Public-Private Partnership (PPP): Some Reflections on Ethiopian Higher Education

  • Ayenachew Aseffa

Abstract

Public- Private Partnership(PPP) is a post-cold war phenomenon developed  with the advent and popularization of theories likeNew Public Management  (NPM)  and  Alternate  Service  Delivery  (ASD).  It  has  become  one  of  the  important  developmental  tools  and  many  countries  have  also  gained  significant  results  by  effectively  using  public-private  partnerships  in  higher  education.
In  addition  to  the  various  practical  benefits  public-private  partnership both to the public and the private sectors, to the government, to the  general public and others, in Ethiopia there are a number of reasons for such  partnerships to be established, developed and utilized. More over, the level of  higher education development in Ethiopia provides avery wide opportunity  for public- private partnerships. Yet, the state ofpublic-private partnership in  Ethiopian  higher  education  is  very  low  and  unorganized  and  thus  requires lots of effort from all stakeholders .This  summary  research  report  is  extracted  from  the author’s   Masters’
Thesis carried out in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of  Masters  of  Public  Administration  (MPA),  Faculty  of  Business  and  Economics, Addis Ababa University. The research wascarried out under the of  Dr.  Mulugeta  Abebe,  whom  I  wish  to  acknowledge  for  his  helpful and instructive guidance

 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Abebe Haile Gabriel, 2004. Enhancing Public-Private

Partnership for Development of Competitive Higher Education

in Ethiopia: Some Reflections on Private Higher Education.

Proceedings from the second national conference on private

higher education in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: St Mary’s

University College.

Allen W. Joan et al, 1989. The Private Sector in State Service

Delivery: Examples of Innovative Practices.Washington D.C:

Urban Institute press.

Ayenew Tessera, 2005. The Role of Public-Private Partnership

in Promoting Quality of Education and Enhancing the

Institutional Sustainability of Private HEIs. Proceedings from

the third national conference on private higher education in

Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: St Mary’s University College.

Borins, S., 1995. Government in Transition: The Inaugural

Conference of the Commonwealth Association for Public

Administration and Management. Toronto: The Commonwealth

Secretariat.

Borins S., 2000. The New Public Management: Current

Trends and Future Prospects.Toronto: University of Toronto.

Boston, J., Martin, J., Pallot, J., and Walsh, P. 1996. Public

Management: The New Zealand Model. Auckland: Oxford

press.

Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, 2007. ‘Public

Private Partnerships: Introduction’. www.ccppp.org.ca 22 March

Damtew Teferra, 2005. Ethiopian Higher Education: Nurturing

Quality Striving for Excellence. Keynote Speech on the third

national conference on private higher education in Ethiopia.

Addis Ababa: St Mary’s University College.

Department of the Environment and Local Government of

Ireland,2004.IntroductiontoPublic-Private Partnerships.

Dublin: Department of the Environment and Local Government

of Ireland.

Encyclopedia,2006.Private-Partnerships

www.encyclopedia.com[Cited 23 March, 2007]

FDRE, 2003. Proclamation No. 351/2003. Higher Education

Proclamation.Federal Negarit Gazeta. 9th year. No. 72. Addis

Ababa.

Ford, R. and Zussman, D., 1999, Alternative Service Delivery:

Transcending BoundariesToronto: KPMG and the Institute of

Public Administration of Canada.

Government of India Planning Commission, 2004. Report of the

Public- Private Partnership Sub-Group on Social Sector. New

Delhi: Government of India Planning Commission.

Habtamu Wondimu, 2003. African Higher Education: An

international Reference Hand Book. Indianapolis: Indiana

University Press.

Harry P. Hatry, 1983. A Review of Private Approaches to the

Delivery of Public Services.Washington D.C: Urban Institute

press.

John G. Ruggie and Diana Barrett, 2003. HIV/AIDS and

Business in Africa and Asia: A Guide to Partnerships.Harvard:

Center for Business and Government, Harvard.

Kitaev, Igor, 1999. Private Education in Sub-Saran Africa: A

re- examination of theories and concepts related to its

development and finance. Paris: International Institute for

Educational Planning/ UNESCO.

Kotecha, Piyushi, 2003. "Improving the quality of

partnerships b/n the public and private sectors in South

African higher education" Albany: Center for International

Higher Education. Lynch School of Education, Boston College.

Levy Daniel C. (2002).Unanticipated Development:

perspectives on Private Higher Educations' Emerging Role

Program for Research on Private Higher Education working

paper No. 1.New York: State university of New York.

Patrick O. Yalokwu, 2003. Public-Private Partnership in

Higher Education Provision: Agenda for Stimulating

Sustainable Development of Ethiopia. Proceedings from the first

national conference on private higher education in Ethiopia.

Addis Ababa: St Mary’s University College.

Peter Farlam, 2005. NEPAD Policy Focus Series: Assessing

Public–Private Partnerships in Africa. Pretoria: The South

African Institute of International Affairs.

State Government of British Columbia, 2003. An Introduction

to Public-Private Partnerships.Victoria: State Government of

British Columbia.

Tooley, James, 1999. “Should the Private Sector Profit from

Education?” Keynote Speech delivered to the Business of Education Forum, May 11, 1999, at University of Newcastle,

England.

USAID, 2005. ‘Higher education in Ethiopia.’ www.usaid.org

June, 2007.

USCongress Library, 2006. ‘Higher education: Ethiopia’.

www.congresslibrary.org5 June, 2007.

Wolfgang Drechsler, 2005. The Rise and Demise of the New

Public Management Tartu: University of Tartu and Tallinn

University of Technology.

World Bank Report, 2002. Constructing Knowledge Societies:

New Challenges for Tertiary Education. Washington, D.C.:

The World Bank.

World Bank, 2004. Higher Education Development for Ethiopia:

pursuing the vision. Working Paper Series No. 65, World Bank.
Published
2010-05-18