Utility privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of water

Bayliss, Kate

doi:10.1017/s0022278x03004415

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“…Privatisation of public utilities, however, has had dismal impacts on urban sewerage provision, accounting for a very small market segment (Bayliss, 2003;Budds & McGranahan, 2003;Kariuki & Schartz, 2005;McGranahan & Satterthwaite, 2006). Private sector, moreover, has been selective and inclined towards large-scale networks that combine water and sewerage, large cities, large economies and large middle-class being 'cherry-picked' .…”

Section: Private Utility Provisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Calls for private provision of water and sanitary services seems to be a mirage and a strategy to dismantle or reduce the public sector in delivery of essential public services, but it has failed as investments in water and sanitary infrastructures are still coming from the public sector and account for about 90% even during the height of privatisation (Castro, 2008). Having been the main proponents and drivers of private utility provision until recently, the World Bank has acknowledged that multinational private monopolies are neither investors nor developers, but profiteers (Bayliss, 2003;Castro, 2008). Therefore, revamping of public provision coupled with alternative provision arrangements to supplements each other is imperative.…”

Section: Private Utility Provisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing sanitary mixtures in East African cities

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Letema¹

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“…7,20,21 The story is not much different with utilities managed under concession contracts in South Africa (Dolphin Coast and Nelspruit) where the PPP contracts were distressed mainly because the private company was not investing enough funds for improving service quality. 7,14 In general, PPPs have the potential to improve some aspects of performance. The private sector's technical and managerial competences, combined with sustainable pricing policies and better financial discipline, would enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of service provision.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…3% of global investment funding for PPPs between 1991 and 2006), these developments are not surprising given the misplaced expectations in SSA that PPPs will bring the much-needed investment financing for infrastructure expansion. 7,13,14 The following section analyses the general performance of water utilities in SSA that have been managed under PPPs.…”

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Public–private delivery of urban water services in Africa

Kayaga

2008

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management,

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The period between 1990 and 1997 saw a record growth in the number of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for provision of water/sewerage services in developing countries. Nonetheless, PPPs have not fared well in sub-Saharan Africa, which accounted for 80% of the PPP contracts that attracted disputes or were cancelled between 1990 and 2004. Since the 1980s, management contracts between international water operators and utilities in Africa have been promoted by the World Bank and other multi-international agencies as a model that could boost management capacity in utilities of developing countries and lead to improved effectiveness and efficiency. The present study draws upon empirical data from Kampala, Uganda and uses it as a case study to show that, on the whole, these expectations were not fulfilled. It is demonstrated that the performance improvements of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation, the utility in Kampala, were not as high as expected when it was twice managed by different international operators. On the other hand, the corporation has made impressive performance improvements under the current public management model. Conclusions have been drawn from the case study on what are the drivers of performance improvement in the water utilities of developing countries.

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“…In developing countries donors and multi-lateral agencies, working in partnership with often poorly-capacitated states, have provided both the finance and the underlying ideology. Witness for example how the World Bank championed privatization of water services and leaned on many governments, starting in West Africa, to adopt the same philosophy in the 1990s (World Bank, 2003), an experiment that turned out to be largely disappointing (Bayliss, 2003;Prasad, 2006). Decentralisation, with its promise of involving local people in water supply, which resonated with democratization of society, found expression in participatory approaches often presented as a proxies of social action.…”

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Emerging Forms of Social Action in Urban Domestic Water Supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Manzungu¹,

Jonker²,

Madaka³

et al. 2013

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This paper compares and contrasts emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both countries represent transitional societies that are facing challenges of providing clean and safe domestic water to the black majority population, which for decades was denied basic social services because of a racist ideology. In the first instance the paper assesses whether there exists a constitutional provision that guarantees the right to water. It then turns to how that is enforced, and what happens in its absence. Lastly the paper examines whether the various interventions lead to improved access to safe water. In South Africa an awareness of the constitutional right to water backed by a supportive legislative framework, which engendered a strong sense of entitlement, caused residents to resort to the courts and direct action such as street protests. Similar initiatives were also observed in Zimbabwe. However, the absence of a conducive legal environment, and disenchantment with the state as a provider of social services, led residents to resort to self reliance in order to access water. In both countries social action was not organic -it tended to be championed if not sponsored either by civil society or party political actors. There was no evidence of improved access to safe water as a consequence of social action. The paper concludes that social action in the urban domestic water supply faces the common challenges of social mobilization in particular and social movements in general.

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Utility privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of water

Cited by 63 publications

References 7 publications

Assessing sanitary mixtures in East African cities

Assessing sanitary mixtures in East African cities

Public–private delivery of urban water services in Africa

Emerging Forms of Social Action in Urban Domestic Water Supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe

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