And it can be fun! That's the point of this talk it needn't be sterile. It needn't be bureaucratically untenable.

Complying with bureaucratically established and quantifiable goals has in most cases led to a shift from active participation to participation of a passive or merely consultative nature.

Although it has been agreed that the Millennium Development Goals are the cornerstone of most national development and that they call for a more holistic approach to development, the institutional arrangements of planning, budgeting and implementing development continue to remain either sectorally oriented or bureaucratically driven.