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Public-Private Dialogue in Africa:

Explore the impact, experiences, and challenges of public-private dialogue in shaping the business enabling environment in Africa, focusing on regulatory reform, competition policy, and more. Learn about successes, failures, and key lessons for future collaborations.

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Public-Private Dialogue in Africa:

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  1. Public-Private Dialogue in Africa: - Experiences, successes and failures – Presented by Thomas Bedenbecker Magaliesburg, May 2006

  2. Public Private Dialogue • is not an aim in itself. • is the dialogue between public authorities and private sector institutions (not the whole civil society) aiming at improving the business enabling environment. • Business Enabling Environment • The policy framework for private sector development • The institutional and organisational framework for the design, implementation and compliance with the policy and regulatory framework • The legal and regulatory framework within which business operatesBroad areas of focus: • Includes regulatory reform, competition policy, privatisation, communication between stakeholders, financial sector reform, trade facilitation, commercial justice, labour laws, property rights, infrastructure, policy and regulation.

  3. Public Private Dialogue in SADC

  4. Public side: Strengthen legitimacy of Government, by increasing transparency by improving the quality of politics by improving efficiency of public institutions Private side: Make it easier to do better business, by reducing the costs by reducing the risks by improving access to markets Motivation to do PPD

  5. Public side: uses PPD for a even stronger plundering of private sector has to control itself and its own commitments Private side: uses PPD for the particular interests of some of the companies uses PPD as a “Para-vent” for rent seeking, collusion and corruption Reasons for failure of PPD Mistrust Suspicion

  6. Public administration must be independent and operate following rules that are known and whose respect can be sued Private sector must be organized (in reality in many countries, PS is not organized and has no analytical skills) The spheresof public interventions and PS interventions must clearly differentiate (incl. human ressources) Both sides must be convinced that PPD brings an added value for them PPD must be structured (includes awareness of 3 phases of preparation, execution and evaluation of results) Initiative must be taken by public side(needs the willingness to accept to be challenged on it’s acting) but public side must not try to organize the private sector Public side must send out clear signals to create trust can be done by implication of highest political level and by ensuring efficiency of PPD (monitoring implementation of results) Lessons learnt:Preconditions for the success of PPD

  7. The Scope of PPD as a Constituent of Market Economy

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