MUSCAT: The Steering Committee supervising initiatives of the National Programme for Enhancing Economic Diversification (Tanfeedh) at the Secretariat-General of the Supreme Council for Planning (SCP) on Tuesday held a meeting under the chairmanship of Talal bin Sulaiman al Rahbi, SCP Deputy Secretary-General.
The committee viewed the progress of work in the three initiatives that came as per outputs of the National Programme for Enhancing Economic Diversification (Tanfeedh). They are a classification projects initiative for partnership with the private sector, and the enterprise capacity building initiative and the initiative to establish two government institutions for management of government projects.
The committee also reviewed the indicators approved for 2018 and their targeted ratios in these initiatives in general, as well as a summary of the work and the preparations of the taskforce formed to follow up the implementation of these initiatives, in addition to the challenges and the proposed recommendations that would achieve the objectives.
Representatives of the taskforce provided the latest updates on the follow-up to government institutions concerned with projects that are subject to partnership with the private sector and which the team is considering, in coordination with those institutions to classify those projects and study the extent of their ability to partnership, as well as setting appropriate standards to present such projects for the private sector.
The representative of the action team of the initiative on building capacity of government institutions to classify projects pointed to the beginning of preparations to organise two training programmes during 2018, after the inclusion of recommendations and lessons learned from the training programme held in 2017.
The Steering Committee also discussed the initiative to establish two government institutions for management of government projects.
It concluded that government agencies could benefit from the existing companies to manage its projects to enhance efficiency and effectiveness as work is under way to formulate the contractual framework that enables those parties to benefit from institutions’ services within legal and fair mechanisms. — ONA
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