This study focuses upon the new societal objects that are termed public private partnerships where the public sector forms strategic alliances with the private sector and the civil society to manage the wicked issues of today. An exampel of such cooperation is Vänerhamn AB where the municipalities around the lake of Vänern and the private shipping companies got togheter to handle an economic crisis of the shipping buisiness. The partnership Vänerhamn has developed from a problematic activity to a healthy company and the aim of this thesis is to illuminate this development through an historical institutional approach, focusing critical juncture to discover if the governance theory can be used to understand the partnerships positive process.   This will be done through research questions about the organisation of the partnership, about the members interests with the partnership and about eventually coordination problems in the partnership. The questions derive from dimensions in governance theory, central for the activity of partnerships. Interviews with central informants where held and it was complemented through a document analyses in order to search for indications of the dimensions and that is the methodological approach of the study.   The conclusion of this thesis is that the governance theory can be used to understand Vänerhamns postive development since the members interest with the partnership to a begining was not at all conformed and that led to obvious coordination problems. With more conformed interests the coordination problems were almost absent and the partnership made success. In this case the organisation of the partnership did not matter as it was a registered company during the whole time. The central sapiency of the thesis is that the public sector has to learn more about the private sector and vice versa.

Masters in Public Administration - MPA / Greater capacity for cities to be disaster resilient is needed. Public-private partnership enhances municipal capacity. This study therefore, interrogates the relationship between the City of Cape Town and its disaster relief partners. It is mainly concerned with policy implementation, and as such, investigates disaster management policy implementation in relation to public-private partnerships. The objectivesof the study were to provide a conceptual framework that defines the terms eminent in the practice and study of disaster management, particularly those that characterize public-private partnerships in the City of Cape Town; to explore the legislative mandate that makes provisions for disaster management and the funding of public-private partnerships in municipalities; to document the current practice of public-private partnerships in the City of Cape Town; to highlight noted challenges in the partnership and where necessary, recommend alternative policy implementation options for enhanced partnership sustainable capacity for disaster relief. The researcher deemed it expedient to utilize the qualitative method for the purposes of the adeptness it affords in expediting malleable, arduous investigation in engaging with the phenomena that “unfold[s] in real-world situations.” As far as the findings of this study are concerned, the public-private partnership of the City of Cape Town with its disaster relief partners is a successful one. It is effective in bringing the much needed awareness and relief to devastated communities. There are four main challenges that impact on this disaster relief partnership have been realized by this study. These namely are the delays in the reimbursement process, the constant change of government personnel dealing with relief partners, absence of a disaster relief official on the sites of distress and unsubsidized expenses incurred by the relief partners. Having realized these challenges, the study makes policy implementation recommendations.

Orientador: Theresa Maria de Freitas Adrião / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T11:01:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_InajaraIanada_M.pdf: 9090279 bytes, checksum: 6e728611e0ba59495381b4f22c972000 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta dissertação teve como objetivo central analisar as consequências para a gestão escolar da utilização do Sistema de Gestão Integrado (SGI) na rede municipal de ensino fundamental de Alecrim/SP. O SGI é uma tecnologia de gestão idealizada pela Fundação Pitágoras que foi implantada no município por meio de uma parceria entre esta fundação e a prefeitura municipal em 2006. Este estudo de caso investigou as esferas envolvidas na parceria utilizando-se de entrevistas semiestruturadas com representantes de equipes gestoras das unidades escolares municipais de ensino fundamental e da instituição privada em questão. Foi possível observar que os dirigentes escolares utilizaram-se das técnicas do SGI, entretanto, a frequência e as formas de utilização foram diferentes em cada unidade escolar. Neste trabalho, teve importância singular, a descrição detalhada do SGI adotado pela Fundação Pitágoras que encontra suas raízes na Gestão de Qualidade Total, modelo de gestão que teve seu auge na educação brasileira na década de 1990. / Abstract: This thesis aimed to examine the consequences to the school management of the use of the Integrated Management System (IMS) in the municipal primary school of Alecrim / SP. The SGI is a management technology designed by Pitágoras Foundation which was established in the city through a partnership between this foundation and the municipal government in 2006. This case study aims to investigate the spheres involved in the partnership using semi-structured interviews with school management representatives of the municipal school units and private institution in question. This case study. It was observed that the school leaders have used the techniques of SGI, however, the frequency and the shapes of this uses were different at each school. It is also of singular importance to this work a detailed description of the SGI adopted by Pitágoras Foundation that finds its roots in Total Quality Management, a management model that had its heyday in Brazilian education in the 1990s. / Mestrado / Politicas, Administração e Sistemas Educacionais / Mestra em Educação

