Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-06-30T14:11:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 taniareginaborgesesilva.pdf: 1590453 bytes, checksum: a334f44ee214838be1318b083c6ef1bc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-13T15:57:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 taniareginaborgesesilva.pdf: 1590453 bytes, checksum: a334f44ee214838be1318b083c6ef1bc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-13T15:57:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 taniareginaborgesesilva.pdf: 1590453 bytes, checksum: a334f44ee214838be1318b083c6ef1bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-07-23 / A gestão educacional e as alianças valorativas são os temas deste Plano de Ação Educacional. Sendo assim, ele pretende explicar o ótimo desempenho do Colégio Estadual Barão de Aiuruoca que está situado na Cidade de Barra Mansa, Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Ele foi escolhido por ter sido vencedor do Prêmio Nacional de Referência em Gestão em 2010, referência 2009, e por ter conseguido atingir a sua meta no IDEB. A metodologia e os teóricos que embasaram o trabalho forneceram meios necessários para confirmar a hipótese de que os resultados alcançados são avanços advindos do modelo de gestão democrático participativo, empreendedor e das alianças desenvolvidas com parceiros externos, inclusive empresas. Pretendese, dessa forma, aprofundar o estudo das práticas institucionais que produzem o sucesso escolar. Desta maneira, justifica-se a proposta deste Plano de Ação Educacional de promover a formação para os gestores do Médio Paraíba como uma estratégia de disseminação de boas práticas. / The educational administration and partnerships are the themes of this Plan of Educational Action. Therefore, it intends to explain the excellent performance of the Colégio Estadual Barão de Aiuruoca which is situated in the city of Barra Mansa, State of Rio de Janeiro. It was chosen because it won the National Award for Excellence in Management in 2010, reference 2009, and was able to reach its goal in IDEB. The methodology and theorists, that supported this work, provided the necessary means to confirm the hypothesis that the reached results are the advances arising from the democratic, participatory, enterprising, management model and from the partnerships. The aim is thus to deepen the study of institutional practices that promote school success. So the purpose of this Plan of Educational Action is justified to provide training for managers in the Médio Paraíba region as a strategy for spreading good practices.

Orientador: Luiz Carlos de Freitas / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T21:00:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amaral_MariaClaraEde_D.pdf: 4551720 bytes, checksum: 20e74f515381a6232cc5b9fb8d8cdfc8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar a implementação de duas parcerias público-privado entre a Secretaria de Estado de Educação de Mato Grosso e as seguintes entidades: Fundação CESGRANRIO, no ano de 2006, e o Instituto Ayrton Senna, entre 2007 e 2008. Dentre os referenciais teóricos selecionados para análise, destacam-se autores que tratam da reconfiguração do papel do Estado a partir da década de 1990, da diminuição de sua atuação no campo educacional, de organizações do Terceiro Setor em substituição ao papel do Estado e de parcerias público-privado na área educacional. Além disso, utilizamos os conceitos de neoliberalismo e de Terceira Via, qualidade social e suas relações com a Avaliação em Larga Escala e o IDEB. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo, cujos instrumentos de coleta de dados constaram de entrevistas individuais, grupos focais e análise dos dados do SAEB/Prova Brasil e IDEB, utilizando-se para análise e organização dos dados, a partir da triangulação de métodos de coleta, a análise de conteúdo. Este estudo teve como campo de investigação os municípios de Cáceres/MT e Cuiabá/MT e compõe-se de três diferentes instâncias da rede: a) a Secretaria de Estado de Educação - SEDUC; b) os CEFAPROs dos polos de Cáceres e Cuiabá; c) as escolas da rede nos dois municípios sede que estiveram envolvidas nas parcerias. Os resultados apontam as contradições que envolvem a relação público-privado na implementação de políticas públicas, sinalizando para seu aspecto dinâmico e intricado; a falta de transparência na contratação das parcerias; a forte precarização e intensificação do trabalho docente, em especial na parceria com o IAS. Por fim, a análise dos dados da Avaliação Nacional mostrou que não podemos afirmar com convicção que as parcerias por si só elevaram a proficiência e os índices do IDEB / Abstract: This study aims at analyzing the implementation of two public-private partnerships between the Department of Education of the State of Mato Grosso and the following agencies: CESGRANRIO Foundation in 2006 and Ayrton Senna Institute (IAS) in 2007 and 2008. As theoretical references selected to support the analysis, the study has relied on authors that have addressed the reconfiguration of the role of the State from the 1990s, its decreased action in the educational field, the replacement of the State with Third Sector organizations, and public-private partnerships in the educational area. In addition, we have used the concepts of neoliberalism, Third Way, social quality and their relations with the Large-Scale Evaluation and IDEB. This is a qualitative research whose instruments for data collection included individual interviews, focus groups and analysis of data from SAEB/Prova Brasil and IDEB, with the use of content analysis for data analysis and organization with a triangulation of collection methods. The study was carried out in the cities of Caceres/MT and Cuiaba/MT and involved three different network points: a) the State Department of Education - SEDUC; b) CEFAPROS of Caceres and Cuiaba; c) the schools engaged in partnerships in both cities. The results have pointed out contradictions in the public-private relationship along the implementation of public policies, thus signaling their dynamic and intricate features; the lack of transparency in partnership agreements; the strong precarization and intensification of teacher work, particularly in the partnerships with IAS. Finally, the analysis of data from the National Evaluation has shown that it is not possible to firmly state that partnerships alone have increased proficiency and IDEB indexes / Doutorado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Doutora em Educação

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Since the advent of South Africa's democracy in 1994 there have been several changes in the policy and legislative arena specifically promoting public-private-partnerships in the health sector. These initiatives have given rise to opportunities for inter-sectoral policy transfer under the rubric of ―best practices‖. This exploratory study examines the character, obstacles and contested nature of a selection of policy transfers between private and public health institutions in a single province of South Africa. The study looks at the dynamics at play around envisaged, current and past transfers of policies and organisational practices in relation to administrative systems and technologies used in four different hospital settings – two public and two private hospitals in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. This thesis explores the views of managers and labour organisations about policy transfer focusing on local contexts, and how various parties construct policy transfer, hence providing a perspective of policy at the ―plant‖ level. In this research, special focus is placed on different agents' role and understandings of their contexts and how and why policies move and contradictions of these developments. In-depth interviews were conducted at four major Eastern Cape hospitals. The thesis argues that in practice, policy transfer is messy, politicized and traversed by power and vested interests and that organised labour plays a key role in policy transfer process. The thesis focuses on the different philosophical/ideological underpinnings, socio-political values and operational environments in each sector. This study is designed to contribute to existing knowledge on practices particularly between the public and private sectors in order to widen the understanding of the complexity of transferability.

This dissertation serves as a contribution to the larger ongoing debate on the role of religion in development in an effort to move beyond an instrumental approach. The aim is to study the role of religious agents in development through the prism of contractual partnerships between church organisations and the Tanzanian state in healthcare delivery. Three Christian denominations are included in the study: the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania (Tanzania Episcopal Conference), the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and the Free Pentecostal Church of Tanzania. Three theoretical perspectives are applied to the study of religion and development: (1) an instrumental perspective; (2) a bottom-up perspective and (3) an integral perspective. In order to operationalise the three theoretical perspectives to function adequately for health sector development research, three analytical concepts are included in the framework, namely resource dependency, linking social capital and intangible religious health assets. The methodology is based on an abductive qualitative approach with the use of case studies on the three church organisations (Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal). Three key methods have been used for collecting data: policy analysis, semi-structured interviews and participant observation. Each organisation is analysed in terms of their Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreements and collaborative models, their relation towards the state, their internal health policies and their motives for delivering health services. Moreover, by including one local hospital per organisation (Turiani, Selian and Mchukwi), it is also possible to integrate the local implementation level into the study. In order to capture the views of public authorities, interviewees from the national Ministry of Health and local Council Health Management Teams have also been included. By entering into PPP health agreements, church organisations have moved to centre stage and gained more influence following the latest political and economic reforms. Their attraction as service providers follows from their existing infrastructure and previous experience and capacity in the health sector. The analysis shows that faith is a key motivator and a central factor in the running of church health services. However, the fact that church organisations are becoming increasingly dependent on the state has implications in terms of their role as a critical voice in the public debate and could potentially threaten their independence as faith-driven civil society actors. Church organisations are also becoming more vulnerable financially, as they are not compensated according to the PPP contracts. The current situation where church organisations are dominating the PPPs in health has implications on both the Tanzanian model of secularism, with its emphasis on Muslim and Christians being treated equally, and the local governments’ strive towards national ownership with their favouring of public healthcare over private alternatives. It is therefore necessary to further study the role of religion beyond an instrumental approach in order to get a deeper understanding of the religious dynamics in the PPPs in health in Tanzania. / The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy

Magister Legum - LLM

This dissertation focuses on the findings of a multi-case study centered around two public-private partnership (P3s) projects in Ontario: the Royal Ottawa Hospital and the Brampton Civic Hospital. Partnerships have become particularly important as a part of infrastructure procurement for all levels of government in Canada. While infrastructure public-private partnerships have grown in popularity, they remain a controversial means of procuring public assets. Considerable questions remain as to whether the mechanisms related to partnerships with the private sector represent a sufficient response to the challenges facing health care systems. As such, major avenues exist for contributions in the form of evidence-based examinations to the field of knowledge pertaining to hospital procurement. A body of research literature and review of public-private partnerships, including those with a particular focus on health-sector projects in Canada, has grown over the past two decades. This study contributes an analysis of the relationship between public and private partners to that literature, utilizing a conceptual lens developed out of complex evolutionary systems theory. The study is intended to examine the capacity of public managers entering into a public-private partnership arrangement to successfully activate agents and utilize the skill and knowledge of these agents, conduct joint fact finding and consensus building, and better understand how they have arranged and organized joint interactions between the public and private sector. The two case studies demonstrate the key inputs into the decision-making processes for what were formative health infrastructure partnership projects in Ontario, providing an assessment of the degree to which the government of Ontario was successful in managing a cooperative decision-making process that stressed inclusion and horizontal steering. Results find that public managers struggled in some ways to leverage an effective horizontal management style and engage in smart interventions to utilize expert knowledge to address knowledge gaps, contributing to stagnating negotiations and driving up transaction costs for the projects. Some noteworthy successes were experienced in the case of the Royal Ottawa Hospital in leveraging private-sector knowledge to develop performance metrics, and the approach to stakeholder engagement in this case presents positive lessons-learned for future P3 infrastructure projects.

This thesis deals with economic impacts of the application of the Public-Private Partnerships in the Czech Republic. Public-Private Partnerships are the newest form of the cooperation between public and private sector in delivering of public goods. The theoretic part of the thesis comes close to the fundamental aspects of the Public private partnerships and their characteristics, to the reasons of participation of the subjects in the projects, to the forms of Public-Private Partnerships, their phases and to the differences between government contracts and Public-Private Partnerships. The second chapter deals with the legislation of the Public-Private Partnerships in the European Union, Czech Republic and chosen countries. The analytic part of the thesis deals with economic aspects of the Public-Private Partnerships, their advantages, disadvantages, benefits and potential risks. The aim of the thesis is to discuss presented advantages and disadvantages of the Public Private Partnerships and its possible impacts of the application in the Czech Republic.

School finance is the topic of numerous research studies; printed in newspapers and magazines, heard on the radio and television, and frequently spoken among educators throughout the nation. Anyone dealing with education is searching for methods of obtaining additional funds for projects and supplies; and even adding money directly to school districts' budgets. To better understand the importance of searching for additional funds to supplement the annual school districts' budgets, this study examines four sources for obtaining financial assistance: partnerships, fundraising, foundations, and local source venues. Participants include 10 school districts in the state of Texas having only a single high school campus; five Chapter 41 school districts and five Chapter 42 school districts. Two school districts are selected from each classification level: A, AA, AAA, AAAA, and AAAAA. One Chapter 41 (wealthy) district will be compared with one Chapter 42 (poor) school district within the same classification level. The five selected Chapter 41 school districts are above the equalized wealth limit of $305,000 per weighted average daily attendance. Data gathering procedures utilize a purposive case study by interviewing administrators in each of the school districts; studying Texas Education Agency's School Report Card, each school district's Actual Financial Data Report; sending a survey to a district administrator within each school district; gathering data from the directors of partners-in-education or adopt-a-school programs; reviewing financial records from booster clubs and education foundations; and studying financial audits for each of the school districts. This study looks at the dependency on outside financial assistance to further educational endeavors, whether they are for enrichment purposes or for extended educational pursuits. The study examines how each school district utilizes some combination of supplements to obtain additional funds for their annual budgets, whether the district is classified as Chapter 41 or 42. Using the actual financial data records for each school district, per-pupil revenue is determined. Not all school districts have access to education foundations, and not all school districts rely on business partners in education. Yet, all school districts receive assistance from local parent-teacher organizations and booster clubs and allow fundraising efforts among the various campuses. All school districts have access to local support venues, even though some are quite limited. Overall, these four areas of obtaining additional funds make only a small percentage of impact upon the majority of the school district's budgets. Yet, some of the school districts are impacted by these revenue sources as much as the percentage of federal aid received.

The focus of this study is to critically analyse the legislative framework for private and public private zonemodels in Zambia. The analysisis against the background of Zambia’scommitment to promote private sector development and the initiative to use the investmentpolicy tool of special economic zones (SEZs). The analysis is based on the salient provisions of Zambia’s Development Agency Act and Public Private Partnerships Act which regulate SEZs and public private partnerships respectively.. The main question sought to be addressed is the efficacy of the legislative framework for private and public private model zones, taking into account accommodation of private sector participation and nature of the investment and business environment. In addressing this question this study will analyse the salient provisions of the aforementioned laws showing how private sector actors are accommodated in the development and operation of the zones.The provisions under the aforementioned laws are to an extent analysed in conjunction with some of Zambia’s international trade and investment obligations such as the World Trade organisation Trade Related Investment Measures. An examination of how the incentives in SEZs are used is also provided as well as some lessons from Ghana, Mauritius and identified international best practices The main findings of the study include the following:  In so far as admission of investors to develop and operate SEZs is concerned the legislative framework does not generally discriminate between local and foreign investors and that admission through PPPs accommodates various kinds of well-known PPPs, even allowing prospective investors to kick start projects through submission of unsolicited proposals;  The need for Zambia’s SEZ policy to continuously evolve and diversify by undergoing relevant changes and improvements so that it remains relevant and adapts to the evolving nature of market availability and needs of SEZs whilst leveraging on Zambia’s comparative advantages;  The interplay between SEZs and Zambia’s international obligations present challenges and opportunities and thus revealing cause for the better appreciation of opportunities and complexities of SEZ policies and consequence of Zambia’s membership in more than one regional arrangement Need to periodically review the incentive structure so that Zambia does not inadvertently loss revenue through incentives that do not necessarily prove useful to investors or yield the intended benefits for the country. Based on the foregoing findings, among others,this study concludes that factors relating to the establishment of SEZs in Zambia incorporate private sector participation through the lifecycle of SEZs, that is to say from the time the investment is sought to be made to when it is becomes operationalmaking significant stride towards achieving openness to private sector participation through private and public private zone models. Against the foregoing findings and conclusion this study recommends,interalia, forcontinuous and timely observation and assessment of the shifts in use of SEZ policies vis-à-vis changes in the macroeconomic conditions in whichthe SEZ policy is to be implemented and investor market availability. The rationale of the recommendation is so that any necessary review of the Zambian SEZ policy and pursuit of enhanced private sector development is done from an informed position. / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2015 / Centre for Human Rights / LLM / Unrestricted

O presente trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa bibliográfica na qual as formas de conservação da natureza são questionadas. Diversas alternativas de manejo dos recursos naturais com a participação comunitária são apontadas principalmente através da formatação de parcerias junto à sociedade civil organizada na forma de Organizações Não –Governamentais representativas. Buscou-se exemplos concretos de Unidades de Conservação brasileiras, no caso Amazônicas, onde, de diferentes formas, as parcerias e o manejo participativo têm sido implementados com relativo sucesso para se repensar, entre outros, a necessidade futura da criação das Unidades de Conservação ou o formato mais adequado de se conseguir de fato a conservação da biodiversidade e também da sociodiversidade. Muitas alternativas diferentes são apresentadas na tentativa de se responder ao cada vez mais ampliado discurso preservacionista, através do qual as populações tradicionais são privadas dos seus direitos seculares sobre seus espaços, suas tradições, ao mesmo tempo que os recursos naturais estão sendo gradativamente dizimados, sendo o desmatamento um exemplo do paradoxo que vive a nossa política e prática conservacionista. Busca-se também demonstrar que, se não for bem formatada, a participação das comunidades poderá, ao contrário do que se postula, ser manipulada em prol da desagregação dos seus objetivos e a desarticulação do tão questionado movimento ambientalista. Conceitos como democracia, participação, cidadania, sociedade civil, parcerias entre outros são repensados em uma tentativa de se ampliar o debate a respeito da apropriação dos bens comuns sob o enfoque desenvolvimentista. / This dissertation is the product of a bibliographical research in which the nature conservation forms are questioned. Many alternatives of natural resources management with communitary participation are shown specially as partnerships with the organized civil society in the form of representative Non-Governmental Organizations. Concrete examples of Brazilian Conservation Areas in the Amazon region, where, in different ways, partnerships and participatory management have been implemented with satisfactory success, are displayed in order to rethink, among other things, the future needs of Conservation Areas creation or the most appropriate form of really achieving biodiversity and sociodiversity conservation. Many different alternatives are presented in an attempt of responding to the always broader preservationist speech through which traditional populations are deprived of ancient rights they hold over their spaces and traditions, while natural resources are being gradually extinguished, being deforestation an example of the paradox of our conservationist policy and actions. There is also the intention of showing that if not well established, community participation can, differently from what is said, be manipulated in favor of the dissociation of its goals and disarticulation of the so questioned environmentalist movement. Concepts like democracy, participation, citizenship, civil society, partnerships, among others are questioned in an attempt of broadening the debate on the common properties appropriation, under the scope of development.