Public-Private Partnership Operational Guidelines.

These Operational Guidelines, in consistency with the National Public-Private Partnership Policy of The Gambia, provide implementing agencies and the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Directorate with a procedural framework and analytical tools enabling them to assess whether the use of PPP can deliver net benefits in a specific project, and how these benefits can be effectively achieved. The Guidelines apply to all projects undertaken in PPP by government entities, provide for definitions and common characteristics of various model of PPP, describes the main types of PPP arrangements, including: conventional public procurement; management contract, used for existing water treatment plant; operating concession; privatisation. The Guidelines describe: critical success factors of a PPP project; stages and decision points of the PPP project cycle; roles and duties of public institutions in the projects, including: investment and secured funding; environmental and social analysis during the feasibility study, including gender impact on the community, water and air quality analysis; implementation stage; indicative table of contents of PPP agreements, including: intellectual property rights, purchase of equipment.