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    Effectiveness of public private partnerships in the delivery of health services in Tanzania: A reflection of the public private partnership between the ministry of health and social welfare and CCBRT
    (Mzumbe University, 2014) Edward, Erasto
    The government of Tanzania recognized that it has the role to facilitate the private sector and other economic agents to actively and effectively invest in productive and commercial activities in order to accelerate economic growth and development and this would be achieved through putting favorable policies in place, provision of a conducive environment for local and foreign investment, promotion of institutional changes conducive to the development of the private sector and this trend has seen the emergency of public private partnerships in Tanzania. The general objective of the study was to examine the barriers to effective public private partnerships in the Delivery of health services in Tanzania with a reflection of a public private partnership that exist between the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare with CCBRT Hospital. The findings of the study have indicated that Public Private Partnerships have an impact in the delivery of health services and this is equivalent to 66.7% and that the partnerships are adopted and implemented through management contracts up to 10.0%, the Public Partnership policy of 2009 guides on the adoption and implementation of public private partnerships to 29.2% and the private partnerships promote reliable source of financing for public health service delivery to 10.0%, Partnerships bring creativity and innovativeness in health service delivery and this is equivalent to 8.3%, partnerships influence satisfaction of customer needs and expectations and this is equivalent to 7.5% and that partnerships influence development of new investment opportunities and this is equivalent to 15.0% they influence maintenance of skilled manpower and this is equivalent to 12.5%. Therefore in order that the Public private partnerships influence improved delivery of health services, the public and private entities operating or implementing a Public Private Partnership in the delivery of health services should undertake effective training and development of personnel who will have the skills of negotiating the partnerships and who will understand the technical frameworks of the partnerships. Consequently the barrier of weak professionalism will relatively be addressed and the implementation of the partnership frameworks will attain its set goals and objective.