Bimal Jalan says that the Planning Commission is the only body which has inter-ministry knowledge and believes it has a very important role at the central level.
The review board also believes that any discussion of the charter's zero-tolerance provision would be incomplete without noting that there is no equivalent policy of zero tolerance for bishops or provincials who allowed a predator priest to remain in or return to ministry despite knowledge of the risks.
Taking into account the redeployment of the administration, national capacity building, such as support to different ministries to strengthen knowledge and experience and ensure sustainability is prioritized.
Counterparts at central and state-level planning departments (Ministry of Finance and Planning and partner sector ministries) have improved knowledge on child, youth and gender-sensitive planning of and reporting on social development programmes and MDGs.
The American civilian authority under General Jay Garner, which is supposed to advise Iraqi ministers, has little local knowledge, no ministries to use, and no Iraqi counterparts to advise.Mr Garner has pointed to Kurdistan, whose 4m people have grown accustomed to freedom and where statues of poets long since replaced bronze Saddams, as a model for the rest of the country.
From the interviews it can be concluded that the user role is mostly undertaken by local actors such as municipal health services, municipalities, and citizens, but also by ministries as they use knowledge for policy development.
However, limitations to this initiative proved considerable - personnel and time constraints within government, a lack of business knowledge within the Ministry, and an absence of links to other Ministries with an industry focus, and of links to industry itself.
Yet visitors to the Vatican "foreign ministry" are amazed by the knowledge they find.
"It is common knowledge that the ministry is responsible for generating maximum profits while supervising itself," Mr. Zhang said.
However, the transport ministry said it had "no knowledge" of the devices being used, and there was no mention of VW.
