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Thirty Years of Public Sector Reforms in Africa : selected country experiences / editors Paulos Chanie, Paschal B. Mihyo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Kampala : Fountain Publishers, c2013.Description: xv, 339 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9789970252329
  • 9970252321
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 353.6 THI
Contents:
The trajectory of public administration in Africa: Background -- Reforms without change: Kenya's unending "War on Corruption" -- Public sector reform amid adversity and uncertainty: The Zimbabwean experience -- The privatization and deregulation of Dar es Salaam's public transport, 1983-2010: Outcomes and dilemmas -- Integrating all stakeholders: Health service governance in Addis Ababa -- The ups and downs of business process re-engineering (BPR): A tale of two offices in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia -- The inside story of outsourcing: contract management capacity in Tanzania -- E-Government for good governance: The case of Tanzania -- The Quantity-Quality balance: reforms in university education in Uganda -- Making outcomes matter: programme-based budgeting for a better public sector in Mauritius -- Good intentions, poor results: reforming the academic organizational structureand performance management system at the University of Botswana -- Big growth and big mistakes: Telecoms in South Africa -- The performance of decentralization and public sector accountability reforms in Uganda -- Contracting out public services to private agents: Lessons from the management of local government contracts in Ghana -- Lessons and conclusions.

Includes biographical references and index.

The trajectory of public administration in Africa: Background -- Reforms without change: Kenya's unending "War on Corruption" -- Public sector reform amid adversity and uncertainty: The Zimbabwean experience -- The privatization and deregulation of Dar es Salaam's public transport, 1983-2010: Outcomes and dilemmas -- Integrating all stakeholders: Health service governance in Addis Ababa -- The ups and downs of business process re-engineering (BPR): A tale of two offices in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia -- The inside story of outsourcing: contract management capacity in Tanzania -- E-Government for good governance: The case of Tanzania -- The Quantity-Quality balance: reforms in university education in Uganda -- Making outcomes matter: programme-based budgeting for a better public sector in Mauritius -- Good intentions, poor results: reforming the academic organizational structureand performance management system at the University of Botswana -- Big growth and big mistakes: Telecoms in South Africa -- The performance of decentralization and public sector accountability reforms in Uganda -- Contracting out public services to private agents: Lessons from the management of local government contracts in Ghana -- Lessons and conclusions.

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