Performance of Public-Private Partnerships in delivering social services: The Case of Universal Secondary Education Policy Implementation in Uganda
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2015
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Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC)
Abstract
After implementing the Universal Primary Education policy for 10 years, Uganda initiated the Universal Secondary
Education (USE) policy in 2007. The objective of the USE initiative was to equitably increasing access to secondary
education. The policy is implemented by public secondary schools as well as through a Public-Private Partnership
(USE PPP) between the Ministry of Education and Sports and selected private secondary schools—mainly in sub
counties without any public secondary schools. Within USE PPP, the government provides a subsidy (capitation
grant) to private schools to enrol UPE graduates. This brief examines the performance of the USE PPP. The focus
on USE PPP is due to the fact that this type of arrangement never existed prior to the USE policy. Based on primary
data collected by the authors in 2013, we show that the USE PPP is performing moderately well in terms of good
accountability, relevance, effectiveness, impact and participation. However, the USE PPP is performing poorly in
terms of efficiency and sustainability.