Opportunities And Challenges Of Promoting Public-Private Partnership Projects: The Case Of The Ethiopian Irrigation Sector
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The study was conducted to identify the major challenges and opportunities of the
private sector face in PPP irrigation projects. The study is an exploratory
research and it has employed a qualitative data research methodology. The
research involved primary and secondary data. The secondary data used in the
study were laws, policies, regulations, directives and other journals and
publications issued and provided by public bodies. The triangulation of the two
methods allowed the researcher to develop and comprehensive understand of the
concept. The researcher employed content analysis to study documents relevant to
PPP. The researcher also conducted face to face and video conference interviews
to collect data from participants. The research studied previous research works
on PPP prepared by different authors. The participants of the study were seven in
total incorporating 3 participants from the private sector, two from the public and
two other consultants. They were selected using a non-probable purposive
selection. The findings of the study showed that PPP irrigation in Ethiopia has
enormous potential for the private investment to participate. However, the private
sector faces major challenges related to laws, institutions, access to finance,
knowledge of PPP, land administration and perception of communities on PPP
irrigation. The activities of the government towards, providing PPP literacy to
public institutions, and building coordination between ministries as well as the
federal and regional governments, will make the promotion of PPP for irrigation
a success story. Finally, the study provided recommendations for the government
to provide literacy programs to the public sector. It should also identify the role
of its institutions by law and include key ministries and organs in the taskforce in
order cascading the activities of the government. It recommends the government
to provide for mechanisms that allow FDIs expatriate profits rapidly. It also
requests the action of the government to revise its rural landholding laws to ease
access to PPP irrigation project lands and finally put in place social mitigation
mechanisms to encourage the participation of local communities.
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Public Private, Partnership,, Irrigation, Infrastructure