The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center trained Ateneo de Naga University’s Center for Local Governance (ADNU-CLG) in Camarines Sur as part of its efforts to reach out to more local governments eyeing the PPP option for their infrastructure and development projects.
From February 10-12, 2015, the PPP Center conducted a Training of Trainers’ (TOT) program for ADNU-CLG staff being one of its Local Capacity Building Institutions (LCBI) partners. The program covered topics on the whole life cycle of PPPs from project development, preparation of the project bidding documents and procurement, to actual implementation and monitoring of the PPP agreement.
Fr. Primitivo E. Viray Jr., SJ, President of Ateneo De Naga University, and Dr. Malu C. Barcillano, Director of the ADNU-CLG participated in the said activity along with thirteen professors, instructors, researchers, and consultants from the university.
The PPP Center partnered with several Local Capacity Building Institutions (LCBI) in state universities and colleges and higher education institutions to provide PPP capacity building interventions at the local level.
PPP Center Executive Director Cosette Canilao stressed that this initiative is consistent with the PPP Center’s commitment to expand its reach and to share its resources to facilitate properly prepared projects at the local level.
To date, the Center has already forged its LCBI partnership with other institutions including UP Diliman-School of Regional and Urban Planning’s UP Planades, De La Salle University-Manila’s Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance, Ateneo de Zamboanga’s Center for Local Governance, and UP Los Baños’s College of Public Affairs and Development.
