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PSIRU Reports Report number: 2000-02-U-SA-lg.docIgoli 2002- Some worldclass questions
Author(s): David Hall
Date: February 2000
Commissioned by: SAMWU, PSI Southern Africa
Funded: PSI
Presented at: Johannesburg press conference February 2000
Published:
Notes:
Introduction 4
Restructuring through participative democracy: examples from 4 continents 5
A narrow vision 5 Igoli 2002 - limited world view 5 Restructuring through democracy 5 World view, not utopias 5
Latin America 6 Porto Alegre (Brazil) 6 CLAD 6
North America 7 Winnipeg (Canada): Unicity and participation 7 New York State (USA): management-union cooperation systems 7 Montreal, Canada: a 'vast debate' rejects water privatisation 7
Asia 8 Kerala (India): participative planning 8 Thailand: democratic planning controls 8
Europe 9 Variety of experiments 9 Malung (Sweden): trade union restructuring initiatives 9 The UK : reappraising the contracting culture 9 ♦ Ending tendering 9 ♦ Ending the ‘internal market’ 10 DfID: recommending the participatory approach 10 ♦ Corporatisation and democracy, privatisation and the poor 10 ♦ Use staff, not consultants 11 ♦ Restructuring needs years 11
Water: management contracts and accountability 12
Privatisation by contract 12
Privatisation by management contracts: international problems 12 Problems with management contracts: international experience 12 Puerto Rico: managed by Vivendi 1995-1999 12 ♦ Sucessful for the company 13 ♦ 'Deficiencies in maintenance, repair, administration, operation and finance' 13 ♦ Deficit increases, government subsidies rise, under private management 13 ♦ Inequality 13 ♦ Environmental damage 13 ♦ ’A political slogan to solve everything’ 13 Trinidad: deficit increases under private management 14 ♦ Severn Trent go home 14 Budapest 15 Cartagena 15