Awareness of Public-Private Partnership in Coastal Municipalities of Batangas Province, Philippines

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) has drawn the Philippines an agreement with contract between the Government and the private firm. The main target of this project is for financing, designing and implementing different infrastructure facilities and services for the public benefits. This study verified the respondent’s awareness in Private and Public Partnership of different coastal municipalities in the Province of Batangas; assess the Demographic profile in terms of age, occupation and length of stay; determine the level of awareness of Public and Private sectors in terms of PPP; differentiate the level of awareness between Public and Private Sectors in the Coastal municipalities of Batangas Province; Confirm the significant relationship between the level awareness and the demographic profile. Descriptive research was used to determine the factors that may contribute to the formulations of PPP framework. It was concluded that most of the respondents are below 25 years old in public and 36- 45 in private sectors . There are more respondent in the public sectors than in private sectors. Both the public and private sectors have moderate level of awareness of the PPP. Both sectors are slightly aware about the current PPP programs For assessment of implementation; In all other indicators, there is moderate level of awareness .The public and private sectors have no significant difference in their level of awareness of the profile variables.

Keywords –Public Private Partnerships, , PPP Framework, Tourism Sector