MARK BARNES: Building capacity within the state is hard but is worth it
Getting other people to do what you could learn to do yourself is destroying the foundations our children need
01 August 2024 - 05:00
The government of national unity (GNU) brings with it the opportunity to revisit and rewrite so many of the ways that “things are done around here” within the government. Not least of these is a renewed, and obviously necessary, focus on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) — on structure, reporting, ownership, funding, management ... the works.
The solution will need to pivot around various axes and involve some directional choices, such as government versus the private sector, local versus central, and insourcing versus outsourcing...
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