Implementing unique Ghanaian PPP

At the second Global Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Conference recently held in Kumasi, the Minister of State in charge of Public, Private Partnerships (PPP), Mr Rashid Pelpuo, reiterated the government’s decision to partner the private sector for infrastructural development to stimulate economic growth.

He identified energy, roads, hospitals, harbours, aviation, housing etc. as key priority areas. But, what has elicited this write-up is the call at the conference by the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Kumasi, Mr Kojo Bonsu, for a framework that allows the private sector to channel resources and expertise into infrastructural development at the local level.

According to the 2010 Africa Infrastructural Country Diagnostic Report (AICD) published by the World Bank, Ghana is ahead of much of the continent in many facets of infrastructural development. We score well above our low-income peers on household access to road, power, water and mobile telephones.

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