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Water Supply Systems in Nepal: How to build better, more sustainable services

22/07/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, Nepali

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In Nepal, only 25% of water supply schemes are functioning well. While there are several approaches to setting up schemes, there is only one model of ongoing service management – community-based management through local water user committees. This case study describes how Oxfam, LeFil Consulting and Nepali enterprise SmartPaani have explored alternative models to boost […]

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Briefing paper

False Promises: How delivering education through public-private partnerships risks fueling inequality instead of achieving quality education for all

09/04/2019

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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A growing body of evidence shows that education public-private partnerships (PPPs) which support private schooling are too often failing the most vulnerable children and risk deepening inequality. Despite this, the World Bank has been increasingly promoting education PPPs in poor countries through its lending and advice. Oxfam’s research shows that over a fifth of World […]

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Briefing paper

Hitting the Target: An agenda for aid in times of extreme inequality

08/04/2019

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is looming, and the poorest countries face significant funding gaps as well as growing economic inequality that stands in the way of poverty reduction. This means that aid has a critical role to play, and a new mission to fight both inequality and poverty. This is only […]

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Briefing paper

Moral Hazard? ‘Mega’ public-private partnerships in African agriculture

01/09/2014

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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African governments are increasingly turning to partnerships with donors and multinational companies to stimulate investment in agriculture, after decades of neglect. Such public–private partnerships (PPPs) ‘at scale’ offer the allure of increased capital and technology, rises in productivity and foreign exchange earnings. In this briefing paper Oxfam assesses the effectiveness and potential of these mega-PPPs as […]

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Briefing note

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?

07/04/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Lesotho was built under a public–private partnership (PPP), which is the first of its kind in a low-income country and has been described as opening a new era for private sector involvement in healthcare in Africa. Instead, the Ministry of Health in one of the poorest and most unequal […]

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Water Supply Systems in Nepal: How to build better, more sustainable services

False Promises: How delivering education through public-private partnerships risks fueling inequality instead of achieving quality education for all

Hitting the Target: An agenda for aid in times of extreme inequality

Moral Hazard? ‘Mega’ public-private partnerships in African agriculture

A Dangerous Diversion: Will the IFC’s flagship health PPP bankrupt Lesotho’s Ministry of Health?