Improving Strategies of the Private Sector Participation in Water Sector Projects: A Case Study in Ministry of Energy (Iran)

Construction industry projects impose some unsought constraints on employers to manage and define new projects including investment risk, performance variation and diversity of the project. Annually, a significant part of the governmental budget is being spent to execute water and wastewater projects in Iran. However, further projects are on demand to develop the country. The aim of this study is to develop the courses of action to attract private partnership into the projects defined and executed in the Water Sector of the Iranian Ministry of Energy. To determine the criteria and implementing the proposed strategies, SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) method was used as a powerful tool for understanding the context of the organization. To understand the importance of the criteria, we weighted them; then the extracted strategies from SWOT matrix (ANP method) were prioritized and divided into short-and long-term range in terms of the performance and capabilities. According to the results, SO strategies have more weight than the other strategies. Therefore, regarding the nature of strategies, the opportunities should be completely used through reinforcing the strengths and short-and long-term period planning.