Common problems in institution-building in planning, statistics and demography

Abstract

The main problems facing the institutions flow from the lack of follow up in the implementation of political decisions. namely that after pressing for the establishment of an institution and even after approving the legal documents setting up the institution concerned. many African Governments either fail to become members of the institution or if they do fail to give it adequate financial and material support. In many cases also the institutions are not as well known in Africa as they should be. The net result is that the growth of such an institution is stultified, disillusionment sets in, and the collective self-reliance of African countries is undermined.