Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781137521361 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 366 str.

S. N. Nyeck

Opis

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in which government purchases works, goods, and services from the private sector is one of the most sweeping policy reform undertaken in Africa in the past decade. Despite the transnational scope of policy change, very little is known about the mechanisms of public procurement governance at the subnational level. The argument in this volume is that policy reforms that mitigate contractual hazards along the three-dimensional "law-politics-business matrix" are more likely to bring about meaningful institutional transformation and broader social accountability. Key to substantive transformation of public procurement is the revitalization and professionalization of the public sector to meet the opportunities and challenges of development by contract.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures

Acronyms

Foreword

Edmond Keller

Introduction

S.N.Nyeck

Part I:  Procurement and Governance: Historical Precedents and Theoretical Reflections 

Chapter 1: Implicit Dimensions of Public Procurement Contracts: African History and Debates 

S.N. Nyeck

Chapter 2: Why Do some African Countries Negotiate Unfair Resource Contracts? 

Chrysantus Ayangafac, Dassa Bulcha and Sehen Bekele

Part II: Public Procurement and Institutional Transformation

Chapter 3: Procurement Policy Subversion in Contracts between South African Retailers and Suppliers

 Marlese Von Broembsen

Chapter 4: Substantive and Objective Criteria in Preferential Public Procurement: The Case of   2011 Regulations in South Africa

Stephen de La Harpe

Chapter 5: Deviations and (In)discretions in the Governance  of South African Public Entities Enjoy

Justin Laing

Chapter 6: Decentralization and Accountability Challenges to Appointing Independent Bid Committees in the Public Sector

Frank S. Jenkins

Chapter 7: Public Procurement in Botswana: A Survey of Issues

Emmanuel Botlhale 

Chapter 8: History and Evolution of Public Procurement Reforms in Uganda

Simeon Wanyama

Part III: Public Procurement and Social of Accountability

Chapter 9: Social Accountability Mechanisms and Public Procurement Reform in Nigeria 

Kingsley Tochi Udeh

Chapter 10: The Role of New Technologies of Communication and Social Audits in Procurement Monitoring

Chibuzo C. Ekwekwuo & S.N. Nyeck

Chapter 11: Governance in the Health Sector Procurement: The Role of Public and Private Practitioners in Botswana

Molefe B. Phirinyane & Keneilwe S. Mooketsane 

Chapter 12: Budget Allocation Mechanisms and Public Infrastructure Governance in Nigeria: Lesson from Osun State

Opawole Akintayo, J.G. Onajite, Opawole Oluwatoyin 

Chapter 13: The Governance of Concessionary Assets: A Review of the Partnership between Kenya and the Rift Valley Railways Consortium

Henry Amadi 

Annexes

Works Cited 

About the Contributors

Index

O autorze

S.N. Nyeck is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clarkson University, USA. She is the co-editor of Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory and Citizenship.