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A paradigm shift from ownership to delivery: Embracing public private
partnerships as part of our economic strategy
Arthur
Mutambara, Deputy Prime Minister
June 05, 2009
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Our
country has gone through an unprecedented economic downturn over
the past decade. The related challenges affecting our industries,
public institutions and citizens include the following; high country
risk, unavailable and unaffordable infrastructure (water, power,
roads/railways, telecoms), low capacity utilization, low production,
under-capitalization, economic stagnation, skills drain and rampant
unemployment. As the Inclusive Government of Zimbabwe embarks on
a mission to address these problems, the starting point should be
reducing country risk through rebranding the country, while embarking
on a comprehensible infrastructural development and rehabilitation
plan. The availability and cost of water, power, telecoms, and logistics
affect both private and public institutions. Infrastructure is an
input to every citizen and every institution.
Beyond resolving
the infrastructural challenges and attracting both domestic and
foreign investment, the agenda should be driving shared economic
growth and job creation through increased production and productivity
in agriculture, mining and manufacturing, while instituting reform
and capacitation of public sector institutions. This will then result
in dramatic increase in both industrial capacity utilization and
disposable incomes, while our education, health, social and local
government sectors will then flourish. This is the democratic, prosperous
and globally competitive Zimbabwe we seek to establish. In pursuit
of this vision the role of the State must be clearly redefined as
that of an enabler and facilitator. The Private Sector and Civic
Society are the doers. More significantly, we must recast and rethink
our understanding of sovereignty, away from the traditional emphasis
on ownership of non-performing assets to the ability to effectively
and efficiently deliver high quality and affordable services to
both citizens and institutions. Delivery and not ownership should
be the operative word in both the Private and Public Sectors.
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