Marketization of Public Services – Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Public-Private Partnerships in SEE and CEE Countries
PALGO Center, OSI/LGI (Budapest)
In the CEE region, PPPs have been making significant contribution to the local infrastructural development and service provision during past ten years. Emergence of PPPs has reinvigorated public discussion on the relationship between public and private sector on the various levels of government. Issues like efficiency, equity, transparency, competitiveness, accountability, sustainability began being analyzed in the PPP context. Lack of public finances to invest in the infrastructure and services almost inevitably led to creation of different forms of PPPs.
As the final stage of the research carried out in Serbia, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria on Public-Private Partnerships, the Workshop on Marketization of Public Services – Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Public-Private Partnerships in SEE and CEE Countries was organized on October 30-31, 2008 in Belgrade.
Presenters from Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Croatia attended this meeting, along with Serbian State Secretary for Regional Development, representatives of the MEGA Program in Serbia (USAID), City of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science and other participants from various organizations, both public and private.
Purpose of this project was to produce an overview of functioning PPP arrangements in the CEE countries including legal and institutional framework, results of the existing arrangements and identification of the need for improvement in the system and where possible, outline of directions for the improvement. This overview will be primarily used as a basis to prepare policy recommendations for the regulation of the PPPs in Serbia and for the manual on managing PPPs for local government officials.
This project was organized by OSI/LGI from Budapest, PALGO Center and the MEGA Program in Serbia (USAID).
Project period: September to December 2008.
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