the Centre, the course would help Ghanaians to effectively understand the PPP concept, as well as enhance the capacity of civil servants to support for the successful implementation of PPP projects for the various government agencies.
Following government’s adoption of the PPP concept a viable option to leverage public assets and funds with private sector resources from local and international markets to accelerate needed investments in infrastructure and services, the CSTC believes there was a need to run a course to adequately train public officials on the concept.
Nana Agyeman Dwamena, Head of Civil Service, launching the course at the opening of the first training session for representatives of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Accra, lauded the objective of the course, saying it was in line with the capacity building plans of his office.
He was confident that partnership between the public and private sector would also improve the output of the public sector in terms of service delivery.
But that, he said, could only be achieved when civil servants have been trained and equipped with the skills and capacity to deliver.
He called for attitudinal change among civil servants, indicating that no among of capacity building could yield positive result if the lackadaisical attitude towards work did not change.
Nana Agyemen congratulated the trainees for having the benefit of being the first batch, and reminded them of the need to become change agents after the course.
He assured the CSTC and the Finance Ministry’s Public Investment Division PID, managers of the PPP programme, of his outfit’s continues support and collaboration, and urged the participants to the committed to the training.
Mrs. Dora Dei-Tumi, Principal of the CSTC, welcoming the trainees, said the Centre has a vision of becoming a regional hub for PPP training.
According to her, with the increasing adoption of the concept by Ghana and other African countries, there was a need for a well structured training on PPP development, implementation and management.
The Centre has the objective of contributing to the training and capacity building for public and civil servants to enable to effectively play their roles in the implementation of PPP projects.
Mrs. Magdalene Apenteng, Director of PID, for her part, noted that complexity of the concept required a better understanding by all stakeholders of easy adopting and application by the government agencies.
She lauded the contribution of the CSTC in helping to build local capacity for the development and management of PPPs, adding that the training was in line with the objective of the PID’s stakeholder engagements that aim at creating public awareness about the PPPs.
She announced the government was currently pursuing a number of line-up PPP projects for infrastructure development in the transport, agriculture and other sectors of the economy, adding that some of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies were developing PPP proposals for consideration.
The Civil Service Training Centre yesterday launched a training course in basic Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the aim of training a critical mass of Ghanaians with the skills in developing PPPs.
According to the Centre, the course would help Ghanaians to effectively understand the PPP concept, as well as enhance the capacity of civil servants to support for the successful implementation of PPP projects for the various government agencies.
Following government’s adoption of the PPP concept a viable option to leverage public assets and funds with private sector resources from local and international markets to accelerate needed investments in infrastructure and services, the CSTC believes there was a need to run a course to adequately train public officials on the concept.
Nana Agyeman Dwamena, Head of Civil Service, launching the course at the opening of the first training session for representatives of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Accra, lauded the objective of the course, saying it was in line with the capacity building plans of his office.
He was confident that partnership between the public and private sector would also improve the output of the public sector in terms of service delivery.
But that, he said, could only be achieved when civil servants have been trained and equipped with the skills and capacity to deliver.
He called for attitudinal change among civil servants, indicating that no among of capacity building could yield positive result if the lackadaisical attitude towards work did not change.
Nana Agyemen congratulated the trainees for having the benefit of being the first batch, and reminded them of the need to become change agents after the course.
He assured the CSTC and the Finance Ministry’s Public Investment Division PID, managers of the PPP programme, of his outfit’s continues support and collaboration, and urged the participants to the committed to the training.
Mrs. Dora Dei-Tumi, Principal of the CSTC, welcoming the trainees, said the Centre has a vision of becoming a regional hub for PPP training.
According to her, with the increasing adoption of the concept by Ghana and other African countries, there was a need for a well structured training on PPP development, implementation and management.
The Centre has the objective of contributing to the training and capacity building for public and civil servants to enable to effectively play their roles in the implementation of PPP projects.
Mrs. Magdalene Apenteng, Director of PID, for her part, noted that complexity of the concept required a better understanding by all stakeholders of easy adopting and application by the government agencies.
She lauded the contribution of the CSTC in helping to build local capacity for the development and management of PPPs, adding that the training was in line with the objective of the PID’s stakeholder engagements that aim at creating public awareness about the PPPs.
She announced the government was currently pursuing a number of line-up PPP projects for infrastructure development in the transport, agriculture and other sectors of the economy, adding that some of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies were developing PPP proposals for consideration.
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| Seated from left, Mrs. Apenteng, Nana Dwamena and Mrs Dei Tumi in a group picture with the participants |
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