Module 11: Selecting Options

11.3. Who is involved?

The process of selecting options should involve all stakeholders in the provision and consumption of the service. Although such participation has been described earlier, it is wise once again to reassess the key groups of stakeholders and their potential support for or opposition to PPP:

◊ the national government;

◊ provincial and local governments, which will act (or may act) as grantors of private sector contracts, regulators, partners or financiers of the utility;

◊ regional or local planning departments, which coordinate land use and infrastructure planning;

◊ other established regulatory entities (such as commissions, environmental agencies and so on);

◊ political parties and individual politicians;

◊ labour/trade unions;

◊ the utility management;

◊ suppliers of goods and services to the sector; and

◊ consumer organisations (formal and informal and including non-governmental organisations that are concerned with service quality and prices and with protecting the poor).

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