Capacity utilization partnerships

The impact of waivers on service providers capacity to adjust to increased utilization needs to be assessed. Some evidence suggests that the introduction of waivers has created additional pressure in areas where capacity was already limited. The elimination of primary school fees has also had a large impact on the number of children going to school, and thus on the number of teachers and textbooks needed. While some countries such as Kenya have been successful in replacing lost funds, others such as Malawi have not been able to replace the lost revenues (Wilson 2006 World Bank 2007f). In Colombia, the introduction of vouchers for secondary schools placed additional stress on schools that had already reached full capacity. At that time, 1992, the secondary enrollment rate was only 75 percent overall, and as low as 55 percent for the poorest quintile of the population. The capacity constraint was overcome with a unique partnership between the private and public sectors (Braun-Munzinger 2005). ... 

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