Assessment of Enabling Environment for Public-Private Partnership in Water Supply Management, Lafia Town

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue VII, July 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Assessment of Enabling Environment for Public-Private Partnership in Water Supply Management, Lafia Town

Bashayi Obadiah
B.URP, M.Sc in Urban Management, Principal Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia, Nigeria

Abstract: Governments the world over, especially in developing countries, are experiencing an ever-increasing demand for improved health care, water supply, sanitation, education, housing and so on. The rising population and recent economic crisis in developing countries has affected provision of urban services neither the state nor the private sector alone can efficiently provide adequate water supply for the urban population. This paper therefore assessed enabling environment for partnership in Lafia town. The study population was 263,998 with total household of 20,308 and a sample of 500 representing 2.5% total households was chosen. The study adopt a three-stage stratified sampling method which Lafia town was divided into three Water Board area offices namely Lafia East, Lafia North and Lafia West and a systematic random sampling was used to administer questionnaires. The result of the assessment of shows that PPP is possible in Lafia town and lease contract is more favourable. The study recommends Government should formulate clear legislation and regulatory systems and qualified local, national and regional enterprises should be given the opportunity to compete for PPPs. Finally, PSP is not viewed as a rigid model, rather as a wide range of options which, at a minimum, seek to introduce commercial criteria in pricing, service delivery and/or allocation of resources.

Keywords: Enabling environment, Partnership, Public-Private Partnership, Private Sector Participation, Water supply

I. INTRODUCTION

Governments the world over, especially in developing countries, are experiencing an ever increasing demand for improved health care, water supply, sanitation, education, housing and so on. Water has now moved to the top of the development agenda in most developing countries. Adequate and effective delivery of public services is also central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) six (6) of access to water supply by all in 2030.
The rising population and recent economic crisis in developing countries has affected provision of urban services neither the state nor the private sector alone can efficiently provide adequate water supply for the urban population. Water supply management is under the control of public sector which has institutional and financial challenges to provide adequate water supply.

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