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Reforming Public Services

    Osborne's airbrushed co-op policy
    Hilary Wainwright

    For all the Tories' fine talk of empowered workers, their plans would only undermine the public sector's democratic rebirth.

    What are the promising new models of democratic participation?
    Hilary Wainwright

    The institutions that are supposed to reproduce daily life are incapable of acting on behalf of the people any more, so we need to produce our own institutional alternatives based on micro-experiments and universal values.

    Rocking the system
    Hilary Wainwright

    A campaign is mounting for the remutualisation of Northern Rock, the bank whose collapse heralded the financial crisis. A community-owned bank would serve wider social needs, rather than private profits.

    Water: a common good, public management, and alternatives
    TNI

    Water justice activists gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia in August 2008
    to envision just and sustainable models of water stewardship and to
    build alliances that will bring these visions to fruition. A compelling
    visual insight into a dynamic international movement building...

    Writing on Water
    TNI

    Inspiring video on the experience of the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board which has broken down barriers between communities and engineers, and is pioneering a model of effective, democratic, accountable public water services.

    Reforming public water services
    Satoko Kishimoto

    Q and As on why reforming public water services is the best way to deliver clean water to all.

    Key to economic recovery lies in unlocking workers' creativity
    Hilary Wainwright

    The future of our public services will be as central to the next election as the future of the economy. The experience of Newcastle City Council shows that most political party leaders are wrong when they believe the solution lies in further competition and outsourcing.

    Public spending, public control
    Hilary Wainwright

    Local experiments in public reform are more democratic and cost-effective than the government's centralised bailouts

    Changing the flow
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    Twelve brief interviews with water activists from Latin America as well
    as declarations from a historic gathering in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in
    August, 2008

    Public-public partnerships (PUPs) in water
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    Satoko Kishimoto
    Philippe Terhorst
     David Hall, Emanuele Lobina, Violeta Corral, Olivier Hoedeman, Martin Pigeon

    Out of sight of many global policy-makers, a growing number of public sector water companies have been engaged, in a great variety of ways, in helping others develop the capacity to be effective and accountable public services.

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