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Module 05: Identifying Constraints
5.1 Why analyse constraints?
After collecting information, the municipality will need to assess the
potential obstacles and constraints that the public-private partnership
will face. Partnership entails compromise and a change in the usual way
of doing things – therefore it is only natural that certain barriers
will exist. It is important for the municipality to recognise these likely
impediments and to build in strategies to cope with them in order for
the partnership to function effectively. This should be done early in
the process to allow time to implement the necessary changes.
In some instances, a partnership arrangement may not be an
effective or realistic means of working at all. This may be due either
to major macro constraints or internal challenges, as with the following
examples.
◊ The domestic private sector, which would have been asked to provide
the service, is either weak or absent, while at the same time international
service providers show no interest in that particular market. In such
instances, policies should be targeted toward private sector development;
alternatively, involvement by NGOs could be regarded as an alternative
to partnership with the private sector.
◊ Community organisations are extremely weak and fractured (hence
they do not have the resources or capacity necessary to fully commit
to a partnership); alternatively, CBOs and NGOs may be absent altogether.
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