The politics of utility reform: a case study of the Ugandan water sector

Abstract

The global pursuit of neoliberalist reforms has been a markedly political process resulting in a variety of outcomes. Using the case of the Ugandan water sector, the authors demonstrate that this political process is most pronounced when reforms lead to organizational changes and is less evident when private institutions are introduced.

Keywords:

• Commercialization
• privatization
• public utility reforms
• Uganda
• water sector

Notes

^* The ministry became the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment in the early 1990s and then the Ministry of Water and Environment in 2007.

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Notes on contributors

Dorcas Mbuvi

Dorcas Mbuvi is a researcher at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Klaas Schwartz

Klaas Schwartz is a senior lecturer in urban water governance at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands.