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Who We Are

The Municipal Services Project is an inter-disciplinary project made up of academics, labour unions, non-governmental organizations, social movements and activists from around the globe.  The project is guided by a Steering Committee, made up of representatives from project partners and coordinated by the project co-directors, David McDonald (Queen’s University, Canada) and Greg Ruiters (Rhodes University, South Africa).

Project Partners

The Institute for Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University

The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) is an inter-disciplinary research centre based at Rhodes University, South Africa.  It is involved in a wide range of socio-economic research in southern and eastern Africa.

Rhodes University
PO Box 94
Grahamstown 6140
South Africa

  • Dr Greg Ruiters, Co-Director of the MSP
    email: g.ruiters@ru.ac.za
    tel: +27 (0) 46-603-8551
    fax: +27 (0) 46-622-3948
  • Julie Borland, Project Manager
    email: j.borland@ru.ac.za
    tel: + 27 (0) 46-603-8937

Southern African Research Centre, Queen’s University

The Southern African Research Centre (SARC) is a focal point within Canada for research and international development programs focused on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The overall aim of SARC is to contribute to regional cooperation and development in Southern Africa through basic research, training and capacity building, the delivery of Canadian expertise and policy inputs; and the planning and development of academic and applied research and development projects.

Queen's University
152 Albert Street
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada

  • Dr David McDonald, Co-Director of the MSP
    Phone: + (613) 533-6962
    Fax: + (613) 533-2986
    email: dm23@queensu.ca
  • Amanda Wilson, Website and Publications Coordinator
    email: mspadmin@queensu.ca

Focus on the Global South

Focus on the Global South (Focus) is a non-governmental organization with twenty staff working in Thailand, the Philippines and India. Focus was established in Bangkok in 1995 and is affiliated with the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute.  Focus combines policy research, advocacy, activism and grassroots capacity building in order to generate critical analysis and encourage debates on national and international policies related to corporate-led globalization, neo-liberalism and militarization.

  • Jenina Joy Chavez
    Coordinator, Focus on the Global South Philippines
    #19 Maginhawa Street
    UP Village, Dilman
    Quezon City, Philippines
    email: j.chavez@focusweb.org
  • Meena Menon
    Coordinator, Focus on the Global South India Programme
    A-210 Kailash Apartments
    Juhu Church Road, Juhu
    Mumbai 400 049, India
    email: meenamen@gmail.com

Regional Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios (CESU)

The Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios (CESU) is a multidisciplinary research center at the University Mayor San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia.  Its mandate is to conduct research on pressing current issues and to provide research training and capacity building for graduate students.  Research themes are multidisciplinary in character and organized around the following key themes: environment, economics, planning, legal and political studies, and development.  The Center organizes seminars, courses and conferences to discuss topical issues, and disseminates its intellectual production through books and a semi-annual magazine.

Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios (CESU),
University Mayor San Simón,
Cochabamba, Bolivia

Africa Water Network

Africa Water Network (AWN) is a collective of water workers and activists in Africa working towards equitable access to water for all through active campaigns against policies of commercialization.  The AWN is committed to fighting against all forms of water privatisation, resisting prepaid water meters, and recognizing water as a human right. To achieve this they promote alternatives to commercialization and public investment in water and sanitation services.

C/O Civic Response
37 New Town Loop
D.T.D Accra-North, Ghana

  • Al-hassan Adam - Coordinator of AWN                                                                                                       Tel: +233-21248745 or +233-244208184                                                                                                                                email: alhassan.adam@gmail.com

EQUINET AFRICA

EQUINET, the Regional Network on Equity in Health in Eastern and Southern Africa, is a network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials and others within the region who have come together as an equity catalyst, to promote and realize shared values of equity and social justice in health.

