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- ItemPublic private partnership governance for developing road infrastructure in Uganda : a public sector perspective(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04) Mugarura, Jude Thaddeo; Ndevu, Zwelinzima; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Public Leadership.ENGLISH SUMMARY : Theory and practice promulgate public private partnerships (PPPs) as a new procurement option for unlocking public infrastructure investment gaps in both developed and emerging economies. However, the contribution of PPPs towards improving public service delivery, especially for emerging economies, remains low due to poor governance. Given that Uganda recently adopted PPPs to develop road infrastructure, this study investigated the PPP environment in Uganda in order to establish the best approaches of governing PPPs for sustainable road infrastructure development. To achieve this, both national and international, and theoretical and practical perspectives were employed through qualitative research methodology with six interrelated objectives. Objective one sought to investigate the understanding and contribution of public infrastructure and PPPs through a review of literature. Findings indicated that PPPs are understood through the lenses of partnership relationships, contractual obligations and project lifecycle functions. Furthermore, PPPs have enormous benefits but are conditional upon the effective management of problems associated with them. Finally, based on public sector perspective, PPPs fit within the theoretical underpinnings of new public governance, public value, and new public service, and to a lesser extent new public management. The second objective reviewed literature and analysed documents to investigate the key elements of a PPP governance structure. Findings showed key elements of PPP governance structure to include best practices, critical success factors, PPP maturity trajectory, and stakeholder and risk management. Thirdly, literature was reviewed to investigate the international PPPs experiences and road practices. Lessons for Uganda included financial challenges and how governments have responded, the tolling practices and policies employed to ensure affordability and profitability of PPP roads, and the PPP road project examples with successes and failures for each and why such situations had to occur. Like the second objective, a review of literature and analysis of documents were undertaken to investigate the road reforms and their impact on road performance, and the PPP legal frameworks in Uganda for objective four and five respectively. Findings indicated that the past road subsector reforms have had limited effect on road infrastructure improvement and development because of lack of resource capacities and compromised governance systems and practices. In addition, results showed the existence of various legal policies supporting PPPs, though certain critical legal and policy frameworks are either non-existent, outdated, and with major inadequacies or both. Lastly, individual interviews were conducted to investigate the suitability of PPPs for road infrastructure development in Uganda. Thirty interviewees were used, and findings indicated a high motivation for PPP adoption but with limited understanding and awareness of PPPs, low PPP readiness levels with several challenges, and vast PPP opportunities but with many obstacles. Based on the aforementioned problems, respondents suggested critical success factors and best practices for effective management of PPP road projects. The findings from the six objectives resulted in the construction of a suitable PPP assessment and management governance model for road infrastructure development in Uganda. The development of the model was mainly informed by findings from the empirical study (i.e. objective 6), and supplemented with findings from the five literature and documentary analysis objectives in order to create robustness in the model. The effective application of the model is anticipated to remedy the current and future PPP road infrastructure development and governance problems.