Botswana's Implementation Problematic: A Case for a Comprehensive Audit

It is sung with regular monotones by successive presidents and Finance Ministers. Seventeen (17) years ago, the then President of the Republic of Botswana, Mr Masire in an address to Parliament revealed that "there is a growing gap between the establishment of policy and its implementation. He further noted that "the rapid growth in the formulation of policies have not been matched by the pace of implementation".

His Vice President and later his successor Mr Mogae also echoed the same sentiments in the 1992 budget speech. Since then state of the nation addresses and budget speeches have bemoaned the problem of implementation.