Private Dialogue Research Articles

PUBLIC PRIVATE DIALOGUE: AN INNOVATIVE POLICY APPROACH TO HOUSING DELIVERY IN LAGOS STATE.

Public Private Dialogue (PPD) is an institutional arrangement that engages the public and private sector in discussions to resolve issues. These dialogue sessions may last for a few hours or continue for several months or years until an inclusive policy is formulated. This study focused on public-private dialogue in housing policy formulation in Lagos State. It explored how PPD can create increased housing delivery through innovative changes in policy formulation. Studies show that proactive public and private sector engagements create better opportunities for housing policy formulation. The government should intensify efforts and create opportunities for private participation in discussions through town hall meetings and dialogue sessions to formulate workable housing policies and reforms that will help actualize the housing needs of the citizens. The study employed selective sampling. Data was obtained through administered questionnaires on a population of 150 household heads in IKorodu on how involved they were in formulating Lagos State government housing policies. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results show that State housing policies were designed through public sector initiatives with little or no input from the private sector. The study further revealed that institutions that adopt the PPD approach in their engagements and operations have higher staff motivation and increased productivity

Independent directors and environmental innovations: How the visibility of public and private shareholders' environmental activism moderates the influence of board independence

AbstractWhile independent directors focus on preserving the shareholders' interests, their individual preferences may differ with regard to how environmental innovations have to be considered. A growing importance of shareholders' environmental activism has sought to influence firms' environmental practices through public proposals and private negotiations with executives. Using a sample of 7111 firms listed in the S&P 1500 index between 2006 and 2019, we examine how the visibility of shareholders' environmental proposals moderates the relationship between board independence and environmental innovations. Our findings show that public and private shareholder activism related to community issues and external reporting reinforces the positive influence of independent directors on firms' environmental innovations. However, private dialogues between executives and environmental activists focused on emissions from company operations diminish the influence of independent directors. Our study sheds light on how the external visibility of the topics involved in the activists' environmental proposals reinforces the interest of independent directors in advancing environmental innovations.

Expanding the English as an International Language paradigm from different native language perspectives

Abstract The present paper aims at expanding the English as an International Language (EIL) paradigm and providing new insights into the current status and role of EIL.1 The main focus of the study is on information structuring (IS) in dialogic speech events to show how IS affects the use of particular constructions, namely it-clefts, wh-cleft and topicalisation (left dislocation) which seem to show higher frequency in EIL than in standard English (Biber et al. 1998). For the purpose of this preliminary study, samples of spoken ELF data including private dialogues and academic discussions were selected from the VOICE (Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English) to investigate left-right asymmetries in EIL interactions, which is an area still lacking of attention with respect to lexical and other phrasal phenomena.

Supervision Management and Evaluation of the Principal of School at Madrasah Aliyah Al-Musdariyah Cimahi

The purpose of this study is to assess the management of supervision and evaluation of the Principal at MA Al Musdariya Cimahi. This study's methodology employs descriptive qualitative analysis to examine the management, supervision, and evaluation of school principals. Interview techniques, documentation, and observations that were directly derived from primary data and secondary data were employed in technical data analysis.The following are the outcomes of the application of supervision; First, the Individual technique, which entails (a) visiting classes, (b) watching classes, and (c) having private dialogues. The second category of group techniques consists of discussions and teacher meetings. Evaluation At MA Al Musdariyah, supervision management is carried out by the principal in his capacity as an evaluator by reviewing all school administrative arrangements made by all instructors to ensure that supervision and evaluation function as they should.

ANALISIS KOMITMEN DAN KEMAMPUAN PELAKU USAHA MARKETPLACE TERHADAP PERATURAN PEMERINTAH NOMOR 80 TAHUN 2019

The potential of Indonesia's e-commerce sector is estimated to reach US$ 137.5 billion by 2025 and become the largest in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, the development of the e-commerce sector is regulated in Government Regulation Number 80 of 2019 concerning Trade through Electronic Systems (PP PMSE). This analysis aims to see the level of commitment and ability of marketplace actors in complying with the provisions in PP PMSE, considering their dominant role in Indonesia’s e-commerce. By using the Rule, Opportunity, Capacity, Communication, Interest, Process, Ideology (ROCCIPI) approach, respondents perceive that licensing, personal data protection, and consumer protection are clear and in accordance with the commitment and ability of the respondent. However, respondents' perceptions regarding the sale of domestic products and the practice of fair business competition need to be addressed so as to provide a clear reference. Regulations will be effective if they can foster the commitment and capability of business actors. Therefore, the essence of the policy recommendations is to focus on efforts to increase sales of domestic products as well as supervision that supports fair and sound competition. Since the commitment and capability of business actors to comply will determine effective regulations, the Co-Regulation approach needs to be used in the policy-making process by prioritizing Public Private Dialogue (PPD) that optimizes existing regulations, and harmonizes with the direction of global cooperation in e-commerce development.

