An exploration of franchising partnerships for theoperation and maintenance of water services infrastructure

摘要

South African research has found that franchising partnerships could alleviate and address manychallenges in the operation and maintenance of water services infrastructure. Franchising bringsappropriate training to those on-site, and also offers backup off-site skills together with the incentive toboth call for those skills and to make them available. Findings indicate that many opportunities lie in thefranchising of suitable elements in the water services value chain, and a selection of these has beenmodelled on paper. The findings of this research, and that from the continuation of this programme overthe next three years, could well be applicable in other nations.