The last two decades have witnessed a rapid development of various forms of Public-Private Partnerships in Europe. Transport belongs to sectors where PPPs have been most visible and transformative. Yet not all countries have embraced the new method in the same manner. As some initial studies indicate, their PPP readiness varies quite significantly. At the same time, PPP as a product of New Public Management appeared to be in ideological conflict with several new competing paradigms in the field of public policy and public administration. So far, however, no single study has shown how these compatibility issues are dealt with in practice and how (un)successful in reality the European countries are at implementing transport PPPs. This is mostly due to difficulties in formulating appropriate and comparable evaluation criteria. At the same time, with many projects it was simply a bit too early to say whether the original expectations had been met. This study uses a negative definition of PPP success and establishes the failure rate for each country from the sample. In doing so, it only takes into account projects that were abandoned or seriously distressed and modified in advance stages of the procurement process. As a result, transport PPP failure rates of selected European countries are compared. At...

Alors qu'en France, la volonté de mieux prendre en compte la variabilité et la multiplicité des situations locales a conduit au développement de programmes contractuels entre l'État et les collectivités locales, dans des champs aussi variés que l'éducation, l'action sociale, le logement, l'insertion, la santé, la sécurité. Dans les pays africains, où tout est à refaire, c'est le statut quo administratif et politique. Les politiques publiques sont décidées et mises en œuvre par l'État central. La politique de décentralisation fut enclenchée dans les années 90 suite à l'émergence de la démocratie dans la plupart des pays africains.Au Mali, les premières lois de décentralisation furent adoptées en 1993. Face aux déséquilibres territoriaux qui pénalisent leur régime de croissance et donc la création d'emploi, les pays africains sont de nos jours progressivement conduits à faire évoluer leurs modes de gouvernance. Le modèle actuel d'organisation territoriale et de planification centralisée de l'espace semble non seulement inefficace mais, également inadapté aux réalités économiques et sociales. L'État central est à lui seul en incapacité d'assurer un meilleur équilibre territorial, de réguler la croissance urbaine, de conduire et d'impulser des démarches stratégiques pour lutter contre la fracture territoriale. La territorialisation des politiques publiques passe forcément par une politique de décentralisation courageuse visant à conférer aux échelons territoriaux locaux des pouvoirs étendus de planification et d'aménagement de leur territoire.Après 20 ans de décentralisation au Mali, une réforme approfondie s'avère indispensable. Une réforme qui mettrait les collectivités territoriales au cœur des politiques de développement et de lutte contre les déséquilibres territoriaux. Les collectivités territoriales dotées de compétences étendues doivent pouvoir rendre l'action publique plus proche et plus efficace tout en l'adaptant à la diversité des territoires. Mais ces démarches stratégiques locales ne seront crédibles et efficaces, dans le contexte de ces pays, qu'à la condition d'être impulsées, accompagnées et encadrées par le niveau national tout en associant les décideurs publics locaux. C'est tout l'enjeu des politiques territoriales intégrées basées et construites sur des dynamiques d'acteurs locaux dans un système de gouvernance multi-niveaux qui est ici posé. / While in France, the desire to take better account of the variability and multiplicity of local situations has led to the development of contractual programmes between the State and local authorities, in fields as varied as education, social action, housing, integration, health and safety. In African countries, where everything has to be redone, it is the administrative and political status quo. Public policies are decided and implemented by the central state. The decentralization policy was initiated in the 1990s following the emergence of democracy in most African countries.In Mali, the first decentralization laws were adopted in 1993. Faced with territorial imbalances that penalize their growth regime and thus job creation, African countries are nowadays gradually being led to change their modes of governance. The current model of territorial organization and centralized spatial planning seems not only ineffective but also inadequate to economic and social realities. The central state alone is unable to ensure a better territorial balance, to regulate urban growth, to lead and promote strategic approaches to combat the territorial divide. The territorialisation of public policies necessarily requires a courageous decentralisation policy aimed at giving local territorial levels extensive powers to plan and develop their territory.After 20 years of decentralization in Mali, a thorough reform is essential. A reform that would put local and regional authorities at the heart of development policies and the fight against territorial imbalances. Local and regional authorities with extensive powers must be able to make public action closer and more effective while adapting it to the diversity of territories. But these local strategic approaches will only be credible and effective, in the context of these countries, if they are promoted, supported and supervised by the national level while involving local public decision-makers. The whole issue of integrated territorial policies based and built on the dynamics of local actors in a multi-level governance system is at stake here.

