PSDPCC

Supporting PSD Policy

Private Sector Development Policy Coordination Committee (PSDPCC)

The Private Sector Development Policy Coordination Committee (PSDPCC) is the only strategic public sector platform for private sector-related policy review, coordination, identification of investment barriers, and fostering of public-private cooperation. PSD PCC has been established as per a Government Notification no 03.068.022.03.00.24.2011-377 on 12 September 2011 by the Prime Minister’s Office. The committee is chaired by the Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, now Chief Adviser’s Office. This committee has a membership of 13 secretaries from different ministries and five members from leading chambers and associations involved in trade and business, providing co-option of other members as and when necessary.

Objectives of the committee involve improving the enabled policy environment for private sector development; achieving the strategic goals as determined in 8FYP for private sector development; helping to create an investment-friendly environment to attract more FDI; coordinating both public and private sectors for better business; reviewing the progress of implementation of PSD reforms to identify roadblocks to execution and devise strategies to overcome roadblocks.

The committee has been formed to review all related activities for private sector development initiated by both the public and private sectors and make recommendations; to review the overall investment scenario in the private sector and set out ways to improve it; identify bottlenecks in private sector development and set out recommendations with a view to removing all bottlenecks, and to recommend actions for building cooperation between public and private sectors with a view to private sector development.

Members of the Committee

Chair

Mohammad Tofazzel Hossain Miah

Public

Dr Md Khairuzzaman Mozumder

Tapan Kanti Ghosh

Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem

Satyajit Karmaker

A. B. M. Amin Ullah Nuri

Md Monjur Hossain

Zakia Sultana

Md Shamsul Arefin

Dr Farhina Ahmed

Maj. Gen. Abul Kalam Mohammad Ziaur Rahman

Abu Farah Md Nasser

Mohsina Yasmin

Private

Mahbubul Alam

Kamran T. Rahman

Ashraf Ahmed

Omar Hazzaz

Dr Md Mushfiqur Rahman

Prof. Dr Md Masudur Rahman

Secretarial Support of the PSDPCC​

A Policy Coordination Unit (PCU) was established on 13 September 2011 at the PMO, comprising essential officials of the PMO, Director General-1 and Director-1, to provide support services to PSDPCC. BUILD has been providing all secretarial services and working very closely with PMO. It is recognised as the primary source of information and a strategic partner of the PSDPCC, established at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in 2011. In addition, the Prime Minister’s Office published a gazette on 1 January 2020 (03.068.022.2015/onsho.3/13) and engaged BUILD as the Secretariat for research to the PSDPCC.

Role of PCC in Reform Architecture

pBUILD is a vehicle to convey research-backed inputs and policy suggestions from the private sector as a government’s strategic partner. BUILD acts under planned reform architecture. Through this reform architecture, the WCs under BUILD, with support from the BUILD Secretariat, act as the core partners and Secretariat of the PSDPCC, where complex inter-ministerial issues are raised and resolved alongside recommendations proposed by BUILD. So far, 50 policy papers have been presented in the last 14 full PSDPCC meetings, one review meeting has been held, and around 135 reform recommendations have been implemented.

PSDPCC Meetings of BUILD

The PSDPCC continues to facilitate the ongoing submission and discussion of reform policy papers, with numerous recommendations already approved and implementation efforts currently underway as part of its sustained commitment to driving progressive change.

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