Do PPDs Need a Legal Mandate?

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Do PPDs Need a Legal Mandate?

• A Case study from Tanzania

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National context

• Tanzania
• population 35.9 m
• per-capita income of US 330
• low ranking in WB Doing Business survey
• Private sector participates in
• tax task force
• the public expenditure review working groups
• Tanzania National Business Council (TNBC)
• Donors support PSOs to influence reforms at the
  district level

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Public-Private Dialogue in the Municipality of
Moshi

• Objectives
• identify issues blocking businesses
• establish and sustain PPD
• Structure
• Private Sector Advocacy Committee
• a coalition committee organized by sector
• The Moshi Business Council
• 5 members from Municipal Council
• 5 members from private sector,
• Chair is the Municipal Director,
• The PS Heads the secretariat
• Meetings
• Held quarterly
• Agreement by consensus

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Vision, processes and milestones

• The vision
• to see that the public-private dialogue platform
  is legally registered and investment environment
  improved
• The process of advocacy
• sector chairs identify sector roadblocks
• issues are processed
• advocacy issues are vetted by the platform
• Municipal Council adopts proposed reforms.
• Anticipated milestones
• Regulatory Impact Assessment on municipal by-laws
• Exposure of members to best practice in PPD
• Workshop for councilors to appreciate PS
• Signing a MOU between PS and MMC
• PS mobilized to form grassroots advocacy
  committee
• Moshi Business Council is legislated

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Questions and challenges

• Difficulties in the beginning
• Lack of political will
• Public sector focus on written laws
• Legal mandate for PPD is therefore a step in a
  right direction
• Challenges
• How do we cultivate political will among civil
  servants with a socialist mind-set?
• How do we convince entrepreneurs to advocate when
  they are used to paying their way through?