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Through a brainstorming session, participants discussed emerging
trends and changes in Africa that are of importance to the MfDR.
These are outlined below;
- Increase in the Peer Review
- Introduction of open performance review mechanism
- Increase in decentralization (4)
- Increased visible role and participation of CSOs (1)
- Increasing ownership of the development by countries (6)
- Questioning of the old public sector models
- Shift from the old management models to new models- asking the
questions
- Increased dialogue with development partners (5)
- Increased use of information performance (3)
- Deepening economic integration
- Increased transparency (7)
- Demand for democracy from the citizens
- Increase of a globalised public sector (1)
- Increase in public private partnership (5)
- Moving from the private to the public sector
- Positive economic trends with more information on Africa
(3)
- Investments in human resources - increasing capacity (7)
- Improvement in community participation (5)
- Increase in the need for Defence institutions to be
accountable
- Reducing conflicts in Africa
- Rapid increase in technology (4)
- Diversity of donors and their influence (2)
- Influence of rapidly increasing populations
- Global shift in power- increasing influence of China
- The emergence of economic and political blocks that are
becoming more instrumental in development - SADC, EAC
remerging
- Increasing concern for the environment
- Improving ICTs infrastructure which allows for linkages for
organizations of similar interests
- Empowerment of women
- Emergence of new financing actors Bill Gates, China, Brazil and
India (2)
- Less emphasizes and attention on environment issues
- Armed conflicts (1)