The Power of Public-Private Partnership: Coming Together for Secondary Education in Africa

This paper reviews the experiences with PPP around the world, discusses the challenges faced by countries in SSA and identifies promising practices that countries may wish to consider as they design polices to accelerate the expansion of access to secondary education. Most important are the recognition of the role and strengths of different partners, the creation of manage their relation the private sector, helping private sector providers improve the quality of the instruction, establishing clear policies for the involvement of parents and communities and targeting public funding to ensure that poor children can access public and private schools