Donors and NGOs tend to select their own experts, and at most undertake formal consultation. Provincial government could again use PCCs to promote consultation between government and donors on new appointments, and on the termination of contracts of unsatisfactory experts. There are also problems with government counterparts in technical assistance projects. At the top, counterparts tend to be overstretched, while at the middle level they are often missing unless salary supplementation is available. PCCs could be the place to discuss such problems and to press for realistic supplementation, at least on a tranisitional basis.
Some projects prefer to work outside normal government structures.
Some NGOs bypass government altogether, and give no information to the provincial government. This leaves the provinces at a disadvantage. Provincial authorities could press central government for a national policy that would ensure that all projects relate in some way to government structures, and use PCCs to obtain information from all projects working in their province. At the root of most of these problems are inadequate government budgets. The provinces should press the Ministry of Economy and Finance to raise more revenue and to pay adequate salaries, and use any revenue raised in the provinces for this purpose.