DEVOLUTION DEBATECLEARLY, President Hakainde Hichilema does not quite understand why anybody would question the principle of devolution where resources are transferred from centralisedplanning and implementation from Lusaka to the constituencies where ordinary people will participate directly in the allocation and utilisation of the funds.Any public policy initiative must satisfy both, systemic as well as systematic properties. Systemic integrity deals with overall legal and structural harmony while systematic coherence deals with institutional capacity.It is imperative therefore that the new Constituency Development Fund (CDF) must exhibit structural, financial and human capital competence if it is to achieve successful project implementation. However this is only possible if vertical and lateral integration has been achieved.In essence the new CDF must have very clear goals and an equally clear mode of operation.Our counterparts in Kenya enshrined devolution in their constitution in 2010. Central Government has devolved very specific powers, including income generation capacity to enable the 47 local Government institutions called counties, […]
DEVOLUTION DEBATE
