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Briefing Notes | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. Social efficiency and water operators’ partnerships. Madeleine Bélanger Dumontier, David McDonald, Susan Spronk, Catherine Baron and Dieter Wartchow. Much of the priority setting in Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) has been driven by benchmarking criteria, sidelining broader social goals in the process. We present the concept of ‘social efficiency’ to help bridge this knowledge-sharing gap. Clinical staff and public hospitals in South Africa. Jane Doherty, 2014.

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Archive | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. David A. McDonald and L. Smith. 2004. Privatising Cape Town: From apartheid to neoliberalism in the mother city. Urban Studies, 41(8): 1461-1484. Greg Ruiters. 2004. Hard to swallow, recent developments in municipal services and conditions of access. Alternatives, 2(8). Greg Ruiters. 2004. Water privatization in South Africa. ESR Review, 4(4). Greg Ruiters. 2004. Local government confronts the new ungovernability. Debate (9 August): 13-17. SA Labour Bulletin, 28(1): 1-2. Greg Ruiter...

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Our Objectives | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. Finding recipes for success. The MSP has established a set of norms to evaluate public service delivery, including equity, accountability and solidarity (read more about our Methodology. There is no singular way to evaluate these norms and no public service is ‘perfect’ but it is an attempt to establish explicit and measurable criteria against which public models can be gauged, and which allow for reasonable comparisons across sectors and regions. Subscribe to our newsletter. Univer...

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Multimedia | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. Acuerdo Público Comunitario - Vereda San Andrés, Girardota, Colombia. March 3, 2016. Bridging Waters Film Series. August 3, 2015. México: Por el derecho a la salud. May 20, 2015. Why Public-Private Partnerships don’t work. March 16, 2015. Por qué las Asociaciones Público-Privadas no funcionan? March 16, 2015. This Is What Energy Democracy Looks Like. February 27, 2015. Health For All Now! The 3rd People's Health Assembly. February 19, 2015. December 9, 2014. December 5, 2014. Water ...

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Corporatization | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. Corporatization is arguably the single most important trend in ‘public’ service delivery today. It refers to government ownership models that grant legal and financial autonomy to public enterprises that operate with some independence from the state. Water and electricity utilities are common examples, but the practice extends to a much wider range of goods and services, from airports to universities to hospitals (e.g. in Malaysia. The main objective of corporatization is to create ...

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Publications | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services. Edited by David A. McDonald, 2016. How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatization efforts, societies in the global South are increasingly seeking progres. Social Efficiency and the Future of Water Operators’ Partnerships. Madeleine Bélanger Dumontier, David A. McDonald, Susan Spronk, Catherine Baron and Dieter Wartchow, 2016.

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In the Media | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. Global public water alliance must not be allowed to evaporate. By David McDonald, Guardian Poverty Matters Blog, Dec. 30, 2013. El agua vuelve al grifo público. By Dani Cordero,. Jan 3, 2014. See more at: http:/ municipalservicesproject.org/event/media#sthash.O5SDJRqX.dpuf. Global public water alliance must not be allowed to evaporate. By David McDonald, Guardian Poverty Matters Blog, Dec. 30, 2013. El agua vuelve al grifo público. By Dani Cordero,. Jan 3, 2014. Scott Price, The Dom...

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Our Network | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. African Centre on Citizenship and Democracy. ACCEDE at the University of the Western Cape's School of Government focuses on issues of citizenship, democracy and development. It plays a key role in mobilizing scholars and resources toward a constructive but critical examination of the factors and policy environments that affect the development of a more inclusive citizenship in Africa. Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios. Focus on the Global South. PHM is a global grassroots...

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Articles | Municipal Services Project

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Skip to main content. To corporatize or not to corporatize (and if so, how? David A. McDonald. Governments around the world are increasingly turning to the use of stand-alone, state-owned utilities to deliver core services such as water and electricity. This article reviews the history of such ‘corporatization’ and argues that its recent resurgence has been heavily influenced by neoliberal theory and practice, raising important questions about whether it should be adopted as a public service model. MULTI...