Role of Special Economic Zone in Development: Status of Nepal

Nepal initiated the concept of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) since 1980s. However, the process of construction of infrastructure development and operation of such zone is very slow. Now there is only one SEZ is in operation partially and one is ready for operation. SEZ can play an important role to uplift the economic condition of Nepal as it is in the process of graduating to developing country from least developed countries (LDCs) in near future and meeting the 2030 agendas of SDGs. Investment in productive sector increase the production and productivity that leads towards the import substitution and export promotion. To attract both foreign and domestic investment SEZ is an important mechanism. This article has focused on how the role of economic zone can be enhanced in development of Nepal. It has identified some challenges to be addressed and the opportunities that need to be grasped. 
 Based on the analysis of the status of SEZ in Nepal this study has recommended some areas of reforms for effective operation of on-going SEZ and upcoming SEZ in Nepal. Reforms of existing legal, institutional and procedures mechanism related to SEZ are required to create conducive environment to attract domestic, foreign and multinational companies inside the zone. Adequate research and development on the sector of comparative advantage and competitiveness is necessary and at the same time, public private dialogue and international networking in this regard is also equally important.

Types Of Speech Act Performed By Private In The Movie "Penguin Of Madagascar"

This purpose of this research is to identify and elaborate the speech acts that are utilized in the animated movie Penguin of Madagascar to the understanding of language function, alongside to point out the manifestation of speech acts adoption either in the real life or fiction dialogues. This study employed qualitative approach in which the research object contained the dialogues in the movies. The data were collected from an observation which is done by watching Penguin of Madagascar and then were distinguished Private dialogues according to the speech act distinguishment. The research outcome refers to the result that there are myriads of speech acts functions in the movie which applied from the language functions. The acts of speech itself were classified into expressive, representative, directive, commissive, declaration. The implementation of acts of speech functions is done by utilizing the dialogues of Private inside Penguin of Madagascar as a tool to manifest the language function and manifestation to the speech acts itself.

Unnatural Narratology: Extension, Revisions, and Challenges ed. by Jan Alber and Brian Richardson (review)

