The Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) and the Ministry of Economy of the Tuzla Canton are organizing a three-day workshop in Sarajevo on Public-Private Partnerships "Strengthening the Capacity of Public Bodies in Processing of Public Private Partnership" with a financial support of the TAIEX Programme from October 30 to November 1^st, 2019.

Considering that Public Private Partnership represents a novelty in theory and practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, FIPA and the Ministry of Economy of Tuzla Canton applied for two TAIEX technical support activities in June 2018 in order to contribute, through the implementation of this instrument, to build the capacity of public bodies in the field of public-private partnership.

The workshop is intended to representatives of public bodies from the cantonal and local levels of government, who will work on the identification, preparation, contracting and monitoring of PPP projects, at which lecturers are representatives of institutions from EU Member States.

The workshop will enable representatives of public authorities to learn about the institutional framework and practice in the field of public-private partnership in EU Member States, to define the preconditions for identifying potential projects, to participate in the process of preparation and implementation of PPP projects, to develop models for monitoring PPP projects, analyse and propose potential PPP projects and similar.

Considering the increased interest of foreign investors in investing in PPP projects in BiH, and only a few such projects implemented so far, we hope that this workshop will contribute to an increase in the number of PPP projects, and consequently investments both foreign and domestic.