Developing Institution: a Guide for Sub-Sahara Africa: Organizational Management

Dr. Q. Somah Paygai Sr.

May 2015 · Xlibris Corporation

About this ebook

This study is an effort to improve management operations in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It is prompted by the appearance of a crisis in management development brought on by the difficult financial situation in that most countriesparticularly Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guineafound themselves by the 1990s. Growth and change in the management systems of Sub-Saharan Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea) had been achieved during the 1970s and 1980s, but serious problems had arisen in the 1990s regarding how to sustain these expanded systems of management and training. In part, the problems were financial, and in part, they were institutional, but in the final analysis, the failure lay in resource management and planning. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ought to understand that what is needed is not yet another set of external recommendations to the countries on how to chart their development. Rather, there is a need for an understanding of why these countries, after decades of bank lending and other external aid, still appeared to be in need of external participation in the analysis of their problems.

About the author

Queh Somah Paygai Sr., PhD, the author, was born on July 6, 1958, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. Both of his parents hailed from Grand Bassa County, Liberia. His background includes serving as chairman of the National Investment Commission of the Republic of Liberia (1998–2003). He was responsible to promote, encourage, and coordinate all investment activities in Liberia and provided general policy guidance in the formulation of plans for the review, evaluation, and collaboration with relevant ministries and agencies of government of all project proposals. He served as member of the Economic Management Advisory Team for the Republic of Liberia and developed a Venture Capital Scheme designed to create income-generating activities for deserving Liberian entrepreneurs and individuals with talents and business ideas but lacked capital and opportunity to participate in main stream economic activities. Dr. Paygai served as associate professor / director of planning and institutional development (1998–2008) at the University of Liberia, College of Business and Public Administration, in the Department of Management. He has a master’s degree in educational management at Cambridge College (1991), Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the board of directors (2002–2003) at the Liberia Telecommunication Corporation, Republic of Liberia. He was also a member of the Liberia Government Official Delegation to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Transformation to the African Union (AU) in Durban, South Africa (June 28–July 10, 2002). He was chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, Union of Liberia Associations in the Americas (ULAA), United States of America (1987–1989).