PPP AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN ARICA: THE NIGERIA EXPERIENCE

ABSTRACT

The paper examines the public-private partnerships (PPP) and service delivery in Africa with particular reference to Nigeria.  The paper begins with the reviews of the origins, core principles and different rationale of PPP, as well as the main challenges and difficulties stemming from the transposition of such arrangements in service delivery in Nigeria. Public-private partnership (PPP) is increasingly perceived as an innovative approach to provide service for all, innovations in these areas are taken in the form of both introducing business practices into the government and inviting private business to deliver public services.  The work adopts secondary source of data which was obtained through the review of extant literature from journals, scholarly articles from the internet, and books etc. The paper used both qualitative and quantitative techniques for content analysis of secondary data, and also borrows from the governance  and public choice  theories  as it highlights the need to identify and establish the different stakeholders in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) in service delivery. The paper believes that public and private sectors complement each other in providing services to the public and that the Public Private Partnership (PPP) strategy can be used to address deficiencies in service delivery in order to remedy the shortage in the country. The paper concludes that based on this belief, close public-private relationships should be built by the Nigeria government to achieve economy and efficiency in the provision and delivery of public services.

Keywords: Public Private Partnerships, Contracts, Service Delivery