Thirty years of public sector reforms in Africa
Subtitle: selected country experiences
By: editors Paulos Chanie (PhD), Paschal B. Mihyo (Prof.).
Contributors: Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa
Publisher: Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA); Fountain Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Kampala, Uganda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9789970252329
Subjects: Public administration
Notes: Includes biographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The trajectory of public administration in Africa: Background; title: Reforms without change: Kenya's unending "War on Corruption"; title: Public sector reform amid adversity and uncertainty: The Zimbabwean experience; title: The privatization and deregulation of Dar es Salaam's public transport, 1983-2010: Outcomes and dilemmas; title: Integrating all stakeholders: Health service governance in Addis Ababa; title: The ups and downs of business process re-engineering (BPR): A tale of two offices in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia; title: The inside story of outsourcing: contract management capacity in Tanzania; title: E-Government for good governance: The case of Tanzania; title: The Quantity-Quality balance: reforms in university education in Uganda; title: Making outcomes matter: programme-based budgeting for a better public sector in Mauritius; title: Good intentions, poor results: reforming the academic organizational structureand performance management system at the University of Botswana; title: Big growth and big mistakes: Telecoms in South Africa; title: The performance of decentralization and public sector accountability reforms in Uganda; title: Contracting out public services to private agents: Lessons from the management of local government contracts in Ghana; title: Lessons and conclusions.