Reviewed by: Unnatural Narratology: Extension, Revisions, and Challenges ed. by Jan Alber and Brian Richardson Nozomi Irei Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, eds. Unnatural Narratology: Extension, Revisions, and Challenges. Ohio State UP, 2020. 232p. Reviews are published in alphabetical order according to the name of the author reviewed. We gratefully acknowledge the many review copies supplied by The Ohio State University Press for this issue. Jan Alber and Brian Richardson have compiled a thoughtfully diverse collection of essays as a follow-up to A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative (2013, co-edited with Henrik Skov Nielsen). The editors’ refreshing approach is apparent in their “Introduction,” which might surprise some readers who are looking for a summary of each chapter--yet, careful readers will immediately appreciate the rigorous overview of the recent landscape of unnatural narratology, various definitions of “the unnatural” and other terms (including differences in scholars’ definitions), and responses to critics of unnatural narratology. It is notable that each essay also clearly defines its use of the term “unnatural” relative to other scholars’ use of it. Summaries of the essays are saved for the “Afterword,” but this is not merely a shift in sequencing. Rather than lengthy summaries, the editors present thoughtful, fair responses to each contribution. This section makes the volume a truly engaging work. The editors offer meticulous explanations (with extensive footnotes) of why they agree/disagree and emphasize how each essay opens up possibilities for future engagement. As the “Introduction” describes, “unnatural narratology” might seem to be a “newfangled” approach, but as the essays demonstrate, unnatural narratology cannot be reduced to a study of postmodern fiction and its “deconstruction” of narrative structures. Indeed, references to more traditional texts, such as Shakespeare’s plays or those by other familiar writers like Brecht, end up proving just how “ubiquitous” the unnatural is. While some contributors state this explicitly, others do not. Nevertheless, even the latter, by dint of their analyses of a variety of textual fields and mediums--from novels, short stories, and films to staged performances, TV commercials, interactive [End Page 95] gamebooks, cartoons, and graphic narratives--make a strong argument for investigating the unnatural in textual fields where it may often be overlooked, at the expense of ignoring narrative intricacies and their larger implications. For instance, Richardson’s analysis of the “unnatural” (and its “u-effect” [156] à la Brecht) may offer new ways to consider Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt, beyond conventional discourses on alienation. Several contributions reframe traditional concepts of narratology, such as fabula, syuzhet, and diegesis, explaining how their analyses develop or challenge these concepts. There are also efforts to delineate the differences between concepts, for instance, of “nonmimetic” versus “anti-mimetic” or unnatural narration versus “magical realism.” Each essay, regardless of the historical placement of the analyzed text, highlights the implications for narrative studies that could not be investigated as long as we took for granted concepts of mimesis. In this way, the collection is tied to unnatural narratology’s post-structuralist heritage (insofar as starting as a response to postmodernist texts [1]) but expands the question beyond a binary opposition of mimetic versus non-mimetic--or, natural versus unnatural (10). The essays offer possibilities for (re)interpretations based on the developing concept of the unnatural, including that of challenging traditional concepts of mimesis--which also brings into play challenges to other concepts, such as “the probable” and “the possible.” This collection expands critical approaches to the unnatural to include a wide variety: feminism, affect studies, and “postcolonialism” (albeit the term is used carefully by Klein not as a “temporal” marker but to denote an “enhanced awareness of the colonial legacies” [54], since the status of being colonized is still a reality for many peoples). Unnatural Narratology is also rich in its analyses grounded on close readings of one text, as well as comparative analyses between genre, medium, national languages, philosophical grounding, or theoretical approaches. Furthermore, because of the wide-ranging textual fields analyzed, the volume resists coming across as a private dialogue among only a coterie of “unnatural narratologists.” Rather, its dialogue invites readers to consider the implications not only for narratology, but also for the broader problem of representation. In the interest of space...

Shareholder Stewardship Enforcement

One of the central problems of shareholder stewardship around the world is rendering institutional investors good monitors of their investee companies and improving their accountability to both companies and their own beneficiaries and clients. The co-existence of soft norms (stewardship codes or principles) as well as semi-hard and hard law rules across the globe raises important questions about the future of shareholder stewardship frameworks and their enforcement. In this paper, we investigate this problem focusing on the availability (or not) of strategies to enforce shareholder stewardship. We adopt a broad approach to enforcement mechanisms in the area of shareholder stewardship and set out a simple conceptual taxonomy based on three dimensions. The proposed taxonomy takes into account the nature of the norm enforcer and distinguishes between self-enforcement and third-party enforcement. In the latter we consider public, quasi-public, private, market and social norm-enforcers. These actors may or not be the standard setters of the relevant norms. We then distinguish between formal – in the sense of either (quasi)judicial proceedings or membership/adherence sanctions within stewardship networks – and informal enforcement mechanisms. Finally, we take into account the temporal dimension of enforcement and distinguish between ex ante (monitoring and deterrence) and as ex post compliance. Our starting point is that, for market actors to be able to absorb bottom-up or, most importantly, top-down regulation, flexibility in adapting to best shareholder stewardship practices is needed. Indeed, examining the enforcement mode of shareholder stewardship across 25 countries we confirm that informal enforcement by market actors is the preferred option. Looking forward, we sketch the broad contours of an optimal shareholder stewardship enforcement framework based on our proposed taxonomy. We caution against administrative sanctions and support instead a facilitating role for public and quasi-public actors in two distinct ways. First, public and quasi-public actors can facilitate shareholder stewardship enforcement via membership/adherence sanctions taking place within stewardship networks (such as public tiering) or informal mechanisms (including public information diffusion through annual reports and guidelines, public reputational mechanisms, such as ‘name and shame’, and private dialogue). Secondly, where ultimate investors have suffered damages from deficient disclosure of engagement policies, we support the introduction of a facilitating system of civil claims initiated by public or quasi-public authorities that can serve both restorative-compensatory objectives and public interests. We also advance the importance of promoting and refining enforcement by market and social actors. Our proposed enforcement framework is not intended to be applied in a uniform fashion around the world. Rather its multi-actor, multi-modal and temporally continuous fashion can adjust to any national or supranational framework.

