The following thesis examines the issue of water scarcity and Public-private partnerships (PPPs) build to overcome this challenge. PPPs are risky projects but beneficial when succeeding. This re-search focuses on implementing the partnerships to local communities since implementation and involving locals to the process of building partnerships are crucial factors in successful PPPs. The paper aims to examine several factors and issues behind PPPs to provide beneficial information about the partnerships. The research was made by using several databases and researches from international organizations: United Nations, World Bank and African Development Bank, because the focus area of the research is Sub-Saharan Africa. To examine the implementation practically, the paper presents two case examples: one from Ghana and other one from South Africa. Wide range of different kind of articles, books and journals were read through to find the answers to the research questions and beside the databases the research was made in libraries in Helsinki, Finland and in Krems an der Donau, Austria.
1.1 Introduction
In this section, Successful Implementation of Public-Private Partnerships to Local Communities is discussed, with relevant and recent citations. As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the aim and objectives of the study. Others are significance of the study, scope of work, research hypothesis and questions, limitation of the study and definition of terms.