The Victorian Industry Participation Policy (VIPP) was passed as an effort of the Victorian Government to create a flow of work opportunities for the local industries (small and medium enterprises) by giving them the right legal framework to participate in public procurement in an even field. “VIPP requires government departments and agencies to consider competitive local suppliers, including SMEs, when awarding contracts valued at: $1 million or more in regional Victoria, or $3 million or more in metropolitan Melbourne or for state-wide activities.”

Through this Act, the Victorian government is mandated to create a policy that promotes and incentivize the participation of small and medium enterprises in public projects and procurement financed or launched partially or wholly by the State. Some of the Act’s objectives are: “promoting employment and business growth by expanding market opportunities for local industry; and providing contractors with increased access to, and raised awareness of, local industry capability”.

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The Malawian PPP framework provides for indigenous participation in PPP projects by establishing that they should be structured in such a way that encourage the maximum use of local content and technology transfer. “As much as possible, the PPP arrangement should facilitate the promotion and linkages with local industries and the private sector in Malawi.” (Section 7.2.7)

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This National Policy establishes “Local Content and Technology Transfer” as one of the guiding principles for the development and implementation of PPPs. The text says: “III. Guiding Principles for PPPs (…) 12. All PPP arrangements in Ghana shall be guided by the following principles: (…) Local content & technology transfer: PPP projects shall be structured to encourage the maximum use of local content and technology transfer. As much as possible, the PPP arrangement shall facilitate the promotion of local industries and the private sector in Ghana.”

These Guidelines form part of a group of national guidelines prepared by the Australian Government in order to develop PPP projects under specific directives. Specially, the Practitioners’ Guide is intended to help the Government to uniformly implement PPP projects.

This document discusses several topics of local content requirements (LCR) in renewable energy projects such as arguments in favor and against them; their effectiveness; cases involved LCR in solar and wind energy; and alternatives for dealing with LCR.

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In this document, Bechtel shares some of its experiences in implementing local content in the delivery of its projects and cites case-studies as examples.

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This is a Guide prepared by the International Finance Corporation in collaboration with Engineers Against Poverty that aims to help companies, interested in creating linkages with local small and medium enterprises, create a policy that engages local content in their procurement processes.

The document is divided in 4 chapters which are meant to be the steps to follow for a successful local content policy. Those are: 1. Company self-assessment; 2. Business drivers; 3. Defining local; and 4. Policy.

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This document from the World Bank presents the results of a study done on the local content policies in the oil and gas sector. It explains how these type of policies although with the potential to “stimulate broad-based economic development”, have showed mixed results, and what their effects are in certain sectors of the economy.

The document goes through several topics such as what local content policies are; arguments in favor and against them; different local content policy instruments that have been used by petroleum-producing countries; and case-studies.

The Law provides that local preference not exceeding 10% may be granted to Rwanda companies or Rwandan nationals or bidders in reginal economic integration bodies member states.

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