Publication: Reaching Unserved Communities in Africa with Basic Services : Can Small-Scale Private Service Providers Save the Day?
Date
2006-06
ISSN
Published
2006-06
Author(s)
Kariuki, Mukami
Schwartz, Jordan
Schur, Michael
Abstract
With urban and especially periurban
populations set to grow at unprecedented rates in Africa,
and service coverage continuing to lag, governments and
donors have begun to recognize that small-scale providers
have an increasingly critical role to play. They have also
begun to focus on the importance of creating an environment
that enables these providers to supply good quality service.
Most African countries face big deficits in infrastructure,
and their efforts to scale up the services of small-scale
service providers may be impeded by lack of capacity or
resources or even by collusion and rent seeking by larger,
formal service providers. Improving or extending the
services of small scale service providers must therefore be
part of-not a substitute for-reform of the infrastructure sector.
Citation
“Kariuki, Mukami; Schwartz, Jordan; Schur, Michael. 2006. Reaching Unserved Communities in Africa with Basic Services : Can Small-Scale Private Service Providers Save the Day?. Gridlines; No. 9. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/7c27244b-0742-5519-9c49-098aa6e6a394 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”