Infrastructure and markets for social services
Governments increasingly turn to the private sector to help deliver education, housing, healthcare and other social services.
We develop innovative ways to engage private sector capital and expertise in the provision of social services. Governments around the world are facing the need to improve health services, look after ageing populations, and equip people with the training and skills they need to do their jobs. Since ongoing services are the greatest cost (not the built infrastructure), private sector delivery of social infrastructure is increasingly focused on the achievement of public service objectives that can be delivered from infrastructure—rather than the infrastructure itself. Castalia develops innovative models to deliver social services effectively, and helps private partners appraise such opportunities.
Service lines
Education PPP Training, Uruguay
Castalia trained Uruguay government officials on managing PPP contracts for education facilities. The Government of Uruguay needed to build capacity after signing the country’s first education PPP ... Read more
PPP Center for Excellence, Solomon Islands
Castalia worked with the Government of the Solomon Islands to set up a PPP Center of Excellence and pipeline of projects. The Government had identified PPPs as an important additional procurement and financing method to address the infrastructure deficit, but ... Read more
PPP Project Screening and Prioritization for Kenya
Castalia identified a set of 15 first-mover PPP projects across 6 sectors from the Government of Kenya’s existing PPP pipeline and new candidate projects. We trained government officials on PPP project preparation, evaluation, and coordination processes. Despite an improved framework ... Read more
Evaluation of Facility to Promote Health PPPs, New Zealand
Castalia assessed the effectiveness of the Pilot Health PPP Advisory Facility. International donors for the Facility wanted to know if their money was well spent ... Read more
Competition Effects of Physiotherapy Contracts, New Zealand
Castalia gave expert evidence that a new contracting model to pay physiotherapists did not breach competition law. Physiotherapists had claimed that the new contracts, which prevented them from charging patients additional out-of-pocket fees, limited competition and amounted to price-fixing ... Read more
Return on Investment from Schooling in Māori, New Zealand
Castalia calculated the social return on investment of schools teaching in Maori as well as English. Educational outcomes of Maori children in New Zealand are below the national average, and the government needed to know if increasing funding to specialist ... Read more
Review of Early Childhood Education Market, New Zealand
Castalia assessed competition and concentration in the Early Childhood Education market in New Zealand and found that the market was competitive. New Zealand’s Ministry of Education was concerned that the declining number of Early Childhood Education providers could reduce competition, ... Read more
Mombasa County Infrastructure Plan, Kenya
We developed an institutional structure and business plan for Mombasa County to efficiently deliver water supply and sanitation services. The local water service only reached 10 percent of the people, was unreliable, and financial unsustainable ... Read more
