TY - MANSCPT AU - Paulos Chanie AU - Mihyo,Paschal B. ED - Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa. TI - Thirty years of public sector reforms in Africa: selected country experiences SN - 9789970252329 (pbk) AV - JQ1875 .T47 2013 U1 - AFR 320.963 Thi 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Kampala, Uganda PB - Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Fountain Publishers KW - Public administration KW - Africa N1 - Includes biographical references and index; The trajectory of public administration in Africa: Background -- Reforms without change: Kenya's unending "War on Corruption" -- Public sector reform amid adversity and uncertainty: The Zimbabwean experience -- The privatization and deregulation of Dar es Salaam's public transport, 1983-2010: Outcomes and dilemmas -- Integrating all stakeholders: Health service governance in Addis Ababa -- The ups and downs of business process re-engineering (BPR): A tale of two offices in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia -- The inside story of outsourcing: contract management capacity in Tanzania -- E-Government for good governance: The case of Tanzania -- The Quantity-Quality balance: reforms in university education in Uganda -- Making outcomes matter: programme-based budgeting for a better public sector in Mauritius -- Good intentions, poor results: reforming the academic organizational structureand performance management system at the University of Botswana -- Big growth and big mistakes: Telecoms in South Africa -- The performance of decentralization and public sector accountability reforms in Uganda -- Contracting out public services to private agents: Lessons from the management of local government contracts in Ghana -- Lessons and conclusions ER -