EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

Abstract

Discussion around the efficacy and effectiveness of Public private partnership agreement (PPPA) has become increasingly polarised. Private enterprises now build and staff the garbage trucks. They build and operate roadways; they staff manual and electronic toll collection systems; and they plow and maintain road surfaces. Critics of PPPA that, it has been suggested that the projects pursued are ones that are perceived to be financially viable from the private sector perspective; the ethical motivation is profitability over poverty reduction; the privatisation of some services will lead to the poor being left behind because of lack of affordability; and governments’ control over public services is greatly reduced with PPPA.