The Institute for Development and Expertise of Projects, together with a number of mayor’s offices, issued an invitation to all the sides involved to take part in a conference on November 20 that will be held to strengthen public-private partnerships in Moldova. In this connection, there was launched the platform pppmoldova.org, where the potential participants in the conference, including speakers, can register.
In a news conference at IPN, director of the Institute for Development and Expertise of Projects Iurie Calestru said this is an initiative to transform the local challenges into opportunities for the business community. Regrettably, a roadmap that defines the steps that should be taken is informally circulated among mayors, but this does not say with whom and with what resources. “This project is a strategy of those who want to change the development framework in Moldova by offering the private companies the possibility of doing business transparently. Therefore, we launched the platform pppmoldova.org and invite all the players to take part, to register for the conference, including as speakers,” stated Iurie Calestru.
Mayor of Costesti Natalia Petrea said the public-private partnerships are an opportunity for developing communities. There are unused buildings and land in settlements and private businesses are encouraged to invest in communities. In Costesti, there was established a public-private partnership to build a grape packing house and this house started to be used in 2015. “In Costesti, we also have a project to build sewerage systems that would be managed by private companies. We also have a similar cleanup project. We now develop a tourist sports complex and when it is ready we will definitely look for a possibility to establish a public-private partnership. Our interest is not to concentrate this business potential into the hands of the state, but to enable the private businesses to manage it in a transparent way,” stated the mayor.
Mayor of Capaclia Alexei Busuioc said there are many things that the mayors could do together with the business community. In Capaclia, a potential investor gave up building a festivity hall in the village after this estimated the costs to be too high. If there was a public-private partnership, the given person would not pay for land at the initial stage and would buy this in time from the local authorities. The public-private partnerships bring multiple advantages to both of the sides and to people.
Lilia Brehova, mayor of Gura Bacului, said that without the investments of private entrepreneurs, they cannot do much. “For example, in Gura Bacului village we have a historical complex that is half owned by the mayor’s office and half owned by a private individual. Five villages situated on the banks of the Nistru have an investment plan to develop tourism and, surely, without the investments of private companies, the project does not have a future,” stated Lilia Brehova.
The conference scheduled for November 20 will take place in Chisinau.
