Eric Cartman
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- May 21, 2009
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The thread is about result orientation, but as yet I havent encountered a post that highlights what exactly needs to be aimed or what are our priorities or how do we even measure success if we are after results. In a country where there are multiple-deprivation where do you start, with what resource, targeting whom and the benefits of those results nationally and towards a better economical prospects.
Even the millennium goal had clear guidelines and targets on what will be considered success or failure. A part from point eight of the millennium goals which is pretty much an IMF hands on directive and aims to plunder our resources. The rest had clear explanations of what they aim to achieve, targets sated through ratios and percentages.
If we are to fail on these targets or get poor results our administration is entirely to blame and not the external factors, for instance if more women were required to be empowered and participate in our democracy houses; its not the IMF that told us to select women MPs by allegiance instead of what they stood for in the society and their abilities to fight for their stances, it is not the IMF that told us to build school without enough teachers or offer our student second class curriculum.
On the outset it appears there are no serious ambitions from the current administration to fight poverty or drawing up a serious escape route from our woes. For instance if you look at the employment sector the major employees are the government and service sectors considering our manufacturing is almost none existence it means the economy is losing the income of these people by our love of importation and creating huge unemployment in the nation.
At the same time the government is having to spend much of the budget in administration wages, therefore where is the money to invest in manufacturing going to come from or how is the government long term strategy in tackling the problem. No wonder there is no talk in this administration apart from external investors.
We are stuck in the economy which is deprived of an efficient manufacturing industry (to tackle unemployment, a small purchasing power, low productivity, etc), poor welfare services (as less funds are collected in taxes the government is unable to offer quality health care and people are having to make do-s in poor housings, etc), a desperate population in poverty (with no jobs, untrained and lacking skills for employment no wonder we are importing labor) and a weak agricultural system due to poor demands in raw material from our economy.
Therefore if we want to see results first we have got to have a clear sense of direction by drawing up an economical plan that aim to tackle the main four problems by stages, open up a gate for a pluralism society and functional pressure bodies to fight the courses on behalf of groups interests, get the ministries checked, and a collaborations between ministries and responsible bodies in coining up policies. There after we know exactly where to point the finger if things ever go wrong, of course none of that is possible if we cant make people accounted for their mistakes.
Even the millennium goal had clear guidelines and targets on what will be considered success or failure. A part from point eight of the millennium goals which is pretty much an IMF hands on directive and aims to plunder our resources. The rest had clear explanations of what they aim to achieve, targets sated through ratios and percentages.
If we are to fail on these targets or get poor results our administration is entirely to blame and not the external factors, for instance if more women were required to be empowered and participate in our democracy houses; its not the IMF that told us to select women MPs by allegiance instead of what they stood for in the society and their abilities to fight for their stances, it is not the IMF that told us to build school without enough teachers or offer our student second class curriculum.
On the outset it appears there are no serious ambitions from the current administration to fight poverty or drawing up a serious escape route from our woes. For instance if you look at the employment sector the major employees are the government and service sectors considering our manufacturing is almost none existence it means the economy is losing the income of these people by our love of importation and creating huge unemployment in the nation.
At the same time the government is having to spend much of the budget in administration wages, therefore where is the money to invest in manufacturing going to come from or how is the government long term strategy in tackling the problem. No wonder there is no talk in this administration apart from external investors.
We are stuck in the economy which is deprived of an efficient manufacturing industry (to tackle unemployment, a small purchasing power, low productivity, etc), poor welfare services (as less funds are collected in taxes the government is unable to offer quality health care and people are having to make do-s in poor housings, etc), a desperate population in poverty (with no jobs, untrained and lacking skills for employment no wonder we are importing labor) and a weak agricultural system due to poor demands in raw material from our economy.
Therefore if we want to see results first we have got to have a clear sense of direction by drawing up an economical plan that aim to tackle the main four problems by stages, open up a gate for a pluralism society and functional pressure bodies to fight the courses on behalf of groups interests, get the ministries checked, and a collaborations between ministries and responsible bodies in coining up policies. There after we know exactly where to point the finger if things ever go wrong, of course none of that is possible if we cant make people accounted for their mistakes.