2018
DOI: 10.4236/ojps.2018.81002
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Nature and Scope of Public Private Partnerships in the Water Sector in Kenya

Abstract: Public-Private Partnership refers to an approach which combines positive aspects of Public and private sectors to come up with better public service delivery model. The PPP arrangements neither appear uniformly nor apply in all circumstances. The study investigated whether or not, through water sector reforms PPP has been realized in the provision of water services in Kenya. Using Public choice theory the study used secondary data and primary data from seven (7) Focus Group Discussions, and 33 Key informant in… Show more

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“…As part of its strategy for providing services in low-income regions, Kisumu Water and Sanitation Company (KIWASCO) and partners have delegated the delivery of water services to community-based, small-scale commercial entrepreneurs since 2004. (Obosi, 2018). Water is handled by water committees under the direction of elected officials like street chairpersons.…”
Section: 3a Se's Ambition Is To Scale Business Venturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…As part of its strategy for providing services in low-income regions, Kisumu Water and Sanitation Company (KIWASCO) and partners have delegated the delivery of water services to community-based, small-scale commercial entrepreneurs since 2004. (Obosi, 2018). Water is handled by water committees under the direction of elected officials like street chairpersons.…”
Section: 3a Se's Ambition Is To Scale Business Venturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although community water supply has succeeded in promising sustainable water supply solutions in a number of countries, at best we can talk of mixed results since the approach has attracted both criticism and support in almost equal measure, in theory and in practice. In the area of providing and maintaining water services that local communities have a leading role, the community water supply support has found support in the following scholarly works including Hope (2015a), Obosi (2011Obosi ( , 2015Obosi ( , 2020 and McGranahan and Kjellén (2006) which in separate studies further support community management in community water supply. There are scholars who have little faith in service delivery under the community management mode.…”
Section: Community Water Servicesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Privatization in Kenya began with a divestiture exercise that saw the government sell proportions of its shares in the public enterprises Privatization of the concerned enterprises were guided by a privatization policy that only involved the revision of statutes for the concerned sectors or corporations. The privatisation of water services in Kenya was ushered in by the sectoral reforms through Water Act 2002 (Government of Kenya, 2002) even before the Privatization Bill of 2004 was published (Obosi, 2018). The Government of Kenya established Seven Water Regulatory Boards in Kenya and embraced the commercialization of services principle.…”
Section: Public-private Partnerships/privatization Policiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However for the funding from the WSTF, the condition for qualifying for the grant is access to the rest of the community. In the urban areas, some utility companies, like Kisumu Water and Sanitation Company (KIWASCO) in Kisumu, have as part of its approach to providing services in low-income areas of Kisumu implemented a delegated management model since 2004, in which it partners with small-scale private operators which are formed from within the community that is to be served [23].…”
Section: Involvement Of Public Private Partnershipmentioning
confidence: 99%