As parcerias público − privadas em Moçambique: o caso da Estrada Circular de Maputo, sob gestão da Concessionária Revimo

Abstract

This end-of-course paper deals with public-private partnerships, specifically the case of the Maputo ring road, which is managed by the REVIMO concessionaire. It is well known that the public sector does not always have sufficient financial resources to meet the costs of building, rehabilitating, maintaining and restructuring infrastructure, so, given that most of the time it is the private sector that has the financial resources, the two parties end up joining forces and opting for public-private partnerships. As it happens, the state creates an entity to act as a regulator and it ends up not fulfilling one of its duties to supervise and monitor PPP contracts. And because of this, there are times when citizens affected by the infrastructure built feel they have been harmed. Therefore, despite the fact that Maputo's ring road was built with funds from the state, after its construction, several errors were found in some sections of the road, such as the lack of drainage ditches, lack of lighting, lack of road signs and lack of bridges, which ended up creating several problems for road users and the population living around the ring roads. Since the state doesn't have the financial and technical means to maintain and fix the mistakes, it has opted for a public-private partnership. The Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, representing the state, signed a management contract with REVIMO. With the signing of this contract, the population and road users hoped to see the problems solved, but this is not the case. They claim that since the contract was signed and implemented, nothing has been done by REVIMO to solve the problem.