Poor project implementation: Has gov’t finally found the cure? :: Mmegi Online

President Mokgweetsi Masisi will spend part of his State of the Nation Address (SONA) next week speaking on the development manager model the government hopes will shake the monkey off the back of project implementation. Has the cure been found? Mmegi Staffer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

Transport and Public Works minister, Eric Molale, is confident that the answer to the government’s long-running project implementation woes has arrived. The veteran civil servant has more than four decades in the public service, climbing the ranks from the district level administration to becoming an economic planner, later the longest-serving Permanent Secretary to the President and finally several ministerial appointments.

Poor project implementation far precedes Molale’s entry into the public service and in fact, has arguably been the most important driver of public finance wastage and spending inefficiencies. Implementation challenges have dogged government for decades, costing the country billions of pula in direct and opportunity costs, but more importantly, denying citizens the services and forestalling their economic aspirations.

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