Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • S. N. Nyeck

   Pages 1-28

3. Procurement and Governance: Historical Precedents and Theoretical Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Implicit Dimensions of Public Procurement Contracts: African History and Debates

      • S. N. Nyeck

      Pages 31-49

   3. Why Do Some African Countries Negotiate Unfair Natural Resource Contracts?

      • Chrysantus Ayangafac, Dassa Bulcha, Sehen Bekele

      Pages 51-73

4. Public Procurement and Institutional Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Procurement Policy Subversion in Contracts Between South African Retailers and Suppliers

      • Marlese von Broembsen

      Pages 77-96

   3. Substantive and Objective Criteria in Preferential Public Procurement: The Case of the 2011 Regulations in South Africa

      • Stephen de La Harpe

      Pages 97-129

   4. Deviations and (In)discretions in the Governance of South African Public Entities

      • Justin Laing

      Pages 131-155

   5. Decentralization and Accountability Challenges to Appointing Independent Bid Committees in the Public Sector

      • Frank S. Jenkins

      Pages 157-180

   6. Public Procurement in Botswana: A Survey of Issues

      • Emmanuel Botlhale

      Pages 181-201

   7. History and Evolution of Public Procurement Reforms in Uganda

      • Simeon Wanyama

      Pages 203-231

5. Public Procurement and Social Accountability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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   2. Social Accountability Mechanisms and Public Procurement Reform in Nigeria

      • Kingsley Tochi Udeh

      Pages 235-260

   3. The Role of New Technologies of Communication and Social Audits in Procurement Monitoring

      • Chibuzo C. Ekwekwuo, S. N. Nyeck

      Pages 261-275

   4. Governance in the Health Sector Procurement: The Role of Public and Private Practitioners in Botswana

      • Molefe B. Phirinyane, Keneilwe S. Mooketsane

      Pages 277-297

   5. Budget Allocation Mechanisms and Public Infrastructure Governance in Nigeria: Lesson from Osun State

      • Opawole Akintayo, Jagboro Godwin Onajite, Opawole Mary Oluwatoyin

      Pages 299-312

   6. The Governance of Concessionary Assets: A Review of the Partnership Between Kenya and the Rift Valley Railways Consortium

      • Henry Amadi

      Pages 313-333

6. Back Matter

   Pages 335-366

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This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in which government purchases works, goods, and services from the private sector is one of the most sweeping policy reform undertaken in Africa in the past decade. Despite the transnational scope of policy change, very little is known about the mechanisms of public procurement governance at the subnational level. The argument in this volume is that policy reforms that mitigate contractual hazards along the three-dimensional “law-politics-business matrix” are more likely to bring about meaningful institutional transformation and broader social accountability. Key to substantive transformation ofpublic procurement is the revitalization and professionalization of the public sector to meet the opportunities and challenges of development by contract.

• governance
• Africa
• public procurement
• outsourcing
• development
• law
• institutions
• reform
• public policy
• devolution
• commissioning
• decentralization
• local government
• business
• politics

• Clarkson University, USA, Bangor, United Kingdom

  S.N. Nyeck

S.N. Nyeck is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clarkson University, USA. She is the co-editor of Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory and Citizenship.

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