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

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