Zenufa blames the lack of progress on a culture of allowances leading to a situation where officials are away from the office instead of doing their job.
Shame that allowances are now such an obstacle to doing business that one of the most influential financial newspapers in the world feels the need to expose Tanzania. Maybe efforts to attract foreign investors by projecting a positive image abroad could start at home?
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Shame that allowances are now such an obstacle to doing business that one of the most influential financial newspapers in the world feels the need to expose Tanzania. Maybe efforts to attract foreign investors by projecting a positive image abroad could start at home?
For the full article go to:
Gloria
interesting blog and an important issue. Our Great Leader promised to address this in his first year and commissioned a report from Mr Ntukamazina which seems to have been quietly shelved. Why get rid of a system that underpins the patronage that our state rests on?
ReplyDeletePaying civil servants well and holding them accountable for performance makes sense. The point of the Rajani essay and the FT article is that the allowances create a warped incentive-- instead of performing their core functions the civil servants run off to workshops all the time -- and work doesnt get done.
ReplyDeletewell it all starts from development aid, where performance is measured by flow of $$s...resulting in meetings, sitting allowances, training workshops...'quick wins' as they say...a practice that does not favour positive change, does not support the much needed systemic changes that take time
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