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FACULTY OF ECONOMIC &
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
(NAMIBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL)

DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
CANDIDATE: KAUMBI Heinrich U

CURRICULUM VITAE

Heinrich Uazuva Kaumbi was born in Windhoek, Namibia, and matriculated from the
Döbra RC High School in the Khomas region of Namibia. His qualifications include a
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (University of the Witwatersrand, WITS, South
Africa); Bachelor of Commerce (University of South Africa); and a Master of Science
in Water Resources Engineering and Management (University of Zimbabwe). His professional career includes working as
a Water Engineer with the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development (Rural Water Supply); Section Engineer
for Water & Waste Water Planning & Design with the City of Windhoek; Senior Manager for Technical Services & Property
Management with the National Housing Enterprise (NHE); and currently as a Business Developer with Afrikuumba (Pty) Ltd.
His research interest focus is on Public Private Partnerships (PPP), performance measurement, monitoring and evaluation,
critical success factors (CSFs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).

CANDIDATE’S DISSERTATION

EXPLORING CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS DELIVERING AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE
NATIONAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OF NAMIBIA

The doctoral study was undertaken and completed under the supervision of Prof. Alex Kanyimba (University of Namibia)
as Main-Supervisor and Dr. Victor Katoma (Namibia University of Science and Technology) as Co-Supervisor.

Rapid urbanisation and other factors in many parts of the world have created a crisis where public authorities cannot
cope with the provision of basic urban infrastructure, including housing, resulting in a large infrastructure gap. In Namibia,
the urbanisation rate increased from 27.1% in 1991 to 54.1% in 2016, with about 228 482 urban households living in informal
settlements in 2018. The National Housing Enterprise (NHE) has a legal mandate to provide houses to Namibians, but it
is experiencing financial challenges that make it almost impossible for it to reduce the housing backlog in a significant
manner using own resources. Thus, NHE has been leveraging private sector resources through Public Private Partnerships
(PPPs) since 2010. The objective of this research was thus to explore factors in which favourable results are necessary
to ensure the successful implementation of these PPPs to deliver affordable housing; these are critical success factors
(CSFs).

The literature review enabled the researcher to derive a conceptual framework for the study, based on a synthesis of
several PPP theories, such as governance theory, market efficiency, transaction cost economics, resource-based theory
and risk allocation theory, which deal mostly with the rationale for PPPs. CSF theories and frameworks were incorporated
into the conceptual framework. The Namibian PPP policy, legal and institutional framework and experiences provided
a national context. The study employed a constructivist research paradigm, relativist ontology, subjectivist epistemology
and a qualitative approach, and a case study research design to generate in-depth insights into the affordable housing
PPPs of NHE. Grounded theory was the underpinning research strategy. Purposive and theoretical sampling were used,
and with the aid of an interview guide, 4 NHE executives were interviewed, as well as managers of 3 private companies,
1 strategic executive at the City of Windhoek, and a representative of a community-based organisation. The interviews
were transcribed and coded, and subsequently analysed with the help of Atlas.ti 8 software.

The study found that the increasing housing backlog and the lack of financial resources were the rationale for NHE
implementing three PPP typologies: partnerships with commercial banks, bridging finance PPPs, and turnkey PPPs. Eight
CSFs were found for this study, namely customer engagement, affordability, serviced land availability, completeness of
contract, speedy statutory approvals, competence, timely payments and growth in the NHE loan book. Consequently,
a CSF value chain framework was derived as the answer to the main research question; this is the original contribution to
the PPP and CSF body of knowledge.

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