Botswana can achieve more from PPPs � IMF

The SADC House is one of the few PPP's projects done in Botswana
The SADC House is one of the few PPP's projects done in Botswana

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest Technical Assistance report on public investment management has revealed that the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are not significant so far in Botswana even though they are on the rise.

The latest report, which was completed in February this year,  states that the 2009 PPP policy is comprehensive and reflects many good practices, but also has some weaknesses, mainly that it does not explicitly apply to parastatals.

It states that a small number of PPPs were procured in recent years under the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal (PPADB) Act, even though the latter does not refer to PPPs and does not provide adequate guidelines on quantifying the fiscal implications of PPPs.

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