The contribution in personnel and training which the local authorities of developed countries can make to local government in Africa

Abstract

There is hardly a country in Africa today that does not have some type of training programme for public officials, but few offer training designed to meet the needs of local government. The urgent needs of central government, combined with the attractions of serving in a national make it difficult for local authorities to recruit personnel with an adequate basic education to say nothing of the technical and administrative skills required to run the most essential services a community required. In many of the countries of Africa today systems of decentralization are being elaborated and more needs to be known about what has been done in other countries.