Institutional/Organizational Improvement and Public-Private Dialogue

JAA has achieved notable successes in helping public and private clients to restructure, focus and improve the performance of key institutions. These assignments have included sector-wide restructuring (e.g. Botswana’s transport sector); creation of sound institutions for public-private dialogue and competitiveness (e.g. competitiveness councils), apex business organizations, think-tanks; improvement and establishment of member driven business associations, restructuring of individual businesses, and restructuring of individual service agencies. JAA also has quite extensive experience in the restructuring and improvement of educational and academic institutions, linking them to market based needs.

An important element of institutional development, competitiveness and private sector development projects is the attention paid to the development of public-private dialogue. Whether creating a mechanism to jump-start dialogue or strengthening existing mechanisms of dialogue; the development of a system by which the private sector and public sector can discuss issues related to the economic and social development of a country and plan for future development s a key element of many projects.

JAA’s involvement in the development of the Manual for Action in the Private Sector (MAPS) projects, the precursor to many competitiveness related projects, included an important element of dialogue development through the diagnostic studies of the economic and business context within various countries. These diagnostics provided the necessary information for the private sector to engage the public sector on action plans to remove obstacles of economic development.

In recent JAA competitiveness and related projects, the mechanism, which has been especially effective, has been the development of competitiveness councils, as a means to fostering public-private dialogue and action. JAA has or is working on the development and implementation of national competitiveness councils in Croatia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Uganda.

An alternative to developing a new mechanism for dialogue promotion is to strengthen existing forums for engaging the private and public sectors. In Bulgaria, JAA is involved in the strengthening of the Economic Growth Council, to improve business collaboration as a means to fostering a more cohesive private sector to engage with the public sector.

Please follow the link below to access examples of projects on which JAA’s work focused on Institutional/Organizational Improvement and Public-Private Dialogue.