By Keith Miller

Local government reform must be implemented.  Such reforms are to ensure that the local government system is driven by a community initiative and orientation. Under this new local government, the citizen is to be the prime motivating force in making choices about development and management of local government affairs. With this model of a community/citizen driven system of local government, local government provides the framework, and acts as a facilitator in ensuring development. But can the existing local government system meet this challenge? The answer, I think, is no, and consequently we must turn to the issue of capacity-building. Capacity-building becomes necessary…..