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to fill the existing gap in the literature connected to project strategywithin the Swedish fiber infrastructure regarding the subsidy program announced by the Post- andTelecom Authority. To fulfill the purpose and address the research area two research questions have beendeveloped: RQ1: How do private companies design their project strategy competing for subsidies? RQ2:In what way does the business environment affect the design of the project strategy? Method: The study has used a qualitative research method based on a single private incumbent firmwithin the fiber infrastructure industry in Sweden. The study is based on existing literature on the subjectand complemented with 22 interviews divided into three stages to secure the quality of the data collection.The data were analyzed through a thematic analysis, which laid the foundation for the study's findings. Findings: The section presents four stages that intend to increase understanding of the subsidy program'sproject strategy and the business environment. The findings resulted in four parts, the Post- and TelecomAuthority subsidy program, the project in relation to the business environment, a life-cycle of the project,and lastly, a conceptual framework of the project strategy. The project strategy consists of sixcomponents: sub-goals, project organization and structure, risk, cost calculation, knowledge ofcompetition, and competitive tender. The strategy needs to include these components to create acompetitive tender and achieve the project goals and objectives. However, the competitive businessenvironment and Post- and Telecom Authority rules and regulations limit how the strategy can bedesigned and operationalized. Theoretical and practical implications: The study agrees with prior literature, which presents thatproject strategy is vital for project success (Shenhar et al., 2007), and that risk is a highly prominentcomponent affecting the strategy (Carbonara et al., 2015). However, the study presents new perspectiveson project strategy within public private partnerships on the Swedish fiber infrastructure and whichcomponents are the most prominent in the specific project. For managers, the study contributes with aframework intended to help assess these crucial components affecting the project strategy within theexisting context. This is to guide and assist managers in designing a more efficient project strategy andmitigates the risks associated with the subsidy program. Limitations and future research: This study is limited to investigating the project strategy related to thesubsidy program issued by the Swedish Post- and Telecom Authority. Further, the study is only based onone case company that does not present a holistic view of the project strategy of all actors involved. Thisindicating future research should investigate other companies within the market and especially publicfiber net owners with different goals and targets.

The diploma thesis aims to examine and compare public sector structures involved in managing the deals under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP)/Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK and Spain as well as application of Public-Private-Citizen Collaboration (PC2) framework within the two systems in the era of post-New Public Management. The spread and use of knowledge and skills capacities and the overall ability of the national institutional models to protect the public interest in an effective and efficient way is assessed together with openness and transparency of PPP programmes using the Web 2.0 tools able to reach and engage citizens in the process of implementing the policy and procurement of individual schemes. Special attention is paid to the ways in which the private sector entities on the one side and citizens on the other can approach the public authorities and influence the shape and features of the partnership and its results. PPP has been widely used for financing of investments into the public infrastructure in many countries in Europe and elsewhere. Through PPP, private sector is invited to take care of financing, construction or modernization and subsequent maintenance of certain public assets over the life of the contract that usually lasts about 30 years. The programmes of...

El objetivo general de la presente tesis es optimizar los plazos de los entregables que conforman el expediente técnico, en la fase de formulación, enfocado en proyectos de Asociaciones Públicas Privadas que el Área de Estudios de Proyectos realiza. El presente trabajo se enfoca en mejorar los tiempos a través del uso de herramientas de gestión de procesos. Para la evaluación de casos se recopiló la información de 3 proyectos de iniciativa privada cofinanciadas del rubro de infraestructura en Perú que demandan varios años desde el planeamiento y programación hasta la ejecución contractual. Debido a ello se procederá a analizar cuantitativa y cualitativamente las causas raíz de la problemática. Luego, se definirá las herramientas de mejora para cada causa identificada, para el caso en estudio se propone la aplicación de herramientas de gestión. Finalmente, se validará la propuesta mediante el nivel de aceptación por juicio de expertos y se analizará los impactos positivos que pueda generar en los proyectos de iniciativa privada cofinanciada. / The general objective of this thesis is to optimize the deadlines of the deliverables that make up the technical file, in the formulation phase, focused on projects of Public Private Associations that the Project Studies Area carries out. This work focuses on improving times through the use of process management tools. For the evaluation of cases, information was collected from 3 co-financed private initiative projects in the infrastructure sector in Peru that require several years from planning and programming to contractual execution. Due to this, the root causes of the problem will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Then, the improvement tools will be defined for each identified cause, for the case under study the application of management tools is proposed. Finally, the proposal will be validated through the level of acceptance by expert judgment and the positive impacts that it may generate in co-financed private initiative projects will be analyzed. / Tesis

