V. STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS Surrounding the community’s social and political assets are the governmental and civil society systems that extend upward to the district, provincial and national levels. These systems are composed of structures at each level, be they service providing structures such as schools and health centers or line ministry offices, and the system is top down with serious communication problems in both directions. Resource allocation is ineffective and even though districts receive clear policy guidance, they are unable to fully implement because they do not receive necessary funding and human resources. The existence of multiple systems: governmental, non-governmental organization (NGO), Church, Community Based Organization, etc., means that the quality of assistance is diminished. In theory there should be one system that all stakeholders contribute to that is directed and supervised by the government. However, since the government cannot project its supervisory and coordinating function, most times each civil society actor will create a parallel system. This leads to duplication of efforts and lack of coverage. It appears that the provincial level oftentimes is not involved in civil society programs since there is a tendency for coordination to be done with the national and district levels. The provincial offices do collect data and pass it back to the national level as well as control limited resource allocation. To better understand the dynamics at play in these systems, this section will focus on sectoral areas and attempt to make the relevant connections.
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