nevertheless to work efficiently decentralised governments need to ensure some basic conditions are met for effective decision making for example if a system places most of the decision making responsibility at the levels of the locality and its schools it not only needs to ensure financial and technical resources but also must provide adequate capacity building for school leaders teachers and local administrations to respond appropriately adequate support for struggling schools is essential highachieving systems establish the right balance between local initiative and central efforts of improvement yet this has also led to dispersion of responsibility and limited capacity for delivery it seems that the different responsibilities of counties municipalities and schools are not clearly defined