The Gambia Public-Private Partnerships Operational Guidelines
The Guidelines apply to all projects undertaken in PPP by government entities established in The Gambia.
In order to reduce the administrative burden of the PPP framework the application of the Guidelines may be restricted to projects with an investment cost or a contract value exceeding a threshold, to be determined by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs.
To determine the scope of the Guidelines the term “PPP” must be defined. This task is made difficult by the fact there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes a PPP. Many different definitions of PPP can be found in the scientific literature, as well as in guidance manuals and legislative documents issued in other countries or by international institutions. However, although different, these definitions are also all broadly similar so that they allow to derive a set of common characteristics of what is generally understood to be a PPP.