Regional Network for Equity in Health in Eastern and Southern Africa (Equinet)
TARSC
47 Van Praagh Avenue
Milton Park
Harare
Zimbabwe
Phone: + 263 4 708 835
Fax: +263 4 737 220

  • Dr Rene Loewenson, Research Associate 
Email: rene@tarsc.org
  • Dr. Di McIntyre, Health Economic Unit Email: Diane.McIntyre@uct.ac.za
  • Dr Yoswa Mbulalina Dambisya, Senior Professor, Pharmacology,                                                             School of Health Sciences University of Limpopo Private Bag X1106,                                                  SOVENGA 0727, South Africa
                                                                                                                     Tel: +27 15 268 2353
 Email: yoswad@ul.ac.za or: mbulalina@yahoo.com

Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU)

PSIRU researches the privatization and restructuring of public services around the world, with a focus on water, energy, waste management, and healthcare. It produces reports and maintains an extensive database on the multinational companies involved. This core database is financed by Public Services International (PSI), the global confederation of public service trade unions.

University of Greenwich
Park Row,
Greenwich, London
UK

Red Vida - Vigilancia Interamericana para la Defensa y el Derecho al Agua (Inter-American Vigilance for the Defence and the Right to Water)

Red Vida was formed in El Salvador in August 2003 when 54 organizations from 16 countries from all over Latin America met to launch a hemispherical campaign to defend water as a public good and a fundamental human right.  The network is made up of consumers associations, womens organizations, environmentalists, labour unions, human rights activists, religious groups, indigenous and social organizations..  Red Vida seeks to strengthen civil society groups in particular by coordinating activities and sharing information on the struggle for the right to water.

  • Marcela Olivera
    Casilla 1099
    Cochabamba, Bolivia
    Email: molivera@fwwatch.org
    Cell: +591-72220216
    Of: +591-4- 4588725
    fax: +1-413-556.3474

Transnational Institute

Founded in 1974, the Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international network of activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and tomorrow, with a view to providing intellectual support to those movements concerned to steer the world in a democratic, equitable and environmentally sustainable direction.  The Water Justice project promotes participatory, public sector water as the most viable means to achieve the goal of water for all. It facilitates the creation of new regional and global networks to promote public-public co-operation in the water sector. TNI also publishes a Public Services yearbook on the impact of privatisation and experiences of public sector reform globally.

TransNational Institute
De Wittenstraat 25
1052 AK Amsterdam
The Netherlands

  • Dr Daniel Chavez
    Coordinator – New Politics Programme
    tel: + 31 20 662 66 08
    fax: + 31 20 675 71 76
    chavez@tni.org

The School of International Development and Global Studies - University of Ottawa

SIDGS conduct basic and applied research on an international scale that covers all continents and a variety of fields, such as the environment, health and education, economic policies and development aid, institutionalization of social movements (women’s groups, Aboriginal people, alter-globalist groups), armed conflicts and peacekeeping, the role of international organizations, etc.  The School contributes to the development of knowledge, research and public policy dealing with issues of international development and globalization.

University of Ottawa
550 Cumberland St, Tabaret Hall
Ottawa, Ontario   K1N 6N5
Canada

The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specializing in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. SOAS combines language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional foci.  It has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London   WC1H 0XG
UK

  • Dr Ben Fine Department of Economics
    Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4527 
    email: bf@soas.ac.uk

The People's Health Movement

The People’s Health Movement (PHM) is a global grassroots network of health workers, activists and academics concerned about the growing inequality in health over the last 25 years. The PHM advocates for Health for All, as an equitable, participatory and inter-sectoral movement and rights issue.  They also call for a complete revision of international and domestic health policies that have negatively impacted health status and systems.

PO Box 13698 Mowbray
Cape Town, South Africa 7705
Email: globalsecretariat@phmovement.org

  • Dr Amit Sengupta                                                                                                                                       People's Health Movement India   Email: ctddsf@vsnl.com

  • Dr David Sanders,                                                                                                                                            Director of School of Public Health  University of Western Cape, South Africa                Email:sandersdav5845@gmail.com