This book exposes the inefficiencies in private sector provision and lack of capacity of Local Governments to deal with solid waste collection. The book will be essential for students, researchers and practitioners involved in areas such as policy, markets, local governments, environmental sanitation, and solid waste management. The book provides investigation into policy gaps and practice of the evolving private sector involvement in solid waste collection in a developing country context. It also deals with how capacity of public and private sectors, and regulation of the private sector influence private sector performance. The book provides practical solutions for both public and private sectors in developing countries to deal with the problems of solid waste collection and management.
Zusammenfassung
The private sector involvement in public service is intended to achieve efficiency gain and better service quality through increasing private sector finance and expertise. However, these benefits are most often not achieved in developing countries due to investment risk of private finance, and problems of capacity and regulation of the private sect
Inhalt
1 Evolving Management of Urban Solid Waste Services2 Institutional and Regulatory Context of Solid Waste Management in Ghana3 Theoretical Framework of Private Sector Involvement in Solid Waste Service Provision4 Research Methodology5 Evolving Practices of Involving Private Sector and Households in Service Provision6 Private Sector Performance: Productivity and Service Quality in Solid Waste Collection7 Private Sector Capacity: Scale of Operations and Capability of Companies8 Regulation of Private Sector Involvement in Solid Waste Collection9 Conclusions and Implications