The Nonstate Provision of Health Services and Citizen Accountability in Uganda
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2015
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Indiana University Press
Abstract
Uganda is one of the many countries in the Global South where nonstate
actors’ involvement in delivering social services has grown in numbers,
diversity, and importance. Indeed, nonstate provision plays a major role in
the delivery of health services. As a result, nonstate providers (NSPs) have
increasingly been recognized by governments and donors to be instrumental
in helping realize the health-related Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).
Existing studies on the nonstate provision of social welfare have
focused on technical and administrative concerns, particularly in developing
countries, such as the relative efficiency of the public versus the private provision of social services (Katusiimeh 2012; Ndandiko 2010). However,
recent literature has concluded that nonstate provision can have profound
effects on political life, particularly on equity (access to social welfare),
state capacity, and accountability (Brass 2014; Cammett and MacLean 2011,
2014). To date, little empirical research explores the political consequences
of the nonstate provision of social welfare, particularly in the context of
sub-Saharan Africa.
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Nonstate Provision, Health Services, Citizen Accountability
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Katusiimeh, M. W. (2015). The nonstate provision of health services and citizen accountability in Uganda. Africa today, 62(1), 85-105. Indiana University Press