The Marcos administration had worked as early as July to make a pivot from the Duterte administration’s preference to depend heavily on official development assistance as a means to support infrastructure development. | RonWDomingoINQ /PDI
Meanwhile, another 14 PPP projects are under “pre-project preparation.” Examples are the Air Traffic Services-Air Navigation Services project, Bike Share program, the operations and maintenance of the LRT Line 2, the O&M of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit system, and a Vaccine Self-Reliance project.
These were intended to foster PPP initiatives in sectors such as manufacturing, tourism, business process outsourcing and the creative industry as well as in logistics, transportation, telecommunications and water. In February, Balisacan said that despite improvements in the IRR, the BOT law still needed to be amended to better enable the government to push PPP projects and its infrastructure program.
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