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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)
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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.
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Government Responsibility
The government should take innovative
measures and undertake necessary actions
to ensure collaboration between
Public Sector
and
Private Sector
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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.
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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.
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PPP
PPP can cover many sectors:
ICT and e-Government
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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.
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e-Government
Knowledge
Opportunities
Growth
Empowerment
Chain reaction
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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.
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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
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World Summit on the Information Society
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 CDROM 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
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Five Websites
Partnership
 Talal Abou Ghazali
 OMSAR
Websites
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Ministry of Education and Higher Education
Ministry of Public Works
Ministry of Finance (Cadastre)
Ministry of Labor
ENA
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Community Access Centers
Involves the creation of ten new
Partnership
 Ministry of Social Affairs
community access centers in
 UNDP
various parts of Lebanon, in
 OMSAR
 Microsoft
collaboration with local
municipalities and the Ministry of
Locations
 Rmeich
Social Affairs. These centers will
 Mazboud
 Hammana provide ICT training courses as
 Ayoun
well as low cost Internet access to
 Houeich
Lebanese citizens.
 Rachaya
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Hermel
Bourj Hammoud
Seir Denneye
Jbeil
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SchoolNet Pilot Deployment
(Distribution of 24 public schools)
• Beirut
Internet
• South
Mouawad
• Tyre (B)
Interconnects all•• Rene
public
and
private
Fakhir Aldeen
• Sidon Aoula
Ashrafieh Aoula
• Sidon (B)
schools and ••available
libraries
Noor Moghaizal
• Maghdouchi
together with the Ministry of National
• Mount Liban
North
Education •over
a
state-of-the-art
• Al-Jdedit (G)
• Al-Hadadeen (G)
• Alleh
• Al-Hadadeen
(B)
telecommunications
infrastructure
• Al-ghoubaira
• Chekkah
• Shiheem
Zagharta
with a gateway •to
the global internet
and supported
• Nabatiyye
• Bekaa by the latest
• Nabatiyye (G)
• Zahleh
(B)
information and
communications
• Hassan Al-Sabah
• Jeb Janeen
• Jebsheet
• Baalbeck (G)
technologies.
• Housh Al-omara
• Marjaoun
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PC4ALL
Partnership To transform a highly literate
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Ministry of Education
Lebanese Society to an
PCA
exemplary Digital Information
OMSAR
Society within a period of 5 years
Banking Sector
through the provision of an
affordable Personal Computer
Pack to citizens, to be paid in
Company
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in 2005installments
– NATIONAL PC
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single
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Brand
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Cost - ~$500
Hardware/Software/Training/Internet
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PICTA
Partnership
 22 September 2006
PCA ICT Academy (PICTA) are fully
Locations
equipped and staffed training and
 Nabatiyehtechnology centers to help local community
 Hasbayyah members to connect with loved ones in
 Burj Al Barajneh
Lebanon and around the World, train young
 Qana
people to develop their ICT skills and thus
 Bent Jbeil open up potential job prospects, and to
 Marjeyoun enhance the lives of whole communities
 Baalbeck
through access to the latest
 Batroun
communications technology.
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Sibil
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Alma Al Shaab
Shmastar
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Citizen Enterprise
Partnership
 OMSAR
A dedicated
 Private Sector
enterprise concerned
with sustained development
through allocating part of its
Citizen Enterprise
resources
development
 "L’Affichage Picasso"
which put at for
the disposal
of OMSAR five thousand
billboards to be used in
campaigns for
of citizenship concepts and
projects.
Itpromotion
takes into
citizen - state relation
consideration the political, legal
 Team International which developed training programs tailored to meet the
requirements and
and goals
for developing
theof
public
sector.
social
affairs
the
citizen,
 “Raidi” printhousebased
which contributed
printingsocial
17,000 copies
on sound
andof the booklet on
the "Code of Conduct for Civil Servants in the public Sector”, in addition to
2,000 posters. environmental criteria and
 “Chemaly and Chemaly”
printhouse which
contributed
printing 10 thousand
principles
of ethics
and
copies of the "Employee Guide" and 10 thousand cards for the Central Office
transparency.
for Administrative Information.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Problem-solving Partnerships
 Memorandum of Understanding signed with:
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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.
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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)
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Recommendations
PPP in the Lebanese Government is to be:
 Promoted
 Mechanism to be introduced
 Facilitated
 Raising Awareness
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Thank You
Tania Zaroubi
Senior ICT Project Manager
Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR)
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