Yes, it needs to happen. Working in silos really sucks. Working at NAN, we undertook a major NAN women's development project, and we had four different funders to do what we had to do. We achieved our goals and what not. However, the report writing and the travelling to get to the communities and reporting back to the women's council and the chiefs and assembly was absolutely crazy. I was stuck in the bureaucracy most of the time, instead of spending my time in the communities working with the women. So integration, working together--all levels of government really need to do that.
On January 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.