another is the highly sectoral organisation of the public administration system in which water resources management responsibilities are scattered amongst a plethora of government departments and statutory authorities that restricts the systematic application of these official policies the dichotomisation of policies and fragmentation of responsibility is clear the ema also noted that there is no coordinating mechanism to ensure that all relevant agencies are operating consistently with these policies or to make use of synergies or manage tradeoffs among their objectives finally the discordance in policy and action arises from the nonexistence of practice in the public sector to monitor and evaluate outcomes and impacts of activities on water resources management