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Urban infrastructure procurement in low-income countries
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posted on 2008-11-05, 11:38 authored by M. Sohail (Khan), Andrew BaldwinThe high rate of urban growth in most low-income countries
has resulted in ever-increasing demands for
improvements in urban infrastructure. The scarce financial,
technical and managerial resources in such countries
require efficient and effective management if they are to
be used to optimum effect. Equally, any enhancement in
performance of the delivery mechanisms for urban infrastructure
is to be welcomed. Community partnered procurement
(CPP) has been used in South Asian countries (India,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka), as well as in African countries, to
increase the access of low-income communities to urban
infrastructure, and has resulted in improved access and
quality of urban infrastructure. The missing link in the
monitoring and evaluation of projects is a review of the
wider impacts of urban infrastructure procurement, or
indeed of whether community procured infrastructure
actually meets users’ needs and expectations. Thus a
knowledge gap has been identified in terms of ‘how to’
trace the wider effects of urban infrastructure procurement
at the neighbourhood level. This paper proposes
participatory impact assessment as a tool for development
professionals interested in exploring the changes brought
about by an infrastructure procurement project, in the
broader social, political and economic context in which
the project is implemented.
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SOHAIL, M. and BALDWIN, A.N., 2003. Urban infrastructure procurement in low-income countries. Proceedings of ICE, Engineering Sustainability, 156 (2), pp. 87-93Publisher
© Thomas Telford PublishingPublication date
2003Notes
This article was published in the journal, Proceedings of ICE, Engineering Sustainability [© Thomas Telford Publishing] and is also available at: http://www.thomastelford.com/journals/ISSN
1478-4629;1751-7680Language
- en
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