Informal settlement with makeshift electricity provision in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa ©David McDonald

Celebrating public alternatives

We develop new concepts and research methods in the study of alternatives to privatization to advocate for energy, health and water policy change.

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A specialized AySA team is removing an old valve in Rivadavia y Libertad, Barrio de congreso, Buenos Aires, August 2012 © AySA
Water remunicipalisation works!

After the failures of privatization, municipalities worldwide are taking back public control of their water systems and democratizing services

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Jan Swasthya Abhiyan convention calls for universalisation of health care for all © RajeevChaudhury, 2012
Questioning corporatization

Researchers, activists and practitioners are asking whether public services can run on private sector principles. Is ‘new public management’ a trap?

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May 9, 2013
Call for papers & panels. Present original research on alternatives to privatization and the provision of public services in the global South, to be presented at an international conference from April 13-16, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa.
April 23, 2013
Gender justice and public water for all: Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Our new paper maps gender-water relations and unearths women’s struggles for access to clean and safe water in Korail slum. A majority desire public water because it holds the promise of access for all at a more affordable cost, underscoring the importance of integrating a gendered perspective in debates on alternatives to privatization.
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April 16, 2013
Gaining public ownership of electricity in Berlin. Berliner Energietisch is organizing a referendum initiative to remunicipalize the electricity grid and create a public, democratic energy utility in Berlin, Germany. Its slogan “ecological-social-democratic” names the three key principles behind the campaign to buy back the city’s electricity grid from the current owner, a subsidiary of Swedish corporatized public energy company Vattenfall.
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