Poverty is the single greatest burden of the South African nation, with estimates that at least seventeen million of the population survives below the minimum basic income level. The socio-economic and environmental impacts of these alarming poverty levels are worsened by ineffective service delivery in South Africa, which has been fraught by administrative, legislative and financial incapacities. Despite clear commitments outlined in the South African constitution, legislation, mandates and policies to provide environmentally sustainable services to all South Africans; the first chapters of this dissertation argues that the situation in terms of service delivery is reaching a crisis point and reinforces claims that government alone cannot address this calamity. The residents of the Marikana Township are no strangers to the hardship of poverty and futile attempts at service provision by the Rustenburg municipality. The on-going lack of service delivery has resulted in increasing levels of diseases, environmental pollution and degradation. The effects of these traditional environmental hazards are exacerbated by modern environmental hazards emanating from mining activities in close proximity to the community, by one of the largest platinum producers in South Africa. The consequences of these combined forces necessitates that urgent action is taken and that the problem of service delivery is addressed effectively and efficiently. The waste management services to the communities of Marikana, supplied by Rustenburg Municipality, typify service delivery. In recent years, the South African government has sought alternative service delivery mechanisms as solutions to inadequate and ineffective service provision to communities. This is a clear imperative in the broader context of a post-apartheid society. One organisational arrangement for service provision, which is becoming increasingly popular on a worldwide scale, is tri-sector partnerships. In tri-sector partnerships, a relationship is established to the point where corporations ‘pool’ complementary resources, knowledge and skills from across the three sectors of society namely business, government and civil society to jointly address complex social impacts. Although there have been instances where tri-sector partnerships have been initiated, there is limited evidence and experience of tri-sector partnerships being actively managed and sustained over time. In developing countries, in particular South Africa, the concept of these partnership formations is relatively novel and is an option worthy of future exploration. The waste management tri-sector partnership in the Moses Kotane municipal district is an example of an unconventional ‘successful’ tri-sector partnership in the North West province of South Africa. The communities within the Moses Kotane municipal district illustrate characteristics of poverty in the same magnitude of the communities within the Rustenburg Municipality, both entities within the Bojanala Platinum District. To date, the partnership has achieved all strategic objectives of the partnership in terms of improving waste collection, the realisation of employment for local community members and establishing selected community members as business owners. Despite these objectives being achieved by all sectors, aspects of implementation can be enhanced to further the success of the approach. This dissertation attempts to provide solutions to the waste management concerns of the Marikana community by assessing and adapting the tri-sector partnership approach as it was implemented in the Moses Kotane district. Strategies are also recommended to solve the concerns plaguing the Moses-Kotane waste management tri-sector partnership. The recommendations are primarily aimed at improving the success and sustainability (financial and environmentally) of the tri-sector partnership with the aim of improving the replication feasibility of this approach. This dissertation concludes that the model based on tri-sector partnership arrangements has a definite potential to not only improve on service delivery, but be more effective in tackling problems related to the degradation of water, soil and land resources and therefore minimise health impacts on nearby communities. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology / Unrestricted

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:48:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 71050100636.pdf.jpg: 18475 bytes, checksum: cef76060e1567144b6d6df05643a4a54 (MD5) 71050100636.pdf: 1411133 bytes, checksum: 7e366994dab8b42eb7d458fbd264a90b (MD5) 71050100636.pdf.txt: 636208 bytes, checksum: 1b231f6201adc4780d2585b2fd3b41a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-17T00:00:00Z / A Tese discute as implicações e desdobramentos da construção de Parcerias Tri-Setoriais na esfera pública, de forma a avançar na compreensão de suas perspectivas, impasses e armadilhas para a modernização da gestão de políticas e projetos sociais e a ampliação da cidadania no cenário brasileiro. São consideradas Parcerias Tri-Setoriais aquelas que envolvem simultaneamente atores governamentais, da sociedade civil e do mercado. Para tanto, são analisadas três experiências de intervenção em projetos sociais apoiadas pela Fundação AVINA no Brasil nas agendas de intervenção de educação, meio ambiente, pobreza e infância e adolescência. A discussão teórica levanta as principais correntes e tradições teóricas que analisam a ação do Estado, das organizações da sociedade civil e das empresas em direção à esfera pública. Em seguida são discutidas e articuladas propostas teóricas de interpretação das interações colaborativas entre atores sociais, de forma construir um quadro analítico capaz de guiar a pesquisa de campo. A investigação se inscreve no âmbito do chamado Estudo de Caso Extendido e recorre à abordagem metodológica qualitativa para coleta, tratamento e análise dos dados. Os resultados indicam que práticas tradicionais de construção de projetos de intervenção social e também de parcerias perduram dentro dos processos de interação das Parcerias Tri-Setoriais, apontando que modelos lineares e gerencialistas de explicação e intervenção na dinâmica desse fenômeno são pouco consistentes em termos de capacidade explicativa da realidade. As interações entre atores da sociedade civil, do Estado e de mercado são marcadas pela complexidade e pela construção de uma práxis não linear e marcada simultâneamente pela ocorrência de processos de conflito e cooperação, engajamento e distanciamento, e resistência e adesão. Frente a isso, as melhorias na provisão de políticas e projetos sociais advindas das Parcerias Tri-Setoriais nem sempre se fazem acompanhadas de avanços na construção da cidadania e de uma esfera pública mais plural e democrática no cenário brasileiro. Todo esse quadro informa a necessidade de se problematizar as Parcerias Tri-Setoriais a partir de modelos teóricos que incorporem a discussão da esfera pública e dos encontros e desencontros entre atores nessa dimensão, a fim de se melhor compreender as promessas, desdobramentos e armadilhas que tal perspectiva traz para a gestão social. / This Thesis discusses the implications of Tri-sectorial Partnerships in the public sphere, in way to understand its perspectives and challenges for the modernization of the management of social policies and projects and the enlargement of the citizenship in the Brazilian scenery. Three experiences supported by the AVINA Foundation in Brazil are analyzed in the areas of education, environment, poverty and childhood. The theoretical aproach discusses the main currents and traditions that analyze the action of the State, the civil society organizations and the companies in the public sphere. The collaborative interactions among social actors are discussed too, in way to build an analytical framework capable to guide the field research. The investigation is basead in the methodological proposal of Case Study Extended and in the qualitative approach for collection, treatment and analysis of the data. The results indicate that traditional practices of construction of projects of social intervention and also of partnerships can be find inside the the processes of interaction between actors in the Tri-sectorial Partnerships. Managerial and tecnicists models of explanation of that phenomenon offer little contribution in terms of explanatory capacity of the reality. The interactions among actors of the civil society, State and market are marked by the complexity and for the construction of practices based simultaneously on conflict and cooperation, engagement and estrangement, resistance and adhesion. The improvements in the provision of social policies and projects with the Tri-sectorial Partnerships not always results in progresses in the construction of a more plural and democratic public sphere in the Brazilian scenery. This perspective point the relevance of understand the Tri-sectorial Partnerships from theoretical models that incorporate the discussion of the public sphere, in order to advance the studies in the field of social management.