Hundreds of major public projects across Botswana remain stalled, threatening the nation’s socio-economic progress, a recent African Development Bank (AfDB)-funded report has revealed. The Public Investment Programme Implementation Diagnosis and Skills Capacity Assessment points to deep-rooted systemic failures in planning, execution, and skills management, exposing long-standing weaknesses in the management of the country’s public investment programmes (PIP).
The report says an assessment of the Botswana public expenditure by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2017 revealed that 37 percent of public expenditure on infrastructure goes to waste.
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