Someone asked me how can the boards or authorities I proposed earlier make money.
The answer is that the boards or authorities can make money by first establishing institutes that shall not only offer training but research and consultancy as well to Tanzanians and foreigners in their areas of expertise.
Of course, they shall start first by offering their services to existing ministries and other local institutions but later expand to offer similar services beyond the borders.
That is to say the institutes will position themselves as both regional and international centres in training, research and consultancy.
Essentially, the staff in each authority will be both administrators and academics in their areas of operations. In this way, theory will continously be tested practically than the way things are now whereby we test a theory once and apply it most oftenly wrongly with disastrous results.
Issues that had to follow cumbersome bureaucratic procedures will now be dealt by teams of experts comprised of professors, doctors,lelctures and their students. Most of the research done here will be applied research with the target of practically solving national problems falling under the authorities.
Starting with our own institutions we should be able to build competency and expertise in the issues at hand and be in a position to attract regional and international clients in a few years time.
Of course, at the beginning these will be considered as cost centre.
The problem with Tanzanians is that they seem to act as if the whiteman, Japanese and Chinese have finnished researching and innovating things and that they cannot come up with any new thing of their own. This is wrong. This attitude must go. We have the intelligence and capacity not only to improve existing technology but surprisingly coming up with noveau ideas, prodcess and products that can help the world become a better place for all of us.
1. Institute of Governance and Public Service Management,
2. Institute of Regional Integration and International Cooperation,
3. Institute of Regional Administration and Local Government,
4. Institute of Parliamentary Science and Democratization Strategies,
5. Institute of Water, Irrigation and Environment studies,
6. Institute of Infrastructure Engineering, Science and Technological Studies,
7. Institute of information and Communication Technology,
8. Institute of Justice and Constitutional Affairs,
9. Institute of Culure, national language and vernacular development,
10. Institute of Sports Development and Entertainment,
11. Institute of Women Participation Studies,
12. Institute of Children care and development,
13. Institute of Care, Assistance and Protection for the Aged,
14. Institute of Local Commerce and Marketing,
15. Institute of Food Science and Security,
16. Institute of Energy and Fuel Studies,
17. Institute of Performance Management,
18. Institute of Human and Financial Resources studies,
19. Institute of Ombudsman, Arbitrators and Negotiators,
In their totality, these agencies or authorities or boards will go a long way in giving meat to the initial skeleton structure.
Of course each institute will not be established without prior strategic planning and formulation of requisite vision and mission.
As the institutes grow so will the boards, authorities or agencies too.
Over time Wealth creation ministries, service provision ministries and strategically placed ministries and agencies shall be facilitated in solving various problems confronting Tanzanians.
We shall have a working, in constant motion result-oriented, and easily appraised government machinery than has hitherto been the case.
When other developing countries will be knocking on our door asking for help in training their human resource in the same things we shall be already among the middle income countries and talking completely a different language.
The answer is that the boards or authorities can make money by first establishing institutes that shall not only offer training but research and consultancy as well to Tanzanians and foreigners in their areas of expertise.
Of course, they shall start first by offering their services to existing ministries and other local institutions but later expand to offer similar services beyond the borders.
That is to say the institutes will position themselves as both regional and international centres in training, research and consultancy.
Essentially, the staff in each authority will be both administrators and academics in their areas of operations. In this way, theory will continously be tested practically than the way things are now whereby we test a theory once and apply it most oftenly wrongly with disastrous results.
Issues that had to follow cumbersome bureaucratic procedures will now be dealt by teams of experts comprised of professors, doctors,lelctures and their students. Most of the research done here will be applied research with the target of practically solving national problems falling under the authorities.
Starting with our own institutions we should be able to build competency and expertise in the issues at hand and be in a position to attract regional and international clients in a few years time.
Of course, at the beginning these will be considered as cost centre.
The problem with Tanzanians is that they seem to act as if the whiteman, Japanese and Chinese have finnished researching and innovating things and that they cannot come up with any new thing of their own. This is wrong. This attitude must go. We have the intelligence and capacity not only to improve existing technology but surprisingly coming up with noveau ideas, prodcess and products that can help the world become a better place for all of us.
1. Institute of Governance and Public Service Management,
2. Institute of Regional Integration and International Cooperation,
3. Institute of Regional Administration and Local Government,
4. Institute of Parliamentary Science and Democratization Strategies,
5. Institute of Water, Irrigation and Environment studies,
6. Institute of Infrastructure Engineering, Science and Technological Studies,
7. Institute of information and Communication Technology,
8. Institute of Justice and Constitutional Affairs,
9. Institute of Culure, national language and vernacular development,
10. Institute of Sports Development and Entertainment,
11. Institute of Women Participation Studies,
12. Institute of Children care and development,
13. Institute of Care, Assistance and Protection for the Aged,
14. Institute of Local Commerce and Marketing,
15. Institute of Food Science and Security,
16. Institute of Energy and Fuel Studies,
17. Institute of Performance Management,
18. Institute of Human and Financial Resources studies,
19. Institute of Ombudsman, Arbitrators and Negotiators,
In their totality, these agencies or authorities or boards will go a long way in giving meat to the initial skeleton structure.
Of course each institute will not be established without prior strategic planning and formulation of requisite vision and mission.
As the institutes grow so will the boards, authorities or agencies too.
Over time Wealth creation ministries, service provision ministries and strategically placed ministries and agencies shall be facilitated in solving various problems confronting Tanzanians.
We shall have a working, in constant motion result-oriented, and easily appraised government machinery than has hitherto been the case.
When other developing countries will be knocking on our door asking for help in training their human resource in the same things we shall be already among the middle income countries and talking completely a different language.