Strategies for Development

1. • Privatisation refers to the process of
transferring the ownership of public
enterprises to private buyers. That is, the
corporations owned by the state are turned to
private companies and given to individuals to
own.
• This is a very complex process involving the
selling of shares to individuals and groups as
well as ensuring that some of the services
provided by the government are stopped to
allow private companies to start businesses
providing those services.
PRIVATISATION OF
PARASTATALS

2.  Privatisation can promote competition which may lead to
improving efficiency and increasing productivity of enterprises
 It can increase direct citizen participation in the ownership of
national assets
 It can stimulate entrepreneurship and investment in order to
accelerate economic growth.
PRIVATISATION OF PARASTATAL CONT.

3.  Many people today often see privatisation as bad because it is
usually associated with the loss of jobs by workers because
private companies strive for profit-making and can not afford
to hire many people like the state.
 It is important, however, to state that privatisation does not
involve the government discarding or abandoning any of its
core responsibilities for the safety and welfare of its citizens.
PRIVATISATION OF PARASTATAL

4.  Citizen empowerment is the process of helping citizens to
become self-reliant through the provision of help by the
government or Non Governmental Organisations.
 It involves a process of ensuring that there is an increased
participation of citizen-owned companies in the economy.
 The government has over the years empowered Batswana
through a number of financial schemes such as the)
Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agricultural
Development (ISPAAD) and the current Citizen Entrepreneurial
Development Agency (CEDA).
 The idea behind these financial schemes is to encourage the
spirit of self reliance and to reduce dependence on the
government.
CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT AS A STRATEGY FOR
DEVELOPMENT

5.  Localisation, which is a system of giving citizens priority in
employment opportunities as well as priority in positions of
policy making and implementation, is one way of citizen
empowerment.
 Localisation often leads to expatriate workers being reduced
through non- renewal of their contracts or through a
deliberate termination of their contracts with the aim of
leaving only the locals to occupy their positions.
 It also involves giving citizen-owned companies priority when
allocating tenders for the provision of services.
LOCALISATION

6.  Empowerment in Botswana has been targeting women who have
in the past been mostly affected by unemployment, poverty and
other social problems.
 Research has shown that a large percentage of the female
population is affected by lack of employment, property and
necessary conditions for a better life.
 This is the legacy of our culture which has in the past oppressed
women and given the males preference in the allocation of Jobs
and other economic gains.
 More women are now empowered by being included in high
positions of policy making, and even in the involvement of high
politics.
 In Botswana, today we have a number of women
parliamentarians in our National Assembly, and many women
directors in various ministries. A lot more hold high positions in
the public and private sectors.
WOMEN AND PROPERTY OWNERSHIP