Public governance for sound investment in Botswana

Botswana has undertaken significant effort in the field of public governance, and is upheld as a model and benchmark for many developing countries in this regard. To date Botswana has quite successfully avoided the “natural resource curse” at stake in its diamond revenue exploitation. Nonetheless corruption has become more of a concern since the early 1990s, with the emergence of several corruption scandals in the country. This chapter evaluates Botswana’s progress since then, in terms of developing a comprehensive anti-corruption framework guided by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC). Reforms along other dimensions of public governance, such as regulation of civil service performance within the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM), public consultation, and co-ordination of the country’s regulatory framework for reducing administrative barriers to investment, are also described here. The regulatory frameworks for procurement and privatization, as overseen by PPADB and PEEPA, are also briefly reviewed in terms of their transparency and clarity – and further expanded upon in .