Avoid Duplication For Resource Efficiency

This author had an opportunity to interact with provincial assembly members and policy makers across the country in the east and the west recently where the tendencies to create parallel agencies and duplication of work was singled out as one of the major cause of resource wastage and inefficiency across the tiers of the government. Take, for example, the case of the health sector where public health offices and local government health units feud and flex their muscles over their mandates and functional domains that do allegedly overlap against each other. Practically, they fail to collaborate and implement respective actions to produce effective results in delivering health services at the local level.