Abstract
Despite the multiple stakeholder-centered complexities involved, the public–private partnership (PPP) modality is increasingly the vehicle of choice for the provision of public services in the developing world. This article asks how PPPs might overcome sustainability challenges in a meaningful way while examining which stakeholder-centered interventions are effective in facilitating rather than undermining the continuity of the partnership operations. We draw on the notion of democratic accountability and an in-depth qualitative sector-level case study in Uganda. The findings underscore the primacy of practices that help to reduce stakeholder information asymmetry, increase partnerships’ procedural legitimacy, and improve the understanding of substantive partnership outcomes.
Highlights
Cross-sector collaboration for the production and provision of public services is internationally well-established as a concept and a practice
As we demonstrate in the subsequent parts, the findings suggest the efficacy of a set of vertical and horizontal stakeholder engagement practices, including (1) visibility and full disclosure reporting, (2) enabling of public access to partnership information, and (3) the participatory implementation of activities and projects that help to reduce partnership information asymmetry, increase partnerships’ procedural legitimacy, and improve the understanding of substantive partnership outcomes
The evidence indicates that partners ensure that partnership operations are visible between themselves and with other stakeholders through periodic reviews and cascaded reporting
Summary
Cross-sector collaboration for the production and provision of public services is internationally well-established as a concept and a practice. PPP is considered prominently from collaborative governance (Adams, 2015; Ansell & Gash, 2008; Nohrstedt, 2016), new public management (Hyndman & Liguori, 2016), new public governance (Osborne, 2010) and post new public management (Christensen & Laegreid, 2007) lenses It is extensively rationalized, including as an antidote to fiscal and efficiency difficulties (Chen, 2010; Eriksson & Hellström; Stafford & Stapleton, 2017), an agile response to the increasing complexities of public problems (Brinkerhoff & Brinkerhoff, 2011; Gray, 1989; Jacobs, 2010), a risk-sharing mechanism (Currie & Teague, 2015; O'Flynn, 2009), and an instrument for ideological comprise (Bradford, 2003; Heuer, 2011). Since the early 2000s, many countries in the developed and developing world have intensified efforts to establish the PPP as important framework of public service and infrastructure provision (World Bank, 2015, 2017)
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