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The Problem. Models of Social Services Systems: The Context of Privatization and Contracting. Overview. Concepts: New Public Management Principles Social Services Re-inventing Government Subsidiarity Privatization Contracting Out.
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The Problem Models of Social Services Systems: The Context of Privatization and Contracting
Overview • Concepts: New Public Management Principles • Social Services • Re-inventing Government • Subsidiarity • Privatization • Contracting Out
Service Delivery Systems and Categories of Service Delivery • Issue of “size”: hard services or soft with capital or recurrent costs • Macro--Physical Services • Highways, Sewerage Main Lines, Electricity • Deconcentrated or Privatized • Micro--Physical Services • Devolved or Delegated
Service Delivery Systems and Categories of Service Delivery • Issue of “size”: hard services or soft with capital or recurrent costs • Social Services--Health, Education or Community Development (such as Social Funds) • Delegated or Contracted • Investment or Production • Privatized
Service Delivery Systems and Categories of Service Delivery • Private Provision • Use of conventional Markets • Contracts with public agencies • Monopoly Franchises • Management Contracts • Vouchers • Consumer Cooperatives
Alternative Service Delivery Systems: Decentralization • Federal Relationship • Some power lies with National Unit • Some power lies with lower units
Alternative Service Delivery Systems • Federal Relationship • Key distinction: • Lower units cannot break away from National Unit • National Units cannot take power away from lower units • Under Federalism: One can transfer additional authority back to sub-units but not take power from federated governments
Alternative Service Delivery Systems • Federal Relationship • Examples • USA • Canada • Germany • Nigeria • India • Russian Federation • Austria • Switzerland • Malaysia
Alternative Service Delivery Systems • Unitary Systems and Sub-regional units • All power ultimately lies at national level • Local level power is given by national level • Power that national unit has given to local level can also be taken from it
Alternative Service Delivery Systems • Unitary Systems and Sub-regional units • Examples • United Kingdom • France • Kenya • Ivory Coast • South Africa? • Japan
Forms of Decentralized Service Delivery in Unitary Systems • Concept: • Transfer of authority to a lower level of government • Primary Unit of Government: • Lowest level that carries a bureaucracy with it
Forms of Decentralized Service Delivery in Unitary Systems • “Devolution”: Transfer to non-Federal political body • Budget and personal authority to district and town councils • Key--power lies with lower level politicians
Forms of Decentralized Service Delivery in Unitary Systems • De-concentration: Transfer to non-Federal political body • Transfer of authority to administrators at lower level within the administrative system • Delegation • Public Corporations or parastatals • Privatization
Forms of Decentralized Service Delivery in Unitary Systems • Program and Project Decentralization: • Sectoral - By regular line or agency within a Ministry • e.g. Focused activity - seed production (Green Revolution) • agricultural experiments
Forms of Decentralized Service Delivery in Unitary Systems • Program and Project Decentralization: • Deconcentration or Devolution of authority to central level special unit • e.g. Water, health or education projects to subordinate administrative or council structures • Port authorities
Forms of Decentralized Service Delivery in Unitary Systems • Program and Project Decentralization: • Inter-Ministerial Committees or Units • Planning supervision • Overlapping memberships, e.g. Land Use Planning
Forms of Decentralized Service Delivery in Unitary Systems • Program and Project Decentralization: • Creation of field level Special Project Units with semi-autonomous status • Range Management project • Integrated Rural Development
Integrated Rural Development • Most well-known type of special project: • Special designated geographical areas • Multitude of project activity in different sectors that may overlap or compliment