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Title: Public-Private Partnerships in the Lebanese Government


1
Public-Private Partnerships in the Lebanese
Government Case Studies For UNESCWA Expert
Group Meeting on Regional Networking and
Partnership for Information Society
Development Crowne Plaza Hotel 5-6 September 2007
Tania Zaroubi Senior ICT Project Manager Office
of the Minister of State for Administrative
Reform (OMSAR)
2
PPP and the Government
  • Public-private Partnerships (PPP) refers to the
    contractual agreements formed between a public
    agency and private sector entity that allow for
    greater private sector participation in the
    delivery of public sector projects.

3
Government Responsibility
The government should take innovative measures
and undertake necessary actions to ensure
collaboration between Public Sector and
Private Sector
4
Governments Support PPP
  • Because it potentially offers the following
  • Reduced upfront financial costs for the service
    delivery.
  • Improved service delivery, by reducing the time
    and effort.
  • Access to the best technical and management
    skills from both public and private sectors.

5
Roles
  • The traditional roles of the public and private
    sectors are changing in the knowledge society.
  • Governments are increasingly playing the role of
  • Facilitator
  • rather than the service provider and
  • Companies within the private sector are not just
    striving for profits, but
  • Acquiring Responsibilities
  • of a Social Nature.

6
PPP
  • PPP can cover many sectors
  • ICT and e-Government

7
E-Government in Lebanon
  • The e-government vision for Lebanon centers
    around the attainment of a number of strategic
    objectives based on citizen and business-centric
    approaches.

8
e-Government
Opportunities
Knowledge
Growth
Empowerment
Chain reaction
9
Justifications
  • According to OECD (2004) there are many
    justifications for the need of PPP in the
    E-government implementation, these justifications
    are
  • Partnership can free public administrations to
    allow a focus on core policy and business issues,
    and private partner sector takes over ICT
    production issues.
  • Partnership can help reduce risk by a formal
    assessment of solutions available in the market.
  • Partnership can help E-government to improve
    their own services, and putting services online
    within the private sector.
  • Partnership enables the private sector to acquire
    knowledge of the structure and functioning of the
    public sector, and thereby improved specific
    government oriented solutions.

10
PPP in the Government of Lebanon
  • PPP manifests itself in the following
  • Policy and Strategy
  • ICT Projects
  • Infrastructure
  • Portals
  • Education
  • Cooperation
  • Other

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  • CASE STUDIES

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Policies and Strategies
  • Partnership
  • UNDP
  • OMSAR
  • PCA
  • Private Sector
  • Academia
  • NGOs
  • and others
  • Documents
  • Administrative Reform Strategy 2001
  • e-Government Strategy 2002
  • e-Strategy 2003

www.omsar.gov.lb
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World Summit on the Information Society
www.omsar.gov.lb
  • Partnership
  • MOT
  • MOET
  • OMSAR
  • PCA
  • Academia
  • NGOs
  • Banking Sector (Arab Bank, BLC,
  • Byblos, Credit Libanais, Banque Med,
  • Saradar, Fransabank)
  • Strategy Documents
  • Lebanon Information Society Paper (2003-2010)
  • Lebanon Information Society Action Plan (2003
    2010)
  • Designing with the private sector the Lebanese
    Pavilion , the contents and design of the
    brochure to be distributed during the summit, the
    CD-ROM to contain all national papers for Lebanon
    and to be part of the brochure, and the
    multimedia promotion to be shown throughout the
    ICT4D exhibition

14
Five Websites
  • Partnership
  • Talal Abou Ghazali
  • OMSAR
  • Websites
  • Ministry of Education and Higher Education
  • Ministry of Public Works
  • Ministry of Finance (Cadastre)
  • Ministry of Labor
  • ENA

15
Community Access Centers
Involves the creation of ten new community
access centers in various parts of Lebanon, in
collaboration with local municipalities and the
Ministry of Social Affairs.  These centers will
provide ICT training courses as well as low cost
Internet access to Lebanese citizens.
  • Partnership
  • Ministry of Social Affairs
  • UNDP
  • OMSAR
  • Microsoft
  • Locations
  • Rmeich
  • Mazboud
  • Hammana
  • Ayoun
  • Houeich
  • Rachaya
  • Hermel
  • Bourj Hammoud
  • Seir Denneye
  • Jbeil

16
SchoolNet Pilot Deployment(Distribution of 24
public schools)
  • Beirut
  • Rene Mouawad
  • Fakhir Aldeen
  • Ashrafieh Aoula
  • Noor Moghaizal
  • North
  • Al-Hadadeen (G)
  • Al-Hadadeen (B)
  • Chekkah
  • Zagharta
  • Bekaa
  • Zahleh (B)
  • Jeb Janeen
  • Baalbeck (G)
  • Housh Al-omara
  • South
  • Tyre (B)
  • Sidon Aoula
  • Sidon (B)
  • Maghdouchi
  • Mount Liban
  • Al-Jdedit (G)
  • Alleh
  • Al-ghoubaira
  • Shiheem
  • Nabatiyye
  • Nabatiyye (G)
  • Hassan Al-Sabah
  • Jebsheet
  • Marjaoun

Interconnects all public and private schools and
available libraries together with the Ministry of
National Education over a state-of-the-art
telecommunications infrastructure with a gateway
to the global internet and supported by the
latest information and communications
technologies.
Internet
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PC4ALL
  • Partnership
  • Ministry of Education
  • PCA
  • OMSAR
  • Banking Sector
  • Company was formed in 2005 NATIONAL PC
  • Brand Name UNITY
  • Cost - 500
  • Hardware/Software/Training/Internet
  • To transform a highly literate Lebanese Society
    to an exemplary Digital Information Society
    within a period of 5 years through the provision
    of an affordable Personal Computer Pack to
    citizens, to be paid in easy single monthly
    installments over 2 to 3 years.

18
PICTA
  • Partnership
  • 22 September 2006
  • Locations
  • Nabatiyeh
  • Hasbayyah
  • Burj Al Barajneh
  • Qana
  • Bent Jbeil
  • Marjeyoun
  • Baalbeck
  • Batroun
  • Sibil
  • Ein
  • Alma Al Shaab
  • Shmastar

PCA ICT Academy (PICTA) are fully equipped and
staffed training and technology centers to help
local community members to connect with loved
ones in Lebanon and around the World, train young
people to develop their ICT skills and thus open
up potential job prospects, and to enhance the
lives of whole communities through access to the
latest communications technology.
19
Citizen Enterprise
  • Partnership
  • OMSAR
  • Private Sector
  • Citizen Enterprise
  • "LAffichage Picasso" which put at the disposal
    of OMSAR five thousand billboards to be used in
    campaigns for promotion of citizenship concepts
    and citizen - state relation
  • Team International which developed training
    programs tailored to meet the requirements and
    goals for developing the public sector.
  • Raidi printhouse which contributed printing
    17,000 copies of the booklet on the "Code of
    Conduct for Civil Servants in the public Sector,
    in addition to 2,000 posters.
  • Chemaly and Chemaly printhouse which
    contributed printing 10 thousand copies of the
    "Employee Guide" and 10 thousand cards for the
    Central Office for Administrative Information.

A dedicated enterprise concerned with sustained
development through allocating part of its
resources for development projects. It takes into
consideration the political, legal and social
affairs of the citizen, based on sound social and
environmental criteria and principles of ethics
and transparency.
20
Ministry of Education and Higher Education
  • Implementation of the project Partners in
    Learning (PIL) in collaboration with Microsoft
    and Eduware Data System
  • Equipping 16 resource centers in collaboration
    with CISCO and Harriri Foundation, in order to
    train teachers at public schools on the basic use
    of computers (computer literacy)
  • Renewal and upgrading of the Microsoft Academic
    Agreement which ensures the provision of latest
    Microsoft operating system releases and other
    Microsoft basic products (e.g. Microsoft Office,
    Exchange server and other)
  • Implementation of the project Pearls Microsoft
    which aims to train teachers on the basic uses of
    the computer as an educational tool, in
    collaboration with Intel
  • Building capacity of the educational consulate in
    collaboration with Hariri Foundation and the
    World Links

21
PPP at the Institute of Finance
  • 3 types of public private partnerships
  • Joint Consultative Committees
  • Partnerships on learning
  • Problem-solving partnerships
  • Objectives
  • Promoting dialogue among the private and public
    sectors
  • Networking
  • Sharing of expertise

22
Joint Consultative Committees
  • What is it?
  • A Forum bringing together representatives from
    the Lebanese private sector (known as the
    Lebanese Economic Instances) and the Ministry of
    Finance
  • Launched in 1999 Relaunched in September 2005.
  • What are the Objectives?
  • Improving the relationship between taxpayers and
    the financial and customs administrations
  • Simplifying existing administrative procedures
  • Promoting investment in the private sector.
  • Achievements?
  • In March 2006, 56 of the 84 suggestions were
    implemented by the Lebanese Government and in
    particular by the Ministry of Finance.

23
Partnerships in Learning
  • Memorandum of Understanding signed with
  • The Lebanese Association of Banks
  • SGBL
  • The Institute of Political Sciences - USJ
  • Objectives of the agreements
  • Joint Dissemination and learning activities via
    Conferences, workshops and other venues
  • Sharing of learning material
  • Exchange of trainers and trainees
  • Exchange and dissemination of publications of
    common interest.

24
Problem-solving Partnerships
  • Memorandum of Understanding signed with
  • The Lebanese Association of Certified Public
    Accountants (LACPA)
  • Objectives of the agreement
  • Discussing recent issues in taxation
  • Awareness and problem-solving.
  • Activities for 2007
  • Workshop on stamp duty
  • Workshop on VAT
  • Workshop on the Reformed Structure of the Mount
    Lebanon MoF Office
  • Workshop on fiscal procedures of off-shores and
    holdings
  • Workshop on Build Property tax.

25
Ministry of Telecommunication
  • Partnership
  • MOT and OGERO
  • ISP and DSPs (Data service Providers)
  • Through
  • Colocation (allow private sector to locate
    equipment in Public premises)
  • Unbundling of Local Loop (private sector can use
    the local loop in delivering DSL service to
    end-user)

26
Recommendations
  • PPP in the Lebanese Government is to be
  • Promoted
  • Mechanism to be introduced
  • Facilitated
  • Raising Awareness

27
  • Thank You
  • Tania Zaroubi
  • Senior ICT Project Manager
  • Office of the Minister of State for
    Administrative Reform (OMSAR)
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