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Officials on a recent study tour to Canada on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) will share their experience with their counterparts in bureaux/departments at a seminar on July 31.
The purpose is to allow a wider cross section of civil servants and interested private sector practitioners to benefit from the lessons learned during the visit.
An Efficiency Unit spokesman today (July 9) said that the visit was organised by the unit, jointly with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Canada, and with assistance from the Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong and various Canadian ministries.
Comprising 19 directorate grade and senior professional officers from 14 policy bureaux and departments, the delegation visited Canada from June 19 to June 28 to experience Canadian approaches and practices in delivering public facilities and services by PPPs.
The Hong Kong delegation took the opportunity to learn from the experience of their Canadian counterparts, to learn what has worked and what has not, to facilitate consideration and development of its own programmes and projects, the spokesman added.
"Canada has developed considerable expertise in the PPP field. The PPP approach has been used extensively to deliver public services in sectors including health care, IT, sports and recreation, arts and culture, transportation and urban renewal at federal, provincial and local levels of government in Canada," he said.
Led by the Assistant Director of the Efficiency Unit, Mr Steve Barclay, the group took part in an eight-day long programme that included more than 40 site visits/briefings/meetings/workshops in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Victoria.
Ends/Sunday, July 9, 2006
Issued at HKT 14:01
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