Infrastructure is one of the main parameters of economic growth and a country‘s competitiveness depends on the provision and maintenance of efficient and productive infrastructure assets. However, Nigeria, like most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest quantity and poorest quality of stocks of infrastructure assets in the world and this phenomenally poor infrastructure has remained an impediment to development in the country. Decades of sub-optimal investment, poor maintenance culture and the fact that the required infrastructure investments could not be accommodated within the available fiscal space as a result of budgetary constraints have all contributed to the Nigeria‘s infrastructure deficit. The immediate outcome of this however is that the available infrastructure assets across the Nigerian landscape are in decrepit state and absurdly inadequate. Besides, the present demand for basic infrastructure services has grown astronomically out-stripping the supply capacity of the existing ones. Closing the infrastructure financing gap will however require increased investment by private investors through creative financing in an enabling legal and financial environment. Outside the budgetary constraints, the absence of efficient maintenance and management of infrastructure assets and quality service delivery by the public sector are some of the reasons why procurement of public infrastructure stocks by government through the traditional approach is no longer plausible and hence, the general appeal of the public-private partnership framework. However, despite all the potentials, the public private partnership technique in Nigeria has not made an appreciable impact in closing the infrastructure gaps due to lack of access to long-term financing. It is against this back-drop that this study has sought to investigate how reforms of the legal and financial infrastructure could widen access to financing through innovative financial resource mobilization in scaling-up infrastructure development and service delivery to the teeming Nigeria population. Therefore, the central thesis of this study is that the inadequacy of appropriate laws and inefficient financial system are partly responsible for the huge financing gaps in the Nigeria‘s infrastructure market and with the legal and financial reforms, an enabling legal and financial environment that would open up space for resource mobilization through innovative financing techniques and sources will be created thereby widening access to long-term financing and increasing the appetite for private investment in the nation‘s public infrastructure assets and services. So, the overarching objective of this thesis is to explore how legal and financial system reforms can facilitate the development of financial models and instruments that can help mobilize financial resources to fund infrastructure and bridge the huge infrastructure financing gaps in Nigeria in a sustainable fashion. Given the infrastructure poverty that constrains economic growth and development in Nigeria, the outcomes of this proposed study would help inform the need for the legal and financial system reforms to unlock resources in addressing the problems of financing gaps in infrastructure projects development in Nigeria. Besides, such outcomes based on the Nigerian experience in infrastructure financing and development may be turned into valuable knowledge for policy –making and further research in Nigeria. Copyright / Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Centre for Human Rights / unrestricted

El uso del Project Finance (PF) se ha incrementado en las últimas dos décadas, lo que ha servido como economía de escala y fuente de crecimiento para países desarrollados. Por otro lado, para los países en vías de desarrollo, el PF ha tenido mayor protagonismo en proyectos para el desarrollo de infraestructura pública en colaboración con empresas privadas, lo que se conoce como asociación público-privada. Así, aunque el PF parece ser una solución para financiar proyectos de gran envergadura, algunos autores creen que es posible aplicar este concepto para proyectos más pequeños o menos complejos, por ello, existe una controversia entre la limitación y el alcance que puede tener esta herramienta. De este modo, el presente trabajo analiza los estudios realizados por distintos autores y compara las diferentes perspectivas de estos en cuanto al alcance y el uso del PF, específicamente, si la aplicación de la herramienta es solo para megaproyectos o también para proyectos de menor escala. Así, el trabajo concluye que todo dependería de qué tan altos sean los costos de estructuración, análisis, estudios, etc., para el proyecto, la capacidad del proyecto para asumir estos gastos y si el resultado todavía es bastante atractivo para los inversionistas. / The use of Project Finance has increased in the last two decades, serving as an economy of scale and a source of growth for developed countries. While, for developing countries, Project Finance has had a greater role in projects for the development of public infrastructure in collaboration with private companies, which is known as Public-Private Partnership. However, although Project Finance seems to be a solution to finance large-scale projects, some authors believe that it is possible to apply this concept for smaller or less complex projects, so there is a controversy between the limitation and scope that this may have. tool. This paper analyzes the studies carried out by different authors and compares the different perspectives that these have regarding the scope and use of Project Finance, specifically if the application of Project Finance is only for megaprojects or it could also occur for smaller-scale projects. Thus, the research concludes that everything would depend on how high the costs of structuring, analysis, studies, etc. are. for the project, the ability of the project to bear these expenses, and whether the result is still quite attractive to investors. / Trabajo de Suficiencia Profesional