Company Receptivity in Private Dialogue on Sustainability Risks

This study examines empirically the efficiency of private collaborative dialogues between Nordic institutional investors and companies included in the MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) World stock market index. It contributes to an understanding of the conditions that allow active institutional investors to elect to work with more receptive and progressive companies and improve the efficiency of private engagement and dialogue. Stakeholder silence theory and Gond et al.’s model of company perceptions of enablers and barriers to the success of engagement are introduced to analyse the efficiency of private dialogue. The study investigates a proprietary dataset covering the characteristics of 109 complete dialogue processes related to material environmental, social, and corruption issues. The dialogues are led by a professional engagement agent in collaboration with its Nordic clients. The multivariate regression analysis shows that sustainability risk, bureaucracy, and experience are the specific conditions under which the target company can become more receptive to activism by making more progress to address institutional investors’ requests during the hidden dialogue process.

Grammaticalization of semi-modals of necessity in Asian Englishes

AbstractThe decline of central modalmustand the increase in frequency of the semi-modalshave (got) to, need (to), andwant tois one of the most conspicuous grammatical changes that inner-circle varieties of English underwent in the second half of the 20th century. Such a replacement correlates with the increasing grammaticalization of the semi-modals in terms of semantic and quantitative developments. The current paper explores the differential grammaticalization of these items in four Asian varieties of English – those spoken in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines – with the aim of building a grammaticalization index that will allow us to measure the extent to which the replacement of modalmustwith the semi-modals is completed in each of the varieties as compared to British English. After analyzing data from the private dialogue sections of the corresponding ICE corpora, Hong Kong English is shown to be the variety in which the replacement is closest to British English, followed by the Philippines, Singapore and India.

Socialist Television Drama, Newspaper Critics and the Battle of Ideas During the Crisis of Britain's Post-War Settlement.

Due to the difficult methodological issues it presents, political historians are wary of using television - the most important mass medium of the later twentieth century - as a means of exploring vernacular political thinking. Attempting to show how television audiences were encouraged to think politically, the article outlines a method generated through an engagement with the work of disciplines beyond history, to help political historians more systematically assess the medium's popular impact. The article takes as its case study Britain during the 1970s, one of the most ideologically contested periods in the country's history. It analyses how television critics employed by the Daily Mirror and Daily Express encouraged their millions of readers to respond to the dramas of socialist playwrights Jim Allen and Trevor Griffiths, thereby giving historians an insight into the shape of those conversations spawned by their work, such private dialogues being the place where the full political meaning of television was ultimately created.

Fostering innovation under institutional deficiencies: formal state–business consultation or cronyism?

This paper is trying to investigate whether formal state–business consultations (or simply public private dialogues—PPD) and/or cronyism could counteract low institutional capacities and provide the needed mechanisms for fostering innovation. It is doing this with the help of a theoretical discussion highlighting the links between National Innovation System, state business relations (SBR) and good governance institutions. This is then followed by an empirical study based on this discussion and using various OLS multivariate panel regressions. Evidence is found that the presence of business associations that are widely participated help in promoting innovation. They do this also in countries suffering from low institutional settings, and correct for the shortcomings caused by low regulatory quality. PPD play also an important role in counteracting institutional deficiencies that could otherwise harm innovation; and this is specifically the case for low government effectiveness. High official representation in PPD is a key for such needed outcome. PPD, however, need an open climate where the government is accountable to various societal groups and where different interest groups are free to aggregate their power. On the other hand, favoritism in allocation of resources and Cronyism might counteract institutional deficiencies, especially with regard to low government effectiveness and low regulatory quality. Yet, the overall effect of cronyism on innovation is still negative. Tackling the reduction of cronyism as an objective presents PPD as an alternative that could counteract low government effectiveness and high participation in business associations as another alternative which manages to counteract low regulatory quality, provided that cronyism is minimized in both cases. The novelty of this study rests on the contribution it aims at providing in an area where research is insufficient. There is lack of research on how innovation is affected generally by SBR, and more specifically by either formal or informal forms of SBR and cronyism. Empirical studies are even scarcer in this regard.

State business relations and innovation in the MENA region

ABSTRACTUnderstanding that Innovation is a major determinant of economic growth, this paper is investigating how to foster Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region given the institutional deficiencies suffered in many of its countries. More specifically, this paper is trying to find out how State-Business Relations (SBR) have contributed to Innovation capacities of the MENA. It also investigates whether SBR have counteracted some of the region's institutional deficiencies which hinder Innovation. While doing this, this paper differentiates between formal SBR (e.g. public private dialogues) and informal SBR (relations based on family, ethnic or political connections), and puts more theoretical emphasis on the National Innovation System (NIS) approach for fostering innovation. It uses regression analysis and provides three relatively (Innovation-wise) advanced non-Gulf MENA countries as examples for the sake of enriching the discussion through a comparative analysis; these are: Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Using various multivariate panel OLS regressions, various important findings are obtained. The results suggest that stronger Business Associations, formal SBR and comprehensive institutional reform are needed for fostering Innovation in the MENA region. Even if Cronyism and crony-based informal SBR seem to provide a functional allocative mechanism counteracting some institutional deficiencies, yet, Cronyism do more harm than good to Innovation. Hence, institutional reform in the MENA region should also place more emphasis on eradicating Cronyism.

Swearing in Irish English – A corpus-based quantitative analysis of the sociolinguistics of swearing

This study analyzes the effect of sociolinguistic variables on the frequency of swear words in Irish English based on the private dialogue section of the Irish component of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The results of mixed-effects regression models show that speakers between 19 and 33 are substantially more likely to use swear words compared with speakers aged 34 and older. With respect to gender, the results confirm a significant gender difference as men are significantly more likely to use swear words compared with women. Furthermore, speakers from the Republic of Ireland, i.e. speakers of Southern Irish English, are significantly less likely to use swear words compared with speakers from Northern Ireland. Finally, speakers are more likely to use swear words in same-gender conversations compared with mixed-gender conversation irrespective of gender.

The Perceptions and Attitudes of Undergraduate Healthcare Sciences Students of Feedback: A Qualitative Study

PurposeRegardless of the importance of feedback, many students are dissatisfied with the feedback they receive. This study was conducted to evaluate undergraduate healthcare sciences students' perceptions and attitudes toward, and their lived experiences of feedback MethodsTo evaluate undergraduate healthcare sciences students' perceptions and attitudes toward feedback using a descriptive approach. A Phenomenological qualitative study. Healthcare sciences students were invited to participate in semi-structured focus groups interviews; open-ended questions were developed per the study objectives and the knowledge deficit to guide the discussion. ResultsFive major themes were apparent during the discussion regarding the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare sciences students towards feedback. Students highly regard honest and continuous feedback before grading or final assessment. Students preferred receiving feedback as a private dialogue that contains balanced positive comments and points for improvements. Comparing student performance with others or providing subjective and unspecific feedback were the most common reasons for students to disregard feedback. The value of the level of faculty or years of experience was controversial among students. Limited time, poor communication skills and unavailability of a faculty member were perceived as major barriers for constructive feedback. Students recommended both peer feedback and mutual feedback between students and faculty members to be applied continuously. ConclusionThis study demonstrates that healthcare sciences students need continuous constructive feedback. Providing mutual and peer feedback as a dialogue considering balanced positive comments and points for improvement should be implemented during the educational process. Training for both faculty members and students is highly recommended.

Taming cronyism!: the role of Public Private Dialogues

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of Public Private Dialogues (PPD) on cronyism accounting for various cultural and governance institutions.Design/methodology/approachIt proposes a number of hypotheses on: whether PPD characterized by high official representation and business representation, through mainly building trust, succeed in minimizing cronyism; whether certain cultural and governance institutions help PPD in achieving this; and in cultural settings which are originally inducing cronyism whether PPD help in minimizing cronyism. These are tested empirically using an ordinary least squares multivariate panel regression.FindingsHigh official representation and high business people’s participation in PPD were found to help in minimizing cronyism in different cultures. This is arguably attributed to building trust in cultures characterized by having low general trust and low trust in governments. Accountability and transparency are significantly assisting PPD in this regard. Yet, PPD do not always succeed in taming cronyism, and in particular in ethnic fractionalized societies and societies having high collective cultures.Research limitations/implicationsThe biggest challenge this research faced was estimating a proxy for PPD. Better data on business associations’ participation worldwide are needed to construct a more developed proxy.Practical implicationsPPD with high business participation and government representation should be encouraged. The same is true for reform leading to higher levels of transparency and accountability.Originality/valueConstructing a proxy for PPD that allowed meta-analysis; and investigating theoretically and empirically the effect of the interaction of PPD with various institutions on cronyism.

Tax Administrative Burdens in the Tourism Sector in Zanzibar: Stakeholders’ Perspectives

The shortage of literature regarding the tax administration burden, particularly in the hospitality and tourism sector in the context of least developed countries, still exists. This study, therefore, investigates the tax administration burden in the tourism sector in the Zanzibar Islands. It specifically examines the structure of tourism taxes and the fiscal regime, measures the uncertainty and complexity of tax laws, and assesses the role played by business associations in facilitating collective action to reform the business environment of the tourism sector in this Archipelago. The study involved a survey of stakeholders ( N = 135), including tourism investors, business associations, and relevant government agencies. The findings showed that uncertainty concerning the value added tax laws centered on calculation of the input tax, the input tax refund from mainland Tanzania, and the registration procedure. The confusion was also pronounced regarding the specific laws affecting tour operators, restaurants, and the hotel levy. Similarly, there is still uncertainty concerning the infrastructure tax and the imposition of a tax of US$1 per day per guest staying in a hotel. Moreover, uncertainty and complexity regarding the income tax laws is centered on calculating the income tax liability of businesses, investments, and employment. However, the role of business associations in reforming the business environment for tourism has been encouraging, as a good number of public–private dialogues and initiatives have been geared at negotiating the various forms of taxes and levies imposed on tourism and hospitality services in the Archipelago. The study concludes with managerial, policy, and research recommendations.

Knocking at the Boardroom Door: A Transatlantic Overview of Director-Institutional Investor Engagement in Law and Practice

Under the current context of (re)concentrated ownership, institutional shareholders are expected to play a more active role in corporate settings in making managers more accountable and urging them to favour a long-term view. Calls from institutional investors for engagement with the board have grown and private dialogue with directors is now an important instrument of institutional investor activism. In spite of this favourable trend, director-shareholder dialogue is still problematic. Public disclosure and insider trading rules set legal constraints on board-shareholder engagement. However, the reach of these constraints should not be overstated, as they do not appear to ban outright all private dialogue between directors and shareholders. In this regard, recommendations within corporate governance and stewardship codes, and from practitioners, have played a major role in developing a practical framework for director-shareholder dialogue that seeks to prevent the violation of insider trading and public disclosure rules, and to make dialogue more effective. Against this backdrop, this article will provide a comparative transatlantic overview of recent developments in the area of director-institutional shareholder dialogue in the US and in Europe with the aim of assessing the effective reach of legal constraints on board-shareholder dialogue under current legislation, and considering some practical solutions offered by corporate governance and stewardship codes that could facilitate board-shareholder engagement and enhance its effectiveness.

The dialogue and advocacy initiatives for reforming the business environment of the tourism and hospitality sector in Tanzania

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the nature of the public–private dialogue (PPD) initiatives and how PPDs are being used in the tourism and hospitality sector as the tool for reforming the business environment (e.g. set policy priorities, inform policy design, improve legislative proposals and incorporate feedback into regulatory implementation).Design/methodology/approachThe study adapted a descriptive-qualitative method through desk research and in-depth interviews based on the explorative research design. The respondents included tourism and hospitality stakeholders from the public and private sectors in the Arusha, Kilimanjaro and Dar es Salaam tourist destinations in Tanzania.FindingsThe findings revealed numerous PPD initiatives which various actors in the tourism value chain rely on to address their matters. While some initiatives are not regular forums, few have been institutionalized in the Tourism Act of 2008, while others have been prescribed from the global level (UNWTO). The well-known PPD platforms include the Tourism Facilitation Committee, Technical Advisory Committee to the Minister, Tanzania National Business Council (the Tourism Task Force) and Public–Private Partnership in Tourism under the Ministry. However, most of the existing platforms overlap in terms of subject matter, mandates, participants and timing. The key success stories and factors of the PPD initiatives and the associated challenges have been discussed.Practical implicationsThe study provides insight to the conclusion that public policies that are designed through PPD are better conceived and more effectively implemented because they result from mutual understanding between government and the business community. This knowledge is important to the least developed countries (LDCs), like Tanzania, as research has shown that stronger and more constructive dialogue between government and the private sector leads to better business environment, and countries with better business environments grow faster, attract more investment and reduce poverty more than the opposite.Originality/valueAlthough several PPD initiatives are taking place in the tourism sector in most developing countries, little about them has been documented in the tourism literature. Hence, this study, which focuses on Tanzania, aims to fill this knowledge gap.