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Public managers develop knowledge about public-private partnerships – Jornal OPaís

Public managers from the provinces of Bié and Huambo have been participating, since yesterday, in training on public-private partnerships, to better identify and select projects, which can be implemented in the General State Budget (OGE2025).

The training, which will be held in the city of Huambo, includes municipal administrators and representatives, general secretaries and directors of the offices of Economic and Integrated Development, Infrastructure and Studies, Planning and Statistics of the two governments , within the framework of the Development Plan. .

In four days, participants will be trained on the ideas of public-private partnerships and relevant legislation, how they are used – incentives and warnings, procedures to start the project development process, high- management platform and infrastructure creation.

At the time, the national director for Public-Private Partnerships at the Ministry of Planning, Augusto Dembo, said that, recently, it has been felt, from governments and municipal administrations, that there is a lack of knowledge about what does the legislation provide for the implementation of service provision projects and beyond.

To this end, he said, there is an urgent need to address comprehensive issues of project identification and preparation, which include the preparation of feasibility studies and risk sharing between the public and private sectors, through creating hard and long stretches. -term, according to Angop.

For his part, the general secretary of the Government of the province of Huambo, Tiago Cangombe António, pointed out that PPPs are relationships established by contracts, through which legal entities undertake, in a permanent way, to ensure the development of activities aimed at satisfaction. general need.

He said, in this venture, responsibility for financing, investment, research and related risks, in whole or in part, is with the private partner.

With this training of workers, he continued, the aim is to achieve what is established in the National Development Plan (PDN), in a program of public finance reform and stability, with the aim of PPP incentive, as a source of funding for infrastructures. and services.

The initiative aims to train managers from the 18 provinces in the country, with the aim of promoting PPPs as a source of funding for infrastructure